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Report: Design flaw caused Genesis crash
Jun 13 2006 11:43PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A report released Tuesday blamed a design flaw for the 2004 crash of a NASA space probe carrying solar wind atoms back to Earth and criticized engineers for failing to detect the error.
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Bug that kills ash trees found in Ill.
Jun 13 2006 9:40PM (CT)
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - A pest blamed for killing millions of trees across the Midwest has reached Illinois, prompting state officials to prepare a detection and eradication plan they expect to begin within the next few weeks, the state agriculture department said Tuesday.
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Scientists to reassemble Maimonides' works
Jun 13 2006 9:40PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Scientists at a British university hope to use digital technology in reassembling some 300,000 tiny fragments of an 800-year-old Jewish philosopher's oeuvre.
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Hawking: Humans must spread out in space
Jun 13 2006 9:38PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy Earth, world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking said Tuesday.
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Museum to reunite Venus statue with head
Jun 13 2006 8:23PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - For the first time in possibly 170 years, a Roman marble statue of Venus will be reunited with its head as both are coming to the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, where conservators will piece them back together.
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Va. negotiating on ancient cypress forest
Jun 13 2006 8:09PM (CT)
COURTLAND, Va. (AP) - Virginia is in the early stages of negotiations to purchase a 40-acre forest with massive cypress trees that date back more than 1,000 years.
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Scientists progress on livers, stem cells
Jun 13 2006 7:52PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Scientists at the University of Washington are optimistic that they've made what they call meaningful progress toward learning how to repair damaged human livers with stem cells.
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Labs compete to make new nuclear bomb
Jun 13 2006 7:49PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the San Francisco Bay area and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are competing to design the nation's first new nuclear bomb in two decades.
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Space shuttle crew arrives in Florida
Jun 13 2006 7:49PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The crew of space shuttle Discovery arrived at the Kennedy Space Center Tuesday for several days of dress rehearsals in preparation for a July launch.
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S.C. scientists find new shark species
Jun 13 2006 7:47PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A new genetically distinct species of hammerhead shark, the ninth recognized species of hammerhead, has been discovered off the South Carolina coast, scientists say.
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McDonald Observatory eyes telescope sites
Jun 13 2006 7:46PM (CT)
ODESSA, Texas (AP) - Astronomers at McDonald Observatory are studying two mountaintop locations to determine the best site for a new telescope.
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Study: Polar bears may turn to cannibalism
Jun 13 2006 7:46PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea may be turning to cannibalism because longer seasons without ice keep them from getting to their natural food, a new study by American and Canadian scientists has found.
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Idaho museum to open Bigfoot exhibit
Jun 13 2006 7:46PM (CT)
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) - The director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History says it won't matter whether Bigfoot is farce or fact when a new exhibit opens Friday.
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Hawking says space colonies needed
Jun 13 2006 12:42PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the Earth, world-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said Tuesday.
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