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Bill Nye: Creation Views Threaten U.S. Science
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Bill Nye, host of television's "Bill Nye the Science Guy," recently waded into the evolution debate with an online video urging parents not to pass their religious-based doubts about evolution on to their children.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The man known to a generation of Americans as "The Science Guy" is condemning efforts by some Christian groups to cast doubts on evolution and lawmakers who want to bring the Bible into science classrooms.
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Decades of federal dollars helped fuel gas boom
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:00PM September 23, 2012 CommentPITTSBURGH (AP) — It sounds like a free-market success story: a natural gas boom created by drilling company innovation, delivering a vast new source of cheap energy without the government subsidies that solar and wind power demand.
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WHY IT MATTERS: Global warming
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Gas drilling protests held in US, other countries
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:43PM September 22, 2012 CommentPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Demonstrators in the United States and other countries protested Saturday against the natural gas drilling process known as fracking that they say threatens public health and the environment.
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Desalination no panacea for Calif. water woes
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:04PM September 22, 2012 CommentMARINA, Calif. (AP) — In the Central California coastal town of Marina, a $7 million desalination plant that can turn salty ocean waves into fresh drinking water sits idle behind rusty, locked doors, shuttered by water officials because rising energy costs made the plant too expensive.
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Spaceport is built, but who will come?
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:45AM September 22, 2012 CommentTRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Tourism Secretary Monique Jacobson says it will be New Mexico's Sydney Opera House. Virgin Galactic Chairman Richard Branson has hinted it will host the first of his new brand of lifestyle hotels. And the eclectic hot springs town of Truth or Consequences has been anxiously awaiting all the economic development the nearly quarter-of-a-billion-dollar project is supposed to bring to this largely rural part of southern New Mexico.
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After victory lap, Endeavor rolls to retirement
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:46AM September 22, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Space shuttle Endeavour rocketed beyond Earth orbit 25 times. Its 26th mission: A 12-mile commute through the streets of Los Angeles to its new retirement home in a museum.
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Sportsmen's bill passes Senate test
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:59AM September 22, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — On its last day in session before the election, the Senate tied itself in knots over 41 polar bear carcasses that hunters want to bring home from Canada as big game trophies.
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New NASA photo satellite to join 40-year mission
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:10PM September 21, 2012 CommentSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A fleet of picture-snapping NASA satellites that for 40 years has documented forest fires, tsunamis and everyday changes in the Earth's geography will soon get a new member.
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Shuttle to Sightsee Around California With Low Flyovers
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Space shuttle Endeavour sits atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Space shuttle Endeavour will spend its last flying day Friday not rocketing into space, but doing what most tourists do when visiting California: Taking in the state Capitol, Golden Gate Bridge and the Hollywood Sign.
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Shut up! Speech jammer among 2012 Ig Nobel winners
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:14PM September 20, 2012 CommentBOSTON (AP) — For anyone who's ever been tired of listening to someone drone on and on and on, two Japanese researchers have the answer.
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How the tabby got its stripes: It's in the genes
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:52PM September 20, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — How does a tabby cat earn its stripes? With the right DNA.
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Park Service defends refusal to use wolves
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:42PM September 20, 2012 CommentBOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The National Park Service acted properly when it ruled out using wolves to control the elk population in Rocky Mountain National Park, government lawyers argued Thursday before a federal appeals court.
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What's it like to fly a plane with shuttle on top?
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:28PM September 20, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — It's the ultimate piggyback ride: A space shuttle perched atop a Boeing 747 as the pair crisscrosses the country.
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Endeavor Leaves Houston for New Home in Los Angeles
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Space shuttle Endeavour sits atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
HOUSTON (AP) — Space shuttle Endeavor has departed Houston on its trek west to retirement in a Los Angeles museum.
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AP Exclusive: Unique tombs found in Philippines
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:03AM September 20, 2012 CommentMANILA, Philippines (AP) — Archaeologists have unearthed remnants of what they believe is a 1,000-year-old village on a jungle-covered mountaintop in the Philippines with limestone coffins of a type never before found in this Southeast Asian nation, officials said Thursday.
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UK lawmakers seek moratorium on Arctic drilling
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:46AM September 20, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — International governments should seek a moratorium on offshore drilling in the Arctic amid concern an oil spill in the region could cause catastrophic environmental damage, British lawmakers said Thursday.
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Arctic ice shrinks to all-time low; half 1980 size
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:51PM September 19, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — In a critical climate indicator showing an ever warming world, the amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank to an all-time low this year, obliterating old records.
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Final testing under way for Wyoming supercomputer
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:42PM September 19, 2012 CommentCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Final testing is being done on a National Center for Atmospheric Research supercomputer on the outskirts of Cheyenne that will be used for climate modeling and other Earth sciences.
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Eclipse season on Mars, so Curiosity took photos
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:00PM September 19, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — On Mars, a partial eclipse of the sun isn't quite as rare as on Earth. So NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is snapping hundreds of pictures of the spectacle for the folks back home to ooh and aah over.
