They oughta call them the Time Bandits. Everyone knows leap years occur every four years. But thanks to science’s ability…
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Hurricane Season Promises a Rough Ride, Weather Agency Says
Despite a slow start, the Atlantic hurricane season still looks to be a doozy. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency…
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The Jumanji effect? Extra warm winter playing havoc with hibernating animals
Ravenous black bears scurrying through trash cans for dinner, mosquitoes swarming in the early grass, amorous deer behaving like, well,…
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NASA Launches Latest Earth-Orbiting Satellite
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – A rocket carrying an Earth-observation satellite has blasted off. Vandenberg Air Force Base officials…
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Scientists use DNA to ID rarest whale
The world’s rarest whale has been spotted for the first time, in New Zealand, where two of the whales stranded…
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Felix Baumgartner on 24-mile-high skydive: ‘I had to fight it all the way’
ROSWELL, N.M. – How does it feel to leap from the edge of space? Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner plunged 24-miles…
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CAIRO – Czech archaeologists have unearthed the 4,500-year-old tomb of a Pharaonic princess south of Cairo, in a finding that…
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Americans Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win Nobel chemistry prize
STOCKHOLM – Americans Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka won the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for studies of protein…
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Why is China targeting the moon — and should NASA as well?
Americans from Buzz Aldrin to president Barack Obama say it’s a waste of time to put men back on the…
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Virgin births may be common in the wild
Wild female pit vipers can reproduce without a male, suggesting virgin births may take place in nature far more than…
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