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Scientists find fossil of enormous bug
Nov 20 2007 11:04PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - This was a bug you couldn't swat and definitely couldn't step on. British scientists have stumbled across a fossilized claw, part of an ancient sea scorpion, that is of such large proportion it would make the entire creature the biggest bug ever.
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Stem cell breakthrough defuses debate
Nov 20 2007 11:03PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists have created the equivalent of embryonic stem cells from ordinary skin cells, a breakthrough that could someday produce new treatments for disease without the explosive moral questions of embyro cloning.
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Cheetah escapes baffles zoo officials
Nov 20 2007 10:43PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - St. Louis Zoo officials on Tuesday were trying to figure out how a year-old cheetah managed to get out of its exhibit a day earlier.
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Cheetah escapes baffles zoo officials
Nov 20 2007 10:43PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - St. Louis Zoo officials on Tuesday were trying to figure out how a year-old cheetah managed to get out of its exhibit a day earlier.
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Endangered bighorn sheep to get collars
Nov 20 2007 6:20PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Several dozen desert bighorn sheep in southern New Mexico will be outfitted this week with new radio collars, enabling biologists to continue monitoring the endangered species.
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Endangered bighorn sheep to get collars
Nov 20 2007 6:20PM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Several dozen desert bighorn sheep in southern New Mexico will be outfitted this week with new radio collars, enabling biologists to continue monitoring the endangered species.
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Congo to form nature reserve for bonobos
Nov 20 2007 5:25PM (CT)
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Congo is setting aside more than 11,000 square miles of rain forest to help protect the endangered bonobo, a great ape that is the most closely related to humans and is found only in this Central African country.
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Kyoto Protocol parties to meet targets
Nov 20 2007 5:10PM (CT)
BONN, Germany (AP) - The industrial world is hurling more carbon into the atmosphere than ever before, and governments have a narrow window of just a few years to reverse the trend and avert calamitous climate change, the U.N. climate secretariat said Tuesday.
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Space station astronauts take spacewalk
Nov 20 2007 5:07PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Two spacewalking astronauts wired up the international space station's newest room Tuesday and, to NASA's delight, kept the next shuttle visit on track for early December.
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Space station astronauts take spacewalk
Nov 20 2007 5:07PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Two spacewalking astronauts wired up the international space station's newest room Tuesday and, to NASA's delight, kept the next shuttle visit on track for early December.
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Space station astronauts take spacewalk
Nov 20 2007 5:07PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Two spacewalking astronauts wired up the international space station's newest room Tuesday and, to NASA's delight, kept the next shuttle visit on track for early December.
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Space station astronauts take spacewalk
Nov 20 2007 5:07PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Two spacewalking astronauts wired up the international space station's newest room Tuesday and, to NASA's delight, kept the next shuttle visit on track for early December.
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Wis. stem cell pioneer shuns limelight
Nov 20 2007 11:11AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - He refuses to own a TV, doesn't read newspapers, hates stories about himself and talksthisfast on the rare occasions he does speak to reporters. Jamie Thomson, Wisconsin's stem cell pioneer, does not suffer fools lightly, so you'd better get to the point and avoid personal questions.
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