Feds: Many causes for dramatic bee disappearance

Feds blame combination of parasite, virus, bacteria, pesticides for strange bee disappearance

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Air and Space Museum celebrates space exploration

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Technologies transforming energy: a glossary

A visual glance at key energy terms and technologies

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Alan Alda wants scientists to cut out the jargon

Cut out the jargon: Alan Alda center at NY college teaches scientists to keep it simple

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Russia charging NASA $70 million per rocket seat

Skyrocketing inflation: Russia now charging NASA $70 million per seat to fly US astronauts

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Virgin Galactic spaceship makes 1st powered flight

Virgin Galactic's spaceship makes 1st powered flight, goes supersonic in test over California

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Solar plane lands in Ariz., 1st leg of major trip

Solar-powered airplane lands in Phoenix on first leg of trip to several US cities

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Fishermen want humpback whales off endangered list

Hawaii fishermen: North Pacific humpback whales should no longer be on endangered species list

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Researchers studying why college kids get the mumps

The outbreaks at area college campuses are part of a national pattern and researchers are trying to determine why college students are at risk for a childhood disease.

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Toddler is youngest to ever get lab-made windpipe

South Korean 2-year-old has new windpipe made from her own stem cells; youngest patient ever

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Oil drilling technology leaps, clean energy lags

Oil and gas drillers make technological leaps, while renewable energy industry struggles

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Germ-zapping 'robots': Hospitals combat superbugs

Hospitals see wave of products to fight superbugs; penalties loom if patients catch infections

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Monster hurricane watch at Saturn's North Pole

Hurricane watch at Saturn's North Pole: Cyclone eye is 1,250 miles wide, cloud speed 330 mph

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Logging halted after damage to archaeological site

Logging halted after utility workers damage American Indian archaeological sites in California

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Scholars find cannibalism at Jamestown settlement

Scientists find evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown, America's 1st permanent English colony

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Dry winter, warming trend foretell wildfire danger

National agency: Dry winter, warming trend foretell wildfire danger across West

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EPA methane report further divides fracking camps

EPA report that lowers methane-leak estimates further divides fracking camps

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Bay restoration goals one-quarter to one-third met

Chesapeake Bay restoration goals one-quarter to one-third met

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Archaeologists plan more digs at Richard III site

British archaeologists plan to exhume second tomb at site where Richard III's skeleton found

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Study: Climate change could affect D.C. water supply

A new study finds climate change could cut stream flows in the Potomac River basin, a major source of drinking water in the Washington region.

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