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Study: Space Radiation Could Cause Alzheimer's
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, carrying an X-37B experimental robotic space plane, lifts off from launch complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Scientists have found another possible hang-up to deep space travel.
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Fla. man pleads guilty in NY in dinosaur dispute
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:13PM December 31, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — A Florida fossils dealer pleaded guilty to smuggling charges Thursday and agreed to give up a celebrated $1 million dinosaur skeleton seized by the U.S. government earlier this year for its eventual return to Mongolia.
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Road trip on tap for NASA's Mars rover in new year
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:12PM December 31, 2012 CommentPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Since captivating the world with its acrobatic landing, the Mars rover Curiosity has fallen into a rhythm: Drive, snap pictures, zap at boulders, scoop up dirt. Repeat.
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Federal government lists 2 ice seals as threatened
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:09AM December 31, 2012 CommentANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two types of ice seals joined polar bears Friday on the list of species threatened by the loss of sea ice, which scientists say reached record low levels this year due to climate warming.
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Annual bird counts give scientists climate clues
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:08AM December 31, 2012 CommentMAD ISLAND, Texas (AP) — Armed with flashlights, recordings of bird calls, a small notebook and a stash of candy bars, scientist Rich Kostecke embarked on an annual 24-hour Christmastime count of birds along the Texas Gulf Coast. Yellow rail. Barn owl. Bittern. Crested Cara-Cara. Kostecke rattled off the names and scribbled them in his notebook.
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Wash. dock resembles one from Japan found in Ore.
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:06AM December 31, 2012 CommentA scientist who examined the dock that recently washed ashore on Washington's Olympic Peninsula says it looks just like the one that came ashore on a central Oregon beach last summer, suggesting it also is a piece of tsunami debris from Japan.
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Nobel Scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini Dies in Rome
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In this photo from April 18, 2009, Italian neurologist and senator for life Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Prize winner for Medicine in 1986, is seen at a press conference for her 100th birthday, in Rome.
ROME (AP) — Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died at her home in Rome on Sunday. She was 103 and had worked well into her final years.
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Road trip on tap for NASA's Mars rover in new year
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:45AM December 29, 2012 CommentPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Since captivating the world with its acrobatic landing, the Mars rover Curiosity has fallen into a rhythm: Drive, snap pictures, zap at boulders, scoop up dirt. Repeat.
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British Team Abandons Antarctic Drilling Mission
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Study: Threatening Asteroid Will Narrowly Miss Earth in 2040
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This undated image made available by NASA and photographed by the Expedition 28 crew aboard the International Space Station, shows the moon, at center with the limb of Earth near the bottom transitioning into the orange-colored troposphere, the lowest and most dense portion of the Earth's atmosphere.
After new projections, the asteroid known as AG5 will likely miss Earth in 2040.
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10 Important Scientific Discoveries and Achievements of 2012
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, and SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk, view the historic Dragon capsule that returned to Earth on May 31 following the first successful mission by a private company to carry supplies to the International Space Station.
In 2012, private companies flew to space, NASA landed on Mars, and driverless cars hit the roads.
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Nowhere to use Japan's growing plutonium stockpile
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:56AM December 28, 2012 CommentROKKASHO, Japan (AP) — How is an atomic-powered island nation riddled with fault lines supposed to handle its nuclear waste? Part of the answer was supposed to come from this windswept village along Japan's northern coast.
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Unilever to phase out 'microplastics' by 2015
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:53PM December 27, 2012 CommentAMSTERDAM (AP) — Unilever, the maker of Vaseline, Axe deodorants and Dove soaps, among other cosmetic and hygiene products, says it will phase out the use of microplastics by 2015.
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Experts call off search for life in Antarctic lake
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:17PM December 27, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — British scientists have called off the hunt for exotic life in an ice-bound Antarctic lake after their mission was hit by a technical hitch.
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MRSA Superbug Found in British Milk
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:55PM December 26, 2012 CommentWoman with glass and bottle of milk.
The antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as MRSA ST398 has been found in English milk samples.
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Fiscal Cliff Could Cut Programs Crucial for Mentally Ill
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Automatic budget cuts would slash programs that are critically important for the mentally ill.
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West Coast girds for more tsunami debris in winter
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:45AM December 25, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Volunteers who patrol California beaches for plastic, cigarette butts and other litter will be on the lookout this winter for flotsam from last year's monstrous tsunami off Japan's coast.
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Global Flu Pandemic 'Inevitable,' Expert Warns
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:12PM December 24, 2012 CommentYoung woman blowing her nose with kleenex. High-key.
It's only a matter of time before bird flu can be passed between humans, experts warn.
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Sandia Lab building solar test centers across US
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:10PM December 24, 2012 CommentALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — One of the National Security Administration's three national laboratories is building regional testing centers around the country to field-test hardware for solar companies before their multimillion-dollar solar systems are installed in buildings.
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Few tests done at toxic sites after superstorm
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:32PM December 23, 2012 CommentOLD BRIDGE, N.J. (AP) — For more than a month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said that the recent superstorm didn't cause significant problems at any of the 247 Superfund toxic waste sites it's monitoring in New York and New Jersey.
