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Religious leaders act on climate change
Oct 31 2007 11:41PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A coalition of religious leaders urged Congress on Wednesday to ensure that the poor and most vulnerable are protected from the effects of climate change.
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Spacewalk canceled, torn wing new focus
Oct 31 2007 11:36PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA canceled Thursday's spacewalk to inspect a snarled joint for a set of solar panels and instead instructed its orbiting astronauts to go out a day later to try to fix a torn solar wing.
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Spacewalk canceled, torn wing new focus
Oct 31 2007 11:36PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA canceled Thursday's spacewalk to inspect a snarled joint for a set of solar panels and instead instructed its orbiting astronauts to go out a day later to try to fix a torn solar wing.
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Chimpanzee who knew sign language dies
Oct 31 2007 11:29PM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept.
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Scientists decode most of Mo. cat's DNA
Oct 31 2007 10:06PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An Abyssinian cat from Missouri, named Cinnamon, has just made scientific history. Researchers have largely decoded her DNA, a step that may aid the search for treatments for both feline and human diseases.
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Fires spew tons of global warming gas
Oct 31 2007 8:14PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In one week, Southern California's wildfires spewed the same amount of carbon dioxide _ the primary global warming gas _ as the state's power plants and vehicles did, scientists figure.
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China plans to build new space rockets
Oct 31 2007 4:46PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China will build a new family of rockets, state media said Wednesday, a move that would boost the country's capabilities to put satellites and space stations in space.
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Scientists note brain's reaction to fear
Oct 31 2007 4:45PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Science is getting a grip on people's fears. As Americans revel in all things scary on Halloween, scientists say they now know better what's going on inside our brains when a spook jumps out and scares us. Knowing how fear rules the brain should lead to treatments for a major medical problem: When irrational fears go haywire.
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Scientists note brain's reaction to fear
Oct 31 2007 4:45PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Science is getting a grip on people's fears. As Americans revel in all things scary on Halloween, scientists say they now know better what's going on inside our brains when a spook jumps out and scares us. Knowing how fear rules the brain should lead to treatments for a major medical problem: When irrational fears go haywire.
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Experts discover rare amphibian imprints
Oct 31 2007 4:45PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A rock that sat untouched in a Pennsylvania museum's fossil collection for years has rare full-body imprints of not just one, but three, ancient amphibians.
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Mich. arborist looks to clone redwoods
Oct 31 2007 4:39PM (CT)
SAN GERONIMO, Calif. (AP) - When David Milarch first visited Northern California in 1968, he thought he would see avenues of coast redwoods 100 miles long. What he found instead, he said, was a "moonscape."
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