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Cheese first made at least 7,500 years ago
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:53PM December 12, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Little Miss Muffet could have been separating her curds and whey 7,500 years ago, according to a new study that finds the earliest solid evidence of cheese-making.
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Virgin Galactic future at Spaceport uncertain
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:51PM December 12, 2012 CommentALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The deal was sold to New Mexicans in classic Richard Branson fashion. If taxpayers would build the colorful British businessman a $209 million futuristic spaceport, he would make New Mexico the launching point for a space tourism business catering to the rich and famous.
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Distant galaxy regains title as oldest in universe
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:49PM December 12, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — A galaxy once considered the oldest has reclaimed its title, scientists reported Wednesday.
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Scientists seek to solve mystery of Piltdown Man
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:11PM December 12, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — It was an archaeological hoax that fooled scientists for decades. A century on, researchers are determined to find out who was responsible for Piltdown Man, the missing link that never was.
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Air Force Sends Mystery Mini-Shuttle Back to Space
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:05PM December 11, 2012 Comment
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.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The military's small, top-secret version of the space shuttle rocketed into orbit Tuesday for a repeat mystery mission, two years after making the first flight of its kind.
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Scientists May Have Finally Unlocked Puzzle of Why People Are Gay
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:02PM December 11, 2012 Comment
Phyllis Lyon, left, and her partner Del Martin, right, sit for a photograph at their home in San Francisco,. Martin, 87, and Lyon, 84, longtime lesbian activists who have been together for more than five decades, have become symbols for the movement to grant same-sex couples the right to marry. The pair also were plaintiffs in the California Supreme Court case that led to the legalization of gay marriage. Mayor Gavin Newsom plans to officiate at the couple's wedding at City Hall on June 16, the day when gay marriage becomes legal in California.
Theory: Lesbians get it from their fathers, gay men from their mothers.
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Hawking, CERN Scientists Win Huge Physics Prize
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:50AM December 11, 2012 Comment
Physicist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking appears in Seattle, Saturday, June 16, 2012.
GENEVA (AP) — A Russian billionaire's foundation is awarding two special prizes of $3 million each to British cosmologist Stephen Hawking for his work on black holes and to seven scientists at the world's biggest atom-smasher for their roles in the discovery of a new subatomic particle believed to be the long-sought Higgs boson.
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Alan Alda asks scientists to explain: What's time?
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:01AM December 11, 2012 CommentMINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Professor Alan Alda has a homework assignment for scientists. Yes, that Alan Alda.
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Who's Living Past 100? White Women in the Midwest
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:19PM December 10, 2012 Comment
Elderly woman looks sad
A new Census report shows that over 80 percent of centenarians are women.
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Ancient Extinct Lizard Named After President Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:32PM December 10, 2012 CommentYale researcher says 'The Obamadon' was wiped out by the same asteroid that killed off dinosaurs.
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Energy experts say drilling can be made cleaner
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:35PM December 10, 2012 CommentPITTSBURGH (AP) — In the Colorado mountains, a spike in air pollution has been linked to a boom in oil and gas drilling. A thousand miles away on the plains of north Texas, there's a drilling boom, too, but some air pollution levels have declined. Opponents of drilling point to Colorado and say it's dangerous. Companies point to Texas and say drilling is safe.
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After climate talks, eyes on US for next round
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:02PM December 09, 2012 CommentDOHA, Qatar (AP) — Even as international climate talks ended this weekend with no new commitments on carbon emissions or climate aid from the United States, some were relieved America didn't make a weak deal even weaker.
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British Astronomer Patrick Moore Dies at 89
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Comet Hale-Bopp is seen above the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge in south west England on March 28, 1997.
LONDON (AP) — British astronomer and broadcaster Patrick Moore died Sunday, according to friends and colleagues. He was 89.
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UN conference adopts extension of Kyoto accord
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:21PM December 08, 2012 CommentDOHA, Qatar (AP) — Seeking to control global warming, nearly 200 countries agreed Saturday to extend the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that limits the greenhouse gas output of some rich countries, but will only cover about 15 percent of global emissions.
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UN climate talks go into overtime in Qatar
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:06PM December 07, 2012 CommentDOHA, Qatar (AP) — The world's poorest countries, inundated by rising seas and worsening disasters, made a last ditch plea for financial help early Saturday as negotiators at United Nations climate talks struggled to reach an ambitions deal to combat global warming.
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Can Humans Be Controlled by Tiny Parasites?
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:40PM December 07, 2012 Comment
More than 60 million Americans carry the single-celled parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which infects brain tissue.
A new study finds that a common parasite could be influencing human behavior.
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Alaska Reclaims Moon Rocks Missing Since 1973
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:09PM December 06, 2012 Comment
In this Dec. 3, 1969, photo provided by the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, President Richard Nixon presents moon rocks to then Governor of Alaska Keith Miller, right, as Pat Nixon, second left, and Diana Miller look on at the Governors Conference in Washington. The rocks disappeared after a museum fire in 1973 but were returned to Alaska on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A display of moon rocks that disappeared from an Alaska museum after an arson fire nearly four decades ago has been returned to the state following the settlement of a lawsuit by a man who claimed he rescued the rocks from the rubble.
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AP Exclusive: Japan scientists took utility money
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:03PM December 06, 2012 CommentTOKYO (AP) — Influential scientists who help set Japan's radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country's nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the world's top academic group on radiation safety.
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Report: Calif. stem cell agency needs overhaul
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:36PM December 06, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — California has transformed into a major player in stem cell research, but the taxpayer-funded institute responsible has "significant deficiencies" in how research dollars are distributed, experts said Thursday.
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To the moon? Firm hopes to sell $1.5 billion trips
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:02PM December 06, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Attention wealthy nations and billionaires: A team of former NASA executives will fly you to the moon in an out-of-this-world commercial venture combining the wizardry of Apollo and the marketing of Apple.
