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2 molecular biologists get $500K medical prize
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:07PM May 11, 2012 CommentALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two molecular biologists have been awarded the annual Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.
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In West Bank, barrier threatens Roman terraces
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:15AM May 11, 2012 CommentBATTIR, West Bank (AP) — One of the last Palestinian farming villages that still uses irrigation systems from Roman times says its ancient way of life is in danger as Israel prepares to lay down its West Bank separation barrier.
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Navy study: Sonar, blasts might hurt more sea life
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:41AM May 11, 2012 CommentHONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Navy says its training and testing using sonar and explosives could potentially hurt more dolphins and whales in Hawaii and California waters than previously thought.
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Well-traveled Ore. wolf photographed in Calif.
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:56PM May 10, 2012 CommentGRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A young male wolf from Oregon that has won worldwide fame while trekking across mountains, deserts and highways looking for a mate has had what appears to be his first close encounter with people, and got his picture taken, to boot.
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Giant asteroid got one-two crater-carving punch
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:22PM May 10, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — The giant asteroid Vesta got clobbered not once but twice, and it has the scars to prove it.
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Ancient Mayan workshop for astronomers discovered
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:00PM May 10, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society's intricate calendar some 1,200 years ago.
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Video: 'Monster Sunspot' Emerges
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An eruption was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in the 304 Angstrom wavelength, which is typically colored in red.
NASA says there’s a 10 percent chance of a massive X-class solar flare within 24 hours.
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Report: 8th-grade students still lag in science
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A high school student raises his hand to answer a question in the classroom.
ATLANTA (AP) — Eighth-graders in the U.S. are doing better in science than they were two years ago, but seven out of 10 still are not considered proficient, the federal government said Thursday.
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Rover on the move after surviving Martian winter
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:10PM May 09, 2012 CommentPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The Mars rover Opportunity is on the go again.
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Vatican board asked to resign over conference
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:32AM May 09, 2012 CommentVATICAN CITY (AP) — Members of the Vatican's bioethics advisory panel have called for its board to resign after scientists who don't support core church teaching on issues like birth control and infertility were featured at its annual conference.
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Researchers: Ocean garbage gyre impacting sea life
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:31PM May 08, 2012 Comment (1)SAN DIEGO (AP) — An increase in plastic debris floating in a zone between Hawaii and California is changing the environment of at least one marine critter, scientists reported.
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Hobbs, NM, picked as site of scientific ghost town
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:43PM May 08, 2012 CommentALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A scientific ghost town in the heart of southeastern New Mexico oil and gas country will hum with the latest next-generation technology — but no people.
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Endangered wolves at NY preserve produce 8 pups
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:34PM May 07, 2012 CommentWHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Eight rare Mexican wolf pups have been born at a preserve in the New York City suburbs, a development that could aid the federal program that has reintroduced the endangered species to the wild.
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Athletes and anger: When the passion boils over
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:47PM May 07, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — New York Knicks star Amare Stoudemire scored 20 points in an NBA playoff win Sunday, but the bandage on his left hand reminded fans that he'd recently made headlines in quite a different way: smashing the glass of a fire extinguisher case after losing in Miami six days earlier.
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Excuse Me: Gassy Dinosaurs Helped Warm Earth
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This undated handout artist rendering provided by the National Science Foundation shows the newly discovered Triassic, carnivorous dinosaur, Tawa hallae. Newly described dinosaur fossils from New Mexico are helping scientists better understand the early development of these ancient creatures. The six-to-12 foot long, meat-eating creature, Tawa hallae, is described in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Potty humor just got prehistoric. A new study suggests that dinosaurs may have helped keep an already overheated world warmer with their flatulence and burps 200 million years ago.
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SKorea finds smuggled capsules contain human flesh
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:06PM May 07, 2012 Comment (4)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said Monday.
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Genetic study pins horse domestication to steppes
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:31PM May 07, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — A genetic study of horses across Eastern Europe and Central Asia has traced the domestication of one of man's most powerful animal allies to wide-open grasslands shared by Ukraine, southwest Russia and Kazakhstan, researchers said Monday.
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Biodiversity Could Be Casualty of Myanmar Openness
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi greets supporters from the gate of her house on the occasion of festivities marking the country's new year in Yangon.
As many as 40,000 gorgeously plumed birds known as the Gurney's pitta thrive in the lowland rainforests of economically backward Myanmar. Across the border, Thailand's last five pairs are guarded around the clock against snakes and human predators.
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AP Photos: Supermoon glows around the globe
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:51AM May 06, 2012 CommentIt may have been only an optical illusion, but what a sight. The biggest and brightest full moon of the year arrived Saturday night and glowed around the world.
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Look! Up in the sky! It's Supermoon!
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:58AM May 06, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — The biggest and brightest full moon of the year arrived Saturday night as our celestial neighbor passes closer to Earth than usual.
