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NASA searching for moon landing tapes
Aug 14 2006 11:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - NASA officials are searching for the original videotapes from the first moon landing in 1969 in the hopes that they can use modern technology to produce sharper images of the event.
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NASA borrows ideas from Apollo program
Aug 14 2006 10:00PM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Jim Snoddy and other NASA engineers didn't just go to the drawing board or a warehouse when they needed ideas _ and parts _ for America's next lunar rocket. They went to space museums.
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Bringing back the woolly mammoth - maybe
Aug 14 2006 8:36PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Descendants of extinct mammals like the giant woolly mammoth might one day walk the Earth again. It isn't exactly Jurassic Park, but Japanese researchers are looking at the possibility of using sperm from frozen animals to inseminate living relatives.
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Study on Arkansas' bumblebees completed
Aug 14 2006 6:45PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - A two-year study on Arkansas' bumblebees is complete, and scientists say the results will be useful for the state's farmers, gardeners and environmentalists.
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Genetic testing to help anglers, fish
Aug 14 2006 6:44PM (CT)
GOLD BEACH, Ore. (AP) - The last time Scott Boley came home from salmon fishing, he had 17 fish to show for three days of work.
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Astronomers meet to define 'planet'
Aug 14 2006 6:44PM (CT)
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) - Nearly 2,500 astronomers from 75 countries gathered in Prague Monday to come up with a universal definition of what qualifies as a planet and possibly decide whether Pluto should keep its planet status.
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Researchers probe what spawns hurricanes
Aug 14 2006 6:38PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Every hurricane season, clusters of showers and thunderstorms roll off the coast of Africa and head over the Atlantic toward America. Most of these 60 or so tropical waves never do any harm. But about 10 eventually grow into tropical storms or monster hurricanes like Katrina and Andrew.
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