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Family gets weather record-keeping award
Jul 4 2006 11:29PM (CT)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A family that started keeping weather records before the U.S. weather bureau was even established was on hand Monday in Sioux Falls for a national award.
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Navy, environmentalists battle over whales
Jul 4 2006 11:05PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - While the Navy was staging war games and hunting down "enemy" submarines with sonar off the island of Kauai two summers ago, more than 150 lost and disoriented whales were swimming chaotically in the shallows of Hanalei Bay.
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Liftoff: Discovery soars on July 4th
Jul 4 2006 10:52PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA gave the shuttle Discovery a majestic Fourth of July send-off and said early signs showed the spacecraft was in good shape, despite once again being struck by the flying foam that has plagued the program.
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Scientists study 1957 Fargo tornado
Jul 4 2006 9:29PM (CT)
FARGO, N.D. (AP) - Scientists are piecing together a statistical profile of a devastating tornado that swept through this city nearly a half century ago.
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Report: China to shame science frauds
Jul 4 2006 9:16PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China plans to publicly shame scientists who conduct fraudulent research in an effort to curb abuses following a series of high-profile scandals, a news report said Wednesday.
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Bald eagles recovering across the country
Jul 4 2006 8:41PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - When Pennsylvania officials began a campaign in 1983 to re-establish the state's bald eagle population, only three pairs of the birds and 12 eaglets remained here. Now there are more than 100 bald eagle nests in the state for the first time in over a century.
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Scientists spruce up nation's oldest nukes
Jul 4 2006 8:37PM (CT)
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have helped a federal defense agency refurbish its first B61 nuclear bomb, part of the country's effort to certify its nuclear-weapons supply without underground nuclear testing.
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A look at Discovery's seven astronauts
Jul 4 2006 2:07PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Discovery's crew of seven _ five men and two women _ includes three rookies. But their commander, Steve Lindsey, is an old hand at space flight, having flown three previous missions.
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Scientist admits falsifying stem cell data
Jul 4 2006 4:56AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A discredited South Korean cloning scientist admitted in court Tuesday to ordering subordinates to falsify stem cell data for a paper in a scientific journal, but he insisted he should not be the only one blamed in the scandal.
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Microscopic flag a test in nanotechnology
Jul 4 2006 4:33AM (CT)
RICHARDSON, Texas (AP) - Imagine singing "Oh, say, can you see" to a flag you can't see. That's what graduate students at the University of Texas at Dallas had in mind when they created the likeness of an American flag so small it would take more than 10 to span the width of a human hair.
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