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Study: Ancient migrants spread farming in Europe
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:27PM April 26, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of years ago, farming spread across Europe and replaced the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of early inhabitants. Now a study of ancient DNA says that trend was driven by farmers moving from place to place.
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APNewsBreak: Fireball remnants likely in Calif.
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:27PM April 25, 2012 CommentRENO, Nev. (AP) — Tiny meteorites found in the Sierra foothills of northern California were part of a giant fireball that exploded over the weekend with about one-third the explosive force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II, scientists said Wednesday.
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Antarctic Ice Melting From Warm Water Below
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting.
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Ohio man's fossil find in Kentucky stumps experts
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:15PM April 25, 2012 CommentDAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Experts are trying to figure out what a fossil dubbed "Godzillus" used to be.
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Smokey Bear becomes next space crew's mascot
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:50AM April 25, 2012 CommentSTAR CITY, Russia (AP) — An American astronaut heading to the International Space Station has chosen Smokey Bear as his crew's mascot.
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Asteroids May Yield Precious Metals, Cosmic Riches
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Astronomers believe Sagittarius A*, a giant black hole located in the center of the Milky Way, has vaporized trillions of asteroids, comets, and maybe even planets. The resulting energy bursts result in x-ray flares that had baffled scientists since they were discovered a few years ago.
SEATTLE (AP) — Using space-faring robots to mine precious metals from asteroids almost sounds easy when former astronaut Tom Jones describes it — practically like clearing a snow-covered driveway.
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Swiss Scientists Demonstrate Mind-Controlled Robot
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Doctor points to a section of the brain on an MRI scan.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot by thought alone, a step they hope will one day allow immobile people to interact with their surroundings through so-called avatars.
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Private company delays 1st space station visit
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:18PM April 23, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private U.S. company has delayed launching a cargo ship to the International Space Station.
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Explosion, fireball reported in Nevada, California
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:58PM April 22, 2012 CommentA comet moving through space.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A loud explosion heard across much of Nevada and California on Sunday morning rattled homes and prompted a flood of calls to law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Sierra Nevada, some reporting fireball sightings.
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AP Photos: Earth Day observed around the world
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:17PM April 22, 2012 CommentAn Indian boy plays in the polluted waters of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. Women wearing leaves and flowers ready for a celebration in Barcelona. A girl holds a poster calling for water conservation amid a rain storm in Washington.
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In '72, EPA Battled Pollution, Now it's Politics
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A polluted drainage ditch that once flowed with industrial waste from Lake Charles, La., petrochemical plants teems with overgrown, wild plants today.
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Weather forecast delays shuttle's arrival to NYC
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:49PM April 20, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — The space shuttle Enterprise's scheduled arrival in New York City has been pushed back because of possible bad weather.
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Expert: Dolphin deaths in Peru still a mystery
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:11PM April 20, 2012 CommentLIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian official says authorities are still trying to unravel the mystery of why hundreds of dolphins ended up dead on beaches in the country over the past 2 1/2 months.
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Manhattan Project scientist Cowan dies at 92
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:44PM April 20, 2012 CommentALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Devoted to finding a way for science to help society, not much escaped the influence of chemist George Cowan. From the Manhattan Project and the hunt for evidence of the Soviet Union's first nuclear tests, to the Santa Fe Institute and the iconic Santa Fe Opera, friends recalled the fruits of his visionary ways.
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DARPA releases cause of hypersonic glider anomaly
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:36PM April 20, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — An unmanned hypersonic glider likely aborted its 13,000 mph flight over the Pacific Ocean last summer because unexpectedly large sections of its skin peeled off, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said Friday.
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Orangutans sit still for heart ultrasound at zoo
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:12AM April 20, 2012 CommentATLANTA (AP) — The 9-year-old patient sits still, munching on popcorn and sipping grape juice while he gets an ultrasound of his heart.
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US Scientists Head to Mount Everest for Research
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Nepalese Environment Minister Thakur Sharma, center, looks on after attending a special cabinet meeting in Kalapathar, a flat area at an altitude of 17,192 feet (5,250 meters) next to Everest base camp, in Nepal, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. Nepal's top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks Friday and held a Cabinet meeting amid the frigid, thin air of Mount Everest to highlight the danger global warming poses to glaciers, ahead of next week's international climate change talks.
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A team of American scientists and researchers flew to the Mount Everest region on Friday to set up a laboratory at the base of the world's highest mountain to study the effects of high altitude on humans.
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Smithsonian welcomes Discovery to space collection
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:52PM April 19, 2012 CommentCHANTILLY, Va. (AP) — NASA turned over space shuttle Discovery on Thursday to the Smithsonian Institution, the first in its orbiter fleet to be transferred to a U.S. museum.
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2 years later, fish sick near BP oil spill site
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:12PM April 19, 2012 CommentBARATARIA BAY, La. (AP) — Open sores. Parasitic infections. Chewed-up-looking fins. Gashes. Mysterious black streaks. Two years after the drilling-rig explosion that touched off the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, scientists are beginning to suspect that fish in the Gulf of Mexico are suffering the effects of the petroleum.
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Bats rebound in NY caves first hit by white-nose
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:26PM April 19, 2012 CommentVOORHEESVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Researchers found substantially more bats in several caves that were the first ones struck by white-nose syndrome, giving them a glimmer of hope amid a scourge that has killed millions of bats in North America.
