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Nuclear plant closures shows industry's struggles
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:02AM June 08, 2013 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — The decision to close California's San Onofre nuclear plant is the latest setback for an industry that had seemed poised to grow.
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'One giant leap' toward a NASA Armstrong center?
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:27AM June 08, 2013 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Neil Armstrong's name is attached to a lunar crater, an asteroid, more than a dozen schools and a museum.
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NASA's veteran Mars rover driving to new spot
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:51PM June 07, 2013 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA's Opportunity rover is rolling across the Martian surface again, leaving behind a clay-rich rock in search of more discoveries.
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APNewsBreak: Plan would lift wolf protections
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:18AM June 07, 2013 CommentBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Obama administration is proposing to lift most remaining federal protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states almost four decades after they were added to the endangered species list.
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Boston hospital cleaning 2,500-year-old mummy
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:01AM June 07, 2013 CommentBOSTON (AP) — A 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy is coming out of its coffin to undergo cleaning and restoration procedures at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Meet your distant cousin: Tiny hyperactive primate
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:59PM June 05, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — New fossil evidence of the earliest complete skeleton of an ancient primate suggests it was a hyperactive, wide-eyed creature so small you could hold a couple of them in your hand — if only they would stay still long enough.
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Scientists Find Stem Cells in Liposuctioned Fat
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:05PM June 05, 2013 CommentCells could be used to regrow tissue in case of injury.
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Curiosity rover to head toward Mars mountain soon
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:35PM June 05, 2013 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Ten months after landing on Mars, the NASA rover Curiosity is finally about to pack up and head toward a mountain.
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Researchers Prevent Onset of PTSD in Mice
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Soldiers bow their heads in prayer before a deployment ceremony for another tour in 2009 at Fort Riley, Kansas. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Human application is about a decade away, researchers say.
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Endangered elephant killings rising in Indonesia
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:58PM June 04, 2013 CommentJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Poisoning or shooting killed many of the 129 critically endangered elephants that have died on Indonesia's Sumatra island in less than a decade, highlighting weak enforcement of laws against poaching, an environmental group says.
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Researchers Test First Brain-Controlled Drone
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:00PM June 04, 2013 CommentOnce the stuff of science fiction, a noninvasive machine takes thought and turns it into action.
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NASA set to launch latest satellite to study sun
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:36PM June 04, 2013 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA is preparing to launch its latest sun-monitoring satellite on a mission to improve space weather prediction.
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Scientists warn Atlantic puffins in peril in US
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:32AM June 03, 2013 CommentPORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Atlantic puffin population is at risk in the United States, and there are signs the seabirds are in distress in other parts of the world.
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APNewsBreak: Atlantic puffins in peril in US
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:32AM June 02, 2013 CommentPORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Atlantic puffin population is at risk in the United States, and there are signs the seabirds are in distress in other parts of the world.
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Gov. Quinn open to Great Lakes-Mississippi split
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:10PM June 01, 2013 CommentMACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn said Saturday that separating the Great Lakes and Mississippi River systems is the "ultimate solution" to prevent voracious Asian carp from overrunning the lakes, a potential step toward resolving a longstanding regional feud.
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White House: Asteroid 'poses no threat' to Earth
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:31PM May 31, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Have no fear: The White House says an asteroid more than 1 1/2 miles long poses no threat to planet Earth.
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Big asteroid swinging by Earth has its own moon
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:13PM May 30, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Astronomers getting their first close-up glimpse of a giant asteroid about to whiz by Earth found a surprise bonus rock. A smaller moon asteroid is circling the larger space rock, an unusual but not unheard of space phenomenon.
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Curiosity Rover Finds Evidence of Ancient Stream on Mars
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Russians find mammoth carcass with liquid blood
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:04PM May 30, 2013 CommentMOSCOW (AP) — A perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood has been found on a remote Arctic island, fueling hopes of cloning the Ice Age animal, Russian scientists said Thursday.
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Rounded pebbles on Mars reveal past flowing water
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:57PM May 30, 2013 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — A fresh analysis by NASA's Curiosity rover confirms a stream once ran through Gale Crater on Mars.
