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Astronomers look for near-Earth objects
Aug 17 2006 7:53PM (CT)
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) - They're out there, hidden among a haze of stars _ killer asteroids. Now the world's astronomers are keeping a wary eye to the skies for giant objects on a collison course with Earth.
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Outspoken NASA advisers quit panel
Aug 17 2006 7:27PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Three NASA advisers who spoke out against budget cuts to the space agency's science programs turned in their resignations this week, officials said Thursday.
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Scientists find brain evolution gene
Aug 17 2006 5:48PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists believe they have found a key gene that helped the human brain evolve from our chimp-like ancestors. In just a few million years, one area of the human genome seems to have evolved about 70 times faster than the rest of our genetic code. It appears to have a role in a rapid tripling of the size of the brain's crucial cerebral cortex, according to an article published Thursday in the journal Nature.
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Scientists collaborate on quake research
Aug 17 2006 5:44PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - The New Madrid fault line in southeast Missouri is a long way from Hebei province in China. But a group of University of Missouri-Columbia scientists are hoping the lessons from north China's frequent, deadly earthquakes _ including one 30 years ago near Beijing that killed at least 244,000 people _ can provide clues to better understand the seismic risks in the American heartland.
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Engineered grass found growing in wild
Aug 17 2006 5:29PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Grass that was genetically engineered for golf courses is growing in the wild, posing one of the first threats of agricultural biotechnology escaping from the farm in the United States, a new study says.
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Spacecraft find suggests eruptions on Mars
Aug 17 2006 3:52PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mars' southern polar ice cap is believed to erupt in a violent fit of heated gas every spring in a process that helps explain why the Red Planet has dark spots in that region, scientists said Wednesday.
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Exhibit eyes record for 2-headed animals
Aug 17 2006 3:52PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Officials of the World Aquarium at the City Museum subscribe wholeheartedly to the maxim that two heads are better than one. If they're on the same animal, that is.
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Bolts may pose problem in shuttle launch
Aug 17 2006 3:52PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA managers on Wednesday unanimously picked Aug. 27 for the first attempt to launch the space shuttle Atlantis on a mission to resume construction of the international space station _ but two precariously attached bolts securing a crucial antenna could delay those plans.
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Adding planets means new textbooks, toys
Aug 17 2006 3:52PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The idea that our nine-planet solar system may soon join the obsolete world of eight-track tapes and slide rules should send science teachers, textbook writers and toymakers back to the cosmic drawing board.
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Plan would add planets to solar system
Aug 17 2006 3:52PM (CT)
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) - The universe really is expanding _ astronomers are proposing to rewrite the textbooks to say that our solar system has 12 planets rather than the nine memorized by generations of schoolchildren.
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'Test-tube coral babies' may mend reefs
Aug 17 2006 3:52PM (CT)
KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) - Marine scientists hope "test-tube coral babies" will take root to help restore a tract of reef ravaged by a 1984 ship grounding in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
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