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Why Spring Starts Today
LiveSciencecom
(20 March 10:02) |
| LiveScience.com - Today is the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. It is no guarantee of spring-like weather, but
officially the season's start comes around at the same time each... |
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Sharks on the menu at wildlife trade meet
AFP
(20 March 09:35) |
| AFP - Four rapidly dwindling shark species prized in Asia for fins and in Europe for meat will be swimming against the current at a UN wildlife trade meet days after an attempt to protect tu... |
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3 Best Smartphones You Can Buy
LiveSciencecom
(20 March 06:50) |
| LiveScience.com - Smartphones are quickly becoming the most coveted devices for consumers
these days. They browse the Web, check email, play videos and use
thousands of apps to expand functi... |
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Boy receives pioneering stem cell surgery
AFP
(20 March 02:12) |
| AFP - British and Italian doctors have carried out groundbreaking surgery to rebuild the windpipe of a 10-year-old boy using stem cells developed within his own body, they said. |
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Massive sandstorm turns Beijings streets yellow
Reuters
(20 March 12:47) |
| Reuters - Tons of sand from deserts in China's interior blew into Beijing Saturday, shrouding China's capital in a yellow-orange haze that authorities warned made the air quality "hazardous.... |
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Arizona state employee fired over jaguar capture
AP
(20 March 08:06) |
| AP - The Arizona Game and Fish Department has fired an employee based on results of an internal investigation into the capture and death of what was the only known wild jaguar in the U.S. |
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Nevada wild-horse roundup death toll rises
AP
(20 March 08:05) |
| AP - Activists in Nevada are questioning the rising death toll from a government roundup of wild horses from the range north of Reno. |
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British boy receives pioneering stem cell surgery
AFP
(20 March 07:49) |
| AFP - British and Italian doctors have carried out groundbreaking surgery to rebuild the windpipe of a 10-year-old British boy using stem cells developed within his own body, they said. |
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Media Too Optimistic about Cancer Scientists Say
LiveSciencecom
(20 March 05:20) |
| LiveScience.com - The news media paints an overly optimistic picture of cancer. That's
according to one of a series of papers being published in the March 17
issue of the Journal of the Amer... |
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Chile unveils $110 million reconstruction plan
AFP
(20 March 02:33) |
| AFP - Chile unveiled an initial, 110-million-dollar reconstruction plan Friday to put the central region back on its feet after a devastating earthquake and tsunami. |
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Onions Made Pre-Human Ancestors Cry Too Study Suggests
LiveSciencecom
(20 March 02:13) |
| LiveScience.com - The sensors in your body that make you tear up when you're
cutting onions have been around for 500 million years, a new study finds. |
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Weather service lowers predicted Red River crest
AP
(20 March 02:13) |
| AP - The projected crest of the Red River at Fargo, N.D., has dropped a half-foot, which is good news for a city braced for flooding. |
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Many tools but no guarantees in forecasting floods
AP
(20 March 02:05) |
| AP - A year ago, weather forecasters changed their estimate late in the game of just how high the Red River would rise, stoking an 11th-hour sandbagging flurry in Fargo that proved unnecessa... |
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Crippled Mars Rover is Chilled But Still Alive
SPACEcom
(20 March 02:01) |
| SPACE.com - NASA's crippled Spirit Mars rover is still awake as it
prepares for the oncoming Martian winter, which has already left it colder than
ever before. |
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Saturn at its Best for 2010
SPACEcom
(20 March 01:46) |
| SPACE.com - While the
planet Venus is now gaining in prominence low in western evening sky and Mars
continues to slowly fade as it recedes from Earth, another bright naked eye
planet, Saturn... |
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First-time cosmonauts set to blast off with toy duck
AFP
(19 March 11:15) |
| AFP - Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov brandished a small toy duck Friday as he and his crewmates prepared to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) in April. |
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Men Take More Risks When Pretty Women Are Around
LiveSciencecom
(19 March 10:16) |
| LiveScience.com - Being around a pretty woman can make men take more risks, a
new study finds. |
