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May 28, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away — the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.

May 28, 2012

LONDON (AP) — They've been away, but now they are — hopefully —buzzing back to their rightful place in the bucolic British countryside.

May 26, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.

May 26, 2012

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship.

May 25, 2012

BONN, Germany (AP) — Another round of U.N. climate talks closed without resolving how to share the burden of curbing man-made global warming, mainly because countries don't agree on who is rich and who is poor.

May 25, 2012

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule made a historic arrival at the International Space Station on Friday, captured by astronauts wielding a giant robot arm.

May 25, 2012

AMSTERDAM (AP) — A giant radio telescope made up of thousands of separate dishes and intended to help scientists answer fundamental questions about the make-up of the universe will be built and based in both Australia and South Africa, the international consortium overseeing the project announced Friday.

May 25, 2012

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's medical association has adopted a declaration apologizing for sadistic experiments and other actions of doctors under the Nazis.

May 24, 2012

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The world's first private supply ship flew tantalizingly close to the International Space Station on Thursday, acing a critical test in advance of the actual docking.

May 24, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming is rescuing the once-rare brown Argus butterfly, scientists say.

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