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Private space module has success
Jun 29 2007 11:32PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A prototype of an inflatable space station module has successfully expanded and deployed its solar panels after being launched into orbit, a private developer said.
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EU paper shows options on warming Europe
Jun 29 2007 3:56PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Water shortages in the Mediterranean, flash floods along the Rhine and summers so hot that nuclear power stations can't cool down. This is what Europe can expect as its climate warms over the next decades, a European Union paper warned Friday, as it laid out options for what governments can do now to prepare for the effects of climate change.
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Domestic cats may have ancient roots
Jun 29 2007 3:53PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Garfield, Morris and the Aristocats get the fame, but look to the origins of today's furry felines and you find "lybica," a Middle Eastern wildcat. Domestic cats can be traced to wild progenitors that interbred well over 100,000 years ago, new research indicates.
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Domestic cats may have ancient roots
Jun 29 2007 3:53PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Garfield, Morris and the Aristocats get the fame, but look to the origins of today's furry felines and you find "lybica," a Middle Eastern wildcat. Domestic cats can be traced to wild progenitors that interbred well over 100,000 years ago, new research indicates.
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Scientists swap genes in bacteria
Jun 29 2007 3:53PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Talk about identity theft: Scientists changed one species of bacteria into another by performing a complete gene swap.
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Squash grown 10,000 years ago in Peru
Jun 29 2007 3:52PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Agriculture was taking root in South America almost as early as the first farmers were breaking ground in the Middle East, new research indicates. Evidence that squash was being grown nearly 10,000 years ago, in what is now Peru, is reported in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
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Mars rover to make risky crater descent
Jun 29 2007 3:52PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - NASA's aging but durable Mars rover Opportunity will make what could be a trip of no return into a deep impact crater as it tries to peer further back than ever into the Red Planet's geologic history.
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Invasive decorative plants targeted
Jun 29 2007 3:52PM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Bamboo-like plants that grow taller than adults have choked out native plants in a marsh that once teemed with life at Maumee Bay State Park along Lake Erie.
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