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Activists urge Australia to charge Japanese whalers
AFP
(19 March 09:42) |
| AFP - Anti-whaling activists have lodged a legal complaint against the captain and crew of a Japanese trawler which hit and sank their hi-tech speedboat, a politician said Friday. |
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Munich diocese faces tsunami of abuse claims
AP
(19 March 09:37) |
| AP - Pope Benedict XVI's former diocese is facing new allegations of physical and sexual abuse on a daily basis, the head of its new sex-abuse task force said Friday. |
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The Big Bang Solid Theory But Mysteries Remain
SPACEcom
(19 March 09:15) |
| SPACE.com - The Big Bang was the beginning of the universe as we know
it, most scientists say. But was it the first beginning, and will it be the
last? |
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Japan sighs relief as bluefin tuna ban fails
The Christian Science Monitor
(19 March 07:49) |
| The Christian Science Monitor - Sushi chefs and fish dealers across the Japanese archipelago were letting out small sighs of relief Thursday night as news filtered in from the Convention on ... |
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How Astronauts Can Become Media Stars
SPACEcom
(19 March 07:45) |
| SPACE.com - Astronauts
who set out to one day travel among the stars have sometimes – like famed
moonwalker Buzz Aldrin – become stars in their own right on Earth. |
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Lifetime tiger hunter 92 snared in Indonesia
AFP
(19 March 06:00) |
| AFP - Indonesian conservationists said on Friday they had caught red-handed a 92-year-old man who had admitted to killing dozens of critically endangered Sumatran tigers over a lifetime of h... |
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Students Discover Clawed Dinosaur in China
LiveSciencecom
(19 March 05:55) |
| LiveScience.com - A claw sticking out of a cliff face in Mongolia, China,
turned out to be the tip of the dinosaur - the skeleton of a 6-foot-long agile
predator that preyed on its own kind. |
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Geneva atom smasher sets record for beam energy
AP
(19 March 05:09) |
| AP - Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secr... |
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US says driver error possible in NY Prius crash
Reuters
(19 March 03:54) |
| Reuters - U.S. safety officials believe driver error may be behind the crash in New York of a Toyota Motor Corp Prius that has been investigated as a possible case of unintended acceleration... |
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New date set for European climate satellite launch
AFP
(19 March 03:39) |
| AFP - The European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday said it had set the date of April 8 for the delayed launch of CryoSat-2, a satellite designed to see how Earth's ice sheets react to climate c... |
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Japan police recommend charges in Prius crash
AP
(19 March 10:40) |
| AP - Japanese police are recommending charges against a driver who says his Toyota Prius crashed because of brake failure after an analysis of "black box" data showed no defects. |
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Pakistan seeks civilian nuclear aid but US unlikely to deliver
McClatchy Newspapers
(19 March 07:00) |
| McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan will seek U.S. aid for its civilian nuclear power program next week when its top military and senior civilian leaders visit Washin... |
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What Is the Organic Liaison Diet
LiveSciencecom
(19 March 06:30) |
| LiveScience.com - "Fat Actress" star Kirstie Alley - following a well-publicized
failure as spokeswoman for weight loss company Jenny Craig - has
developed a new diet system called Organic L... |
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Climate change cited as Mont leases suspended
AP
(19 March 05:35) |
| AP - A federal judge has approved a first-of-its-kind settlement requiring the government to suspend 38,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Montana so it can gauge how oil field activities co... |
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Midwest set for minor flooding on weekend rain
Reuters
(19 March 04:06) |
| Reuters - Rains and melting snow are expected this weekend to trigger more flooding in parts of Midwest, mainly in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri, adding to concerns over possible delays in spr... |
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Feds Brakes werent applied on crashed NY Prius
AP
(19 March 03:42) |
| AP - Computer data from a Toyota Prius that crashed in suburban New York City show that at the time of the accident the throttle was open and the driver was not applying the brakes, U.S. saf... |
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Chief financial officer of Covanta Holding resigns
AP
(19 March 03:01) |
