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Dragon Makes History at Space Station
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In this April 29, 2012 photo provided by SpaceX, a SpaceX Dragon capsule on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket is transported to a launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule made a historic arrival at the International Space Station on Friday, captured by astronauts wielding a giant robot arm.
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New Telescope To Be in South Africa, Australia
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ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the world’s most advanced ground-based facility for astronomy.
AMSTERDAM (AP) — A giant radio telescope made up of thousands of separate dishes and intended to help scientists answer fundamental questions about the make-up of the universe will be built and based in both Australia and South Africa, the international consortium overseeing the project announced Friday.
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Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific to US
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:47PM May 28, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away — the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.
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Homecoming buzz: Short-haired bees return to UK
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:46PM May 28, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — They've been away, but now they are — hopefully —buzzing back to their rightful place in the bucolic British countryside.
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Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:17PM May 26, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.
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Astronauts enter world's 1st private supply ship
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:40PM May 26, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship.
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Is China poor? Key question at climate talks
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:15PM May 25, 2012 CommentBONN, Germany (AP) — Another round of U.N. climate talks closed without resolving how to share the burden of curbing man-made global warming, mainly because countries don't agree on who is rich and who is poor.
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German doctors apologize for Nazi-era crimes
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:50AM May 25, 2012 CommentBERLIN (AP) — Germany's medical association has adopted a declaration apologizing for sadistic experiments and other actions of doctors under the Nazis.
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Private supply ship flies by space station in test
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:03PM May 24, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The world's first private supply ship flew tantalizingly close to the International Space Station on Thursday, acing a critical test in advance of the actual docking.
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Global warming winner: Once rare butterfly thrives
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:08PM May 24, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming is rescuing the once-rare brown Argus butterfly, scientists say.
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Rich-poor divide reopens at UN climate talks
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:00PM May 24, 2012 CommentBONN, Germany (AP) — U.N. climate talks ran into gridlock Thursday as a widening rift between rich and poor countries risked undoing some advances made last year in the decades-long effort to control carbon emissions that scientists say are overheating the planet.
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Say cheese! NASA Mars rover photographs own shadow
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:49PM May 24, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Even robots like to have fun. NASA's rover on Mars showed off its playful side by snapping a picture of its own shadow. It's the latest self-portrait since the rover, named Opportunity, landed on the red planet in 2004.
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Commercial Space Race Gets Crowded Behind SpaceX
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In this April 29, 2012 photo provided by SpaceX, a SpaceX Dragon capsule on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket is transported to a launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A privately built space capsule that's zipping its way to the International Space Station has also launched something else: A new for-profit space race.
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Wanted: Bigfoot hair samples for European study
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:30PM May 23, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — European researchers are planning to use new techniques to analyze DNA that could help crack the mystery of whether Bigfoot exists.
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Beam Them Up: Ashes of 'Star Trek' Actor in Orbit
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SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft atop rocket Falcon 9 lifts off from Pad 40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Titusville, Fla.
WASHINGTON (AP) — James Doohan, Scotty from "Star Trek," spent his acting career whizzing through the cosmos. Gordon Cooper was one of America's famous Mercury seven astronauts. And Bob Shrake spent his work life anonymously helping send NASA's high-tech spacecraft to other planets.
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Commercial spacecraft speeds toward space station
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:38PM May 22, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Opening a new, entrepreneurial era in spaceflight, a ship built by a billionaire businessman sped toward the International Space Station with a load of groceries and other supplies Tuesday after a spectacular middle-of-the-night blastoff.
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What's the big deal about private space launches?
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:22PM May 22, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The first private spaceship is headed to the International Space Station. Some questions and answers about the cargo mission by Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX:
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UK virtual orchestra puts you in conductor's stand
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:03PM May 22, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — A London museum is putting the conductor's baton in visitors' hands, allowing guests to direct a virtual orchestra using three-dimensional motion sensors.
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Houston museum unveils $85 million dinosaur hall
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:55AM May 22, 2012 CommentHOUSTON (AP) — Pups in her womb, a large eye visible behind the rib cage, one baby stuck in the birth canal: all fossilized evidence that this ancient marine beast, the Ichthyosaur, died in childbirth.
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UK May Allow IVF for Same-Sex Couples
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21 Ways to Cut Expenses in Retirement
LONDON (AP) — A powerful health advisory agency says Britain should extend free fertility treatments to women up to age 42 as well as same-sex couples, recommendations likely to be followed by many of the U.K.'s medical centers.
