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Officials eye ways to protect squirrels near Idaho dam
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Officials are eyeing ways to protect a threatened squirrel species amid plans to expand a dam in western Idaho. The Idaho Water Resource Board has approved spending up to $30,000 to…
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Hubble’s 28 years marked by shot of wild stellar nursery
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is marking the 28th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch with a peek into a wild stellar nursery. Scientists released the picture Thursday in advance of next week’s…
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How to celebrate Earth Day 2018 in the DC area
There’s more you can do to celebrate the beautiful planet we call home than simply using a reusable water bottle. Here are some ideas on how to celebrate Earth Day 2018 this weekend.
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NASA’s Tess spacecraft embarks on quest to find new planets
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Tess spacecraft embarked Wednesday on a quest to find new worlds around neighboring stars that could support life. Tess rode a SpaceX Falcon rocket through the evening sky, aiming…
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The Latest: SpaceX rocket booster lands on floating platform
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on the launch of the planet-hunter satellite Tess (all times local): 7:00 p.m. Just minutes after launching NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft, the SpaceX rocket booster is back on Earth.…
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Parenting of the future: Many embryos, each with DNA profile
NEW YORK (AP) — So you want to have a baby. Would you like a dark-haired girl with a high risk of someday getting colon cancer, but a good chance of above-average music ability? Or…
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Going deep to study exercise’s molecular nitty-gritty
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — About 120 scientists from around the U.S. are in Louisiana as part of a six-year, $170 million National Institutes of Health program to study the molecular nitty-gritty of exercise. Decades…
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Tracking the river: Mississippi model may help save coast
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Scientists working on new ways to battle the erosion that threatens Louisiana’s coastline have a dramatic new tool: a massive replica of the lower Mississippi River. The Louisiana State University’s…
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Bat key to tequila trade gets off US endangered species list
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Wildlife managers in the American Southwest say a once-rare bat important to the pollination of plants used to produce tequila has made a comeback and is being removed from the U.S.…
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Study: Diamond from the sky may have come from ‘lost planet’
BERLIN (AP) — Fragments of a meteorite that fell to Earth about a decade ago provide compelling evidence of a lost planet that once roamed our solar system, according to a study published Tuesday. Researchers…
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A look at a model of the lower Mississippi River
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A look at the Lower Mississippi River Physical Model built to help understand the last stretch of the river before it empties into the Gulf of Mexico and the effect…
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Parasite transmitted by ticks found in Canada lynx
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The Canada lynx, listed as a threatened species by the federal government, may have one more thing to worry about. University of New Hampshire scientists on Monday announced they have discovered…
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Launch delay for NASA’s newest planet-hunting spacecraft
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s newest planet-hunting spacecraft will have to wait another couple of days before lifting off. Two hours before Monday evening’s scheduled launch, SpaceX announced it needed more time to check…
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GAO says EPA violated spending law on Pruitt’s privacy booth
WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal government watchdog says the Environmental Protection Agency violated federal spending laws when purchasing a $43,000 soundproof privacy booth for Administrator Scott Pruitt to make private phone calls in his office.…
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Minor earthquakes rattle Silicon Valley, California farmland
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Two minor earthquakes a few minutes apart shook farmland in the southern San Joaquin Valley and wilderness east of Silicon Valley. The U.S. Geological Survey website had thousands of reports…
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