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Spacewalkers test method to apply patches
Jul 12 2006 9:56PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Two spacewalkers sheepishly lost a spatula in orbit Wednesday. But NASA engineers didn't mind much, because the two accomplished their main task of testing a method to apply emergency patches to a shuttle heat shield _ and then some.
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Spacecraft successfully inflates in orbit
Jul 12 2006 9:55PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An experimental spacecraft bankrolled by real estate magnate Robert Bigelow successfully inflated in orbit Wednesday, testing a technology that could be used to fulfill his dream of building a commercial space station.
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'Ferocious fossils' found in Australia
Jul 12 2006 9:23PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Before there were cuddly koalas, hoards of flesh-eating kangaroos, "demon ducks," and marsupial lions roamed Australia's Outback, according to recent fossil discoveries by paleontologists.
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Transgender prof defends female scientists
Jul 12 2006 6:05PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - As an Ivy League-trained neurobiologist who oversees a research lab at Stanford, Ben Barres feels qualified to comment on whether nature or nurture explains the persistent gender gap in the scientific community.
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Thai team works to save trapped elephant
Jul 12 2006 5:38PM (CT)
KHUN SONG, Thailand (AP) - A rescue team armed with heavy machinery was working to save a 50-year-old elephant that slipped into a muddy ditch in the Thai jungle and couldn't get up, an official said Wednesday.
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USDA: Florida citrus production tanks
Jul 12 2006 1:54PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - For the second straight season, late-maturing oranges in hurricane-hit areas will leave Florida with one of its worst citrus crops in more than a decade, federal agriculture officials said Wednesday.
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