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Soyuz rocket launches on mission to space station
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:00AM July 15, 2012 CommentBAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A Russian Soyuz craft launched into the morning skies over Kazakhstan on Sunday, carrying three astronauts on their way to the International Space Station, where they will quickly start preparing for a frenzy of incoming traffic.
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Remains of 15 found in ancient Mexican settlement
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:39PM July 13, 2012 CommentMEXICO CITY (AP) — Archaeologists in Mexico City have unearthed the skulls and other bones of 15 people, most of them the children of traveling merchants during Aztec times.
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Solar storm barreling toward Earth this weekend
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:24PM July 13, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — The space weather forecast for Earth looks a bit stormy this weekend, but scientists said not to worry.
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Fed. panel supports Kan. biosecurity lab project
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:11PM July 13, 2012 CommentTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A government-backed committee of the National Research Council issued a report Friday saying the United States would have adequate biosecurity protections even if plans for a proposed $1.14 billion lab in Kansas are scaled back.
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Ecuador's Gambit: Study Abroad, Apply at Home
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A tourist drives her bike along Ojos del Volcan (Eyes of the Volcano) viewpoint, near the city of Banos, Ecuador.
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Galo Guarderas is starting off on five years of study in Spain to make himself an expert in photovoltaics, a vital field for a world tapping into solar energy.
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Large solar flare erupts; little impact to Earth
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:05PM July 12, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — A huge solar flare erupted from the sun Thursday, streaming radiation toward Earth.
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Stone tools focus picture of ancient Americans
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:51PM July 12, 2012 CommentGRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Stone tools and human DNA from ancient caves in Oregon offer new evidence of how some of the first Americans spread through the continent: Quite apart from the better-known Clovis culture, a separate group occupied the West.
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Research Murky On Danger of Asian Carp Invasion
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Michigan authorities have charged David Shane Costner of Harrisburg, Ark., with 12 counts of selling live Asian carp in violation of a state law meant to prevent the spread of invasive species.
HAVANA, Ill. (AP) — As scientists aboard a research boat activate an electric current, the calm Illinois River transforms into a roiling, silvery mass. Asian carp by the dozen hurtle from the water as if shot from a gun, soaring in graceful arcs before plunging beneath the surface with splashes resembling tiny geysers.
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It's not lunacy: Not-a-planet Pluto boasts 5 moons
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:19PM July 11, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Pluto may have been kicked out of the planet club, but it has gained yet another companion.
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It's rats vs. penguins on contested Chilean island
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:47PM July 11, 2012 CommentISLOTE PAJARO NINO, Chile (AP) — A 3-week-old Humboldt Penguin gazes plaintively from the opening of its nest, waiting for its parents to return with food. They may be out hunting for fish. But if they take much longer, they might not have a chick to provide for.
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Can fracking pollute water? Study tries to answer
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:23PM July 11, 2012 CommentPITTSBURGH (AP) — A new study being done by the Department of Energy may provide some of the first solid answers to a controversial question: Can gas drilling fluids migrate and pose a threat to drinking water?
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States seek federal help fighting mussel scourge
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:44PM July 10, 2012 CommentBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Regional energy planners for four Western states are asking Congress for help building a stronger line of defense against what some officials call an unfolding environmental disaster — an invasive mussel that is clogging Colorado River reservoirs like Lake Mead outside Las Vegas after ravaging the Great Lakes region.
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Global warming tied to risk of weather extremes
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:11PM July 10, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Last year brought a record heat wave to Texas, massive floods in Bangkok and an unusually warm November in England. How much has global warming boosted the chances of events like that?
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Conservation groups sue over Arctic spill plans
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:24PM July 10, 2012 CommentJUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A coalition of conservation groups sued the federal government Tuesday over its approval of oil spill response plans for an Arctic Ocean drilling program.
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Asteroid named for gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:10PM July 10, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A Canadian amateur astronomer has named an asteroid he discovered after U.S. gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny, who died last year in Washington.
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NASA's Mars chief frets over heat shield for probe
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:14PM July 10, 2012 CommentFARNBOROUGH, England (AP) — So far, the scorecard for missions to Mars reads attempts 40, successes 14.
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India: Enough about Higgs, let's discuss the boson
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:22PM July 10, 2012 CommentNEW DELHI (AP) — While much of the world was celebrating the international cooperation that led to last week's breakthrough in identifying the existence of the Higgs boson particle, many in India were smarting over what they saw as a slight against one of their greatest scientists.
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US scientist: Ocean acidity major threat to reefs
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:19AM July 09, 2012 CommentSYDNEY (AP) — Oceans' rising acid levels have emerged as one of the biggest threats to coral reefs, acting as the "osteoporosis of the sea" and threatening everything from food security to tourism to livelihoods, the head of a U.S. scientific agency said Monday.
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Pakistan shuns physicist linked to 'God particle'
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:11AM July 09, 2012 CommentISLAMABAD (AP) — The pioneering work of Abdus Salam, Pakistan's only Nobel laureate, helped lead to the apparent discovery of the subatomic "God particle" last week. But the late physicist is no hero at home, where his name has been stricken from school textbooks.
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New studies nix report of arsenic-loving bacteria
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:05PM July 08, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — It was a provocative finding: strange bacteria in a California lake that thrived on something completely unexpected — arsenic. What it suggested is that life, a very different kind of life, could possibly exist on some other planet.
