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Adderall Debate Starts 'Meducation' Firestorm
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Can a pill make up for underfunded schools, lackluster teachers, and overcrowded classrooms?
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Bioethics panel urges more gene privacy protection
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:06AM October 11, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — It sounds like a scene from a TV show: Someone sends a discarded coffee cup to a laboratory where the unwitting drinker's DNA is decoded, predicting what diseases lurk in his or her future.
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Experts: Global Warming Means More Antarctic Ice
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Crabeater seals relax on a small iceberg, Port Charcot, Antarctica.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The ice goes on seemingly forever in a white pancake-flat landscape, stretching farther than ever before. And yet in this confounding region of the world, that spreading ice may be a cockeyed signal of man-made climate change, scientists say.
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Eat more chocolate, win more Nobels?
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:05PM October 10, 2012 CommentTake this with a grain of salt, or perhaps some almonds or hazelnuts: A study ties chocolate consumption to the number of Nobel Prize winners a country has and suggests it's a sign that the sweet treat can boost brain power.
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Athlete looking at Sunday for supersonic skydive
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:54PM October 10, 2012 CommentALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner hopes to make a second attempt to become the world's first supersonic skydiver with a 23-mile free fall over New Mexico on Sunday or Monday.
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SpaceX Dragon capsule arrives at space station
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:36AM October 10, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private company successfully delivered a half-ton of supplies to the International Space Station early Wednesday, the first official shipment under a billion-dollar contract with NASA.
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Romney, Obama Show Little Love for Tech Policy
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama.
Budget crisis leaves little room for more science and technology funding.
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2 U.S. Scientists Win Nobel Chemistry Prize
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This image made available by the Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, shows Americans Robert Lefkowitz, left, and Brian Kobilka, who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for studies of proteins that let body cells respond to signals from the outside.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two American researchers won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for studies of protein receptors that let body cells sense and respond to outside signals like danger or the flavor of food. Such studies are key for developing better drugs.
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Bright object on Mars is likely plastic from rover
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:05PM October 09, 2012 CommentPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — NASA says a small bright object detected on Mars is likely a piece of plastic from the Curiosity rover.
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A glance at the Nobel Prize for physics
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Skydiver begins prep for supersonic jump [Watch Live]
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:14AM October 09, 2012 CommentROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — A weather hold that threatened to cancel extreme athlete and skydiver Felix Baumgartner's death-defying, 23-mile free fall into the southeastern New Mexico desert was lifted Tuesday morning and crews began laying out his balloon.
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Frenchman, American Win Nobel for Quantum Physics
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This 2009 photo shows French physician Serge Haroche in Paris. Haroche and American David Wineland share the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, for inventing methods to observe the bizarre properties of the quantum world, research that has led to the construction of extremely precise clocks and helped scientists take the first steps toward building superfast computers.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A French-American duo shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for inventing methods to observe the bizarre properties of the quantum world, research that has led to the construction of extremely precise clocks and helped scientists take the first steps toward building superfast computers.
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2 skydivers, 52 years apart, same lofty goal
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:52AM October 09, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The advice from master to student over the past three years has been simple: Be prepared. Know what to do and how to do it.
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Mars rover Curiosity scoops, detects bright object
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:20PM October 08, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA officials say the Curiosity rover has made its first scoop of the surface of planet Mars and has detected a bright object on the ground.
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Nobel awarded for stem cell, early cloning work
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:17PM October 08, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Two scientists from different generations won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be reprogrammed into completely different kinds, work that reflects the mechanism behind cloning and offers an alternative to using embryonic stem cells.
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SpaceX launch good for NASA, not private firm
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:58PM October 08, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A private rocket successfully sent a capsule full of cargo zipping toward the International Space Station in a first of its kind delivery for NASA, but couldn't deliver on job No. 2: putting a commercial satellite into the correct orbit.
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Skydiver eyes record-breaking jump over NM [Watch Live]
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:49PM October 08, 2012 CommentROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — Skydiver Felix Baumgartner's attempt at the highest, fastest free fall in history Tuesday is more than just a stunt.
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Massive "dry cleaner bag" to lift skydiver
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:22PM October 08, 2012 CommentROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — It's described as a "40-acre dry cleaner bag," that, when first filled, will stretch 55 stories high.
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What you'll see during supersonic skydive
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:19PM October 08, 2012 CommentROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — When Felix Baumgartner makes his 23-mile supersonic skydive over southeastern New Mexico Tuesday morning, more than two dozen high-definition and high-resolution digital cameras will be recording the event. Some views will be streamed live, but with a 20-second delay.
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British, Japanese share Nobel Prize for medicine
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