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Sandy criticism prompts change in storm warnings
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:36PM April 04, 2013 CommentMIAMI (AP) — Responding to criticism after Superstorm Sandy, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday it would change the way it warns people about tropical storms that morph into something else.
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Mars missions scaled back in April because of sun
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:29AM April 04, 2013 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — It's the Martian version of spring break: Curiosity and Opportunity, along with their spacecraft friends circling overhead, will take it easy this month because of the sun's interference.
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Scientists find possible hint of dark matter
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:49PM April 03, 2013 CommentGENEVA (AP) — It is one of the cosmos' most mysterious unsolved cases: dark matter. It is supposedly what holds the universe together. We can't see it, but scientists are pretty sure it's out there.
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China bird flu mutates, might infect mammals
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:44PM April 03, 2013 CommentBEIJING (AP) — In a worrisome sign, a bird flu in China appears to have mutated so that it can spread to other animals, raising the potential for a bigger threat to people, scientists said Wednesday.
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Arizona tribe seeks artifacts up for auction
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:39PM April 03, 2013 CommentFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona tribe is asking a Paris auction house to cancel its upcoming sale of dozens of items central to the tribe's religious practices and return them to their original homes in the American Southwest.
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Obama proposes $100M for brain mapping project
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:47PM April 02, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain's activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer's, autism, stroke and traumatic brain injuries.
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Oily ducks found following Arkansas oil spill
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:17PM April 01, 2013 CommentMAYFLOWER, Ark. (AP) — The environmental impacts of an oil spill in central Arkansas began to come into focus Monday as officials said a couple of dead ducks and 10 live oily birds were found after an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured last week.
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Report predicts ever-bigger Lake Erie algae blooms
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:03PM April 01, 2013 CommentTRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — It was the largest algae bloom in Lake Erie's recorded history — a scummy, toxic blob that oozed across nearly one-fifth of the lake's surface during the summer and fall of 2011. It sucked oxygen from the water, clogged boat motors and washed ashore in rotting masses that turned beachgoers' stomachs.
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Drug maker Novartis loses India patent battle
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:09AM April 01, 2013 CommentNEW DELHI (AP) — India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected drug maker Novartis AG's attempt to patent an updated version of a cancer drug in a landmark decision that health activists say ensures poor patients around the world will get continued access to cheap versions of lifesaving medicines.
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Seal pup learning to swim again after amputation
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:06AM March 29, 2013 CommentMYSTIC, Conn. (AP) — The harbor seal pup lay battered on a Massachusetts beach, the victim of a brutal attack by an older seal that left deep wounds all over her body and sapped so much of her strength that she couldn't even flee when rescuers found her.
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Russian spaceship docks with orbiting station
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:18AM March 29, 2013 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts successfully docked Friday with the International Space Station, bringing the size of the crew at the orbiting lab to six.
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New requirements for ballast water dumped by ships
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:05AM March 29, 2013 CommentTRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new requirements for cleansing ballast water dumped from ships, which scientists believe has brought invasive species to U.S. waters that damage ecosystems and cost the economy billions of dollars.
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Solar plane plans stops in Phoenix, Dallas, NYC
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:29PM March 28, 2013 CommentMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — A solar-powered plane that has wowed aviation fans in Europe is set to travel across the United States with stops in Phoenix, Dallas, Washington, D.C., and New York, organizers of the trip announced Thursday.
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Americans oppose paying for storm-ravaged beaches
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:29PM March 28, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — More than 4 out of 5 Americans want to prepare now for rising seas and stronger storms from climate change, a new national survey says. But most are unwilling to keep spending money to restore and protect stricken beaches.
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US-Russian crew blasts off for space station
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:12PM March 28, 2013 CommentBAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A Russian spacecraft carrying a three-man crew blasted off Friday from a launch pad in the steppes of Kazakhstan, for the first time taking a shorter path to the International Space Station.
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Budget cuts could slow commercial space progress
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:19PM March 28, 2013 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — The head of NASA says federal spending cuts could eventually slow progress on commercial efforts to fly to space.
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Sumatran rhino footprints believed found on Borneo
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:48AM March 28, 2013 CommentJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Several footprints believed to be from critically endangered Sumatran rhino have been found on Indonesia's Borneo island, raising hopes for the existence of an animal long thought to be extinct in that area, a conservation group said Thursday.
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Scientists find new gene markers for cancer risk
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:28PM March 27, 2013 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — A huge international effort involving more than 100 institutions and genetic tests on 200,000 people has uncovered dozens of signposts in DNA that can help reveal further a person's risk for breast, ovarian or prostate cancer, scientists reported Wednesday.
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States Answer Help-Wanted Ad to Be Drone Test Site
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Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Troy Sella assembles the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, SkySeer, an autonomous drone aircraft used for surveillance and reconnaissance.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's the land where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, where the space shuttle fleet rolled off the assembly line and where the first private manned rocketship climbed to space.
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Western environmentalists oppose wolf delisting
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:37AM March 27, 2013 CommentCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Western environmental groups say they're alarmed that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering a plan to end federal protections for gray wolves in vast areas where the animals no longer exist.
