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NASA aims for Tuesday shuttle launch
Jul 20 2005 10:29PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA will try to launch Discovery on the first shuttle mission in more than two years next Tuesday, after tracing last week's fuel gauge failure to, most likely, an electrical grounding problem lurking inside the spacecraft.
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Population of endangered woodpecker rises
Jul 20 2005 8:29PM (CT)
THOMASVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Working by flashlight in a Georgia pine forest, wildlife biologists carefully position nets over tree cavities 30 to 40 feet above ground.
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Scientists: Antarctic has strong ecosystem
Jul 20 2005 8:23PM (CT)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - An expansive ecosystem of knee-high mud volcanoes, snowy microbial mats and flourishing clam communities lies beneath the collapsed Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica, say researchers.
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Gulf dead zone likely to be smaller
Jul 20 2005 8:16PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The dead zone off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas should be considerably smaller than usual this year _ about the size of Rhode Island, rather than larger than Jamaica, researchers say.
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Scientist testifies on global warming
Jul 20 2005 8:12PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Global warming is caused primarily by humans and "nearly all climate scientists today" agree with that viewpoint, the new head of the National Academy of Sciences _ a climate scientist himself _ said Wednesday.
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Jewish catacomb predates Christian ones
Jul 20 2005 8:11PM (CT)
ROME (AP) - A Jewish catacomb in Rome predates its Christian counterparts by at least 100 years, indicating burial in the city's sprawling underground cemeteries may not have begun as a Christian practice, according to a study published Wednesday.
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Microchip saves rare Cambodian turtle
Jul 20 2005 5:47PM (CT)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - They're calling him "the lucky royal turtle" _ a rare and endangered reptile that was saved from a likely fate in a Chinese soup pot by keen-eyed wildlife officers and a microchip.
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Man who advanced bird-dinosaur link dies
Jul 20 2005 1:58PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - John H. Ostrom, a Yale University paleontologist who advanced the theory that birds descended from dinosaurs and was credited for a discovery of a small carnivorous dinosaur in 1964, has died. He was 77.
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Clemson to research birth disorders
Jul 20 2005 8:50AM (CT)
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) - Clemson University and Greenwood Genetic Center have agreed to a $15 million initiative to find causes and cures for birth disorders.
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Research lab probes life under the sea
Jul 20 2005 7:10AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Living for days on end 63 feet beneath the waves is a near-ideal situation for researchers studying undersea life, biologist James Lindholm says. Yet sometimes the best-laid experiments can go awry.
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