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Warmed-up oceans reduce key food link
Dec 6 2006 11:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a "sneak peak" revealing a grim side effect of future warmer seas, new NASA satellite data find that the vital base of the ocean food web shrinks when the world's seas get hotter.
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Mo. lags in protecting kids from tobacco
Dec 6 2006 7:31PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Missouri is among five states that provide no money for programs to encourage children not to smoke, according to a report released Wednesday by a coalition of public health organizations.
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Scientists: Water likely flows on Mars
Dec 6 2006 7:23PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - New photographs from space suggest that water occasionally flows on the frigid surface of Mars, raising the tantalizing possibility that the Red Planet is hospitable to life, scientists reported Wednesday.
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Team awarded for better bulb discovery
Dec 6 2006 7:22PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A team of scientists at Vanderbilt University have been given an award from Popular Mechanics magazine for a discovery that could someday replace the common light bulb, the researchers say.
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Alps said to be at warmest in centuries
Dec 6 2006 7:18PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Global warming has driven temperatures in the Alps to their highest in 1,300 years, according to one of the authors of an EU-backed climate study.
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Clouds may stop Thursday shuttle launch
Dec 6 2006 7:18PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Clouds of concern gathered for Thursday night's liftoff of the space shuttle Discovery as NASA downgraded launch chances to 40 percent due to weather.
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Archaeologists find mummified remains
Dec 6 2006 7:18PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Archaeologists have discovered the mummified remains of a doctor they believe lived more than 4,000 years ago and was buried along with metal surgical tools.
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Remains of St. Paul may have been found
Dec 6 2006 7:17PM (CT)
ROME (AP) - Vatican archaeologists have unearthed a sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of the Apostle Paul that had been buried beneath Rome's second largest basilica.
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Study disputes case in Libyan AIDS trial
Dec 6 2006 2:31PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Racing against a courtroom deadline, scientists have produced new evidence that a Palestinian doctor and five Bulgarian nurses at a Libyan hospital did not deliberately infect hundreds of children with the AIDS virus.
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Australia lifts ban on therapeutic cloning
Dec 6 2006 4:15AM (CT)
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia's House of Representatives voted Wednesday to lift a ban on cloning human embryos for stem cell research, the bill's last hurdle before becoming law.
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Future dimming for Puerto Rico telescope
Dec 6 2006 1:48AM (CT)
ARECIBO, Puerto Rico (AP) - At the world's largest radio telescope, astronomers searching for asteroids on a collision course with Earth are bracing for a more worldly threat: The steepest budget cuts and first layoffs since the observatory opened in 1963.
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