AP Top Science News At 4 p.m. EDT
AP Top Science News At 4 p.m. EDT
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Would you like 1 hump or 2 with your dinosaur?
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SETH BORENSTEIN
2010-09-08T18:26:59Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The weird world of dinosaurs has just gotten a tad more bizarre. Scientists found a nearly complete fossil of a new dinosaur that sports a noticeable hump, maybe as possible advertising....
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Turtle egg rescue at space center billed success
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MARCIA DUNN
2010-09-08T20:03:09Z
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The unprecedented turtle rescue effort at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is winding down....
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Water main break at space center stalls shuttle
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MARCIA DUNN
2010-09-08T18:17:26Z
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A water main break at NASA's spaceport put launch preparations on temporary hold Wednesday for the next-to-last shuttle flight....
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Microbes are eating BP oil without using up oxygen
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SETH BORENSTEIN
2010-09-07T22:15:23Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive....
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Gunmen kill Iraqi TV journalist in Mosul
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SINAN SALAHEDDIN
2010-09-08T16:13:07Z
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Gunmen on Wednesday killed an Iraqi TV journalist, the second to be slain in Iraq in as many days, highlighting the dangers media workers continue to face in the country seven years after the U.S.-led invasion....
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Big quake aftershocks plague New Zealand city
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ROB GRIFFITH
2010-09-08T11:35:10Z
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) -- A strong aftershock rocked terrified residents of New Zealand's earthquake-stricken city of Christchurch on Wednesday, as officials doubled their estimate for repairing the damage following nearly 300 temblors in five days....
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2 asteroids to whiz harmlessly past Earth
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2010-09-07T20:48:58Z
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth on Wednesday, a double flyby that should be visible through a telescope....
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Report: Money can buy you happiness, to a point
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RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
2010-09-07T07:09:14Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- They say money can't buy happiness. They're wrong....
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Ancient city by the sea rises amid Egypt's resorts
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PAUL SCHEMM
2010-09-07T12:10:49Z
MARINA, Egypt (AP) -- Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade....
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Japan confirms its first case of new superbug gene
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SHINO YUASA
2010-09-07T11:29:15Z
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan has confirmed the nation's first case of a new gene in bacteria that allows the microorganisms to become drug-resistant superbugs, detected in a man who had medical treatment in India, a Health Ministry official said Tuesday....