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Shuttle to carry emergency repair patches
Jun 20 2005 8:20PM (CT)
MAGNA, Utah (AP) - Patches that someday could be used to repair damage to the leading edge of a space shuttle's wing will be carried aboard Discovery in the launch planned next month.
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Alaska Natives push for more toxin studies
Jun 20 2005 8:16PM (CT)
FAIRBANKS (AP) - Alaska Natives have seen runny bone marrow in moose and caribou, and lesions and parasites in fish _ and that makes Shawna Larson wonder if toxic chemicals in these traditional foods are making people sick, too.
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Mass. trees attacked by two moth species
Jun 20 2005 8:13PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The destruction is obvious through much of southeastern Massachusetts: Trees stripped of their leaves dot the landscape, leaving mostly brown and gray where green once was. Many of the leaves that have managed to withstand the attack bear evidence of the assault _ tiny bite marks and nibbles.
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Wildlife crowds around Arctic telescope
Jun 20 2005 8:05PM (CT)
PORT COQUITLAM, British Columbia (AP) - To examine data on the universe's earliest stars and galaxies from a balloon-launched telescope, scientists had to fend off earthly creatures in the Canadian Arctic.
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Human embryo cloned from immature eggs
Jun 20 2005 8:05PM (CT)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Scientists have cloned human embryos for the first time using unripe eggs matured in a dish _ a technique that may help cloning become a viable option for growing patients' own replacement tissue to treat diseases.
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Brain areas shut off during female orgasm
Jun 20 2005 7:38PM (CT)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - New research indicates parts of the brain that govern fear and anxiety are switched off when a woman is having an orgasm but remain active if she is faking.
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Japan to expand scientific whale culls
Jun 20 2005 11:05AM (CT)
ULSAN, South Korea (AP) - Japan said Monday it would dramatically expand its research whaling, doubling the number of minke whales it kills annually for scientific study.
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Russia cargo ship docks with space station
Jun 20 2005 10:58AM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian cargo ship successfully docked with the international space station early Sunday in a manually controlled maneuver after a communications problem switched off the autopilot system, Russian Mission Control said.
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Pelicans return to N.D.'s Chase Lake
Jun 20 2005 6:19AM (CT)
CHASE LAKE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.D. (AP) - From an airplane a half-mile above white pelican nesting grounds here, the giant birds are hard to miss. Measuring 6 feet from bill to tail and weighing up to 20 pounds each, the birds look like moving patches of snow on the islands of Chase Lake. Wildlife officials estimate 18,850 breeding adults have returned to this 4,385-acre refuge in central North Dakota, which had been known for a century as the home of the largest nesting colony of white p
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S.C. officials investigate bird deaths
Jun 20 2005 6:14AM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina wildlife officials are warning residents and visitors to stay away from sick sea birds they may see on the shore. The birds, many of which usually stay well offshore, are showing up by the dozens on South Carolina beaches and they are dead or dying.
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