| AP - Renewable energy company Covanta Holding Corp. said Thursday that its chief financial officer will leave the company at the end of the month. |
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Giant Redwood Trees Endured Frequent Fires Centuries Ago
LiveSciencecom
(19 March 02:36) |
| LiveScience.com - Ancient trees pack a record of ancient events. And now scientists
have used 52 of the world's oldest trees - giant sequoia redwoods in
California's western Sierra Nevada - ... |
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Export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna rejected
AP
(19 March 02:33) |
| AP - Fishing nations won a victory over environmentalists Thursday when a U.S.-backed proposal to ban export of the Atlantic bluefin tuna was overwhelmingly rejected at a U.N. wildlife meeti... |
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NASA Lunar Orbiter Spots Old Soviet Moon Landers
SPACEcom
(19 March 02:00) |
| SPACE.com - NASA's
sharp-eyed Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been used to locate vintage
space hardware lobbed to the moon in the 1970s by the former Soviet Union. |
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Mont drilling leases on hold over climate change
AP
(19 March 01:49) |
| AP - A federal judge has approved a settlement requiring the government to suspend oil and gas leases on almost 38,000 acres in Montana because potential climate change impacts were not stud... |
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No brakes applied in NY Prius crash NHTSA
Reuters
(19 March 01:47) |
| Reuters - U.S. investigators looking into the claim of a runaway Toyota Motor Corp Prius in New York last week said on Thursday no brakes had been applied before the vehicle hit a wall. |
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Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward
AP
(19 March 01:35) |
| AP - From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality... |
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US-Russian duo returns to Earth from space station
Reuters
(19 March 01:32) |
| Reuters - A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying a U.S. astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut from the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan on Thursday. |
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Smart Camera to Boost Robotic Visual Intelligence
LiveSciencecom
(19 March 01:20) |
| LiveScience.com - DARPA, the United States military's research and development arm,
has announced a new project to develop a "smart camera" that would help
robots better understand the world... |
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Ancient Reptile Dined on Dinosaurs
LiveSciencecom
(19 March 12:33) |
| LiveScience.com - An ancient crocodile-like animal, about twice the length of
an SUV, probably dined on sea turtles and dinosaurs, suggests bite-mark
evidence and dung droppings. |
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Cassini Sees Saturns Rough and Tumble Rings
SPACEcom
(19 March 12:00) |
| SPACE.com - The rings of Saturn are the most intricate planetary
decorations in our solar system, but are also cosmic gems festooned with unknown
red material and some tricky dynamic forces ... |
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Why We Play Nice With Strangers
LiveSciencecom
(18 March 11:45) |
| LiveScience.com - In large, industrialized societies, people are surprisingly
fair and trusting when it comes to dealing with strangers - shoplifters and
pick-pocketers are a minority rather... |
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Owners threaten to shut down New Jersey nuke plant
AP
(18 March 11:37) |
| AP - Owners of the nation's oldest nuclear power plant are threatening to shut it down rather than build cooling towers mandated by New Jersey environmental regulators. |
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Bulgaria boosts GM crop restrictions
AFP
(18 March 10:48) |
| AFP - Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday tightened restrictions on genetically modified food crops in the face of pressure from environmentalists seeking a total ban. |
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EPA begins study on shale gas drilling
Reuters
(18 March 09:35) |
| Reuters - The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday it will begin to take a closer look at the environmental and human health impact of shale gas drilling, which could mean new re... |
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Cat With Flat Head and Webbed Feet Losing Habitat
LiveSciencecom
(18 March 09:26) |
| LiveScience.com - A tiny flat-headed cat with webbed feet has lost much of its
historical rain-forest habitat in South-East Asia, a new study finds. |
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New 3D Film Makes Hubble Space Telescope a Star
SPACEcom
(18 March 09:17) |
| SPACE.com - The
Hubble Space Telescope has long been an icon of astronomy with $10 billion
spent over two decades to keep it peering deep into the
cosmos. Now a new IMAX film is taking th... |
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