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NASA Awards Civil Design, Engineering and Services Contract
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST
NASA has selected Jones Edmunds & Associates, Inc. of Gainesville, Fla., to provide civil and environmental design, engineering and other professional services.

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Meeting on deforestation boosts morale, budget 
    (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:14:01 GMT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers his speech during the opening session of the international conference on  major forest areas, in Paris, Thursday March 11, 2010. Sarkozy opened daylong conference of some 40 nations to start turning plans into action to save the world's forests and help rein in the noxious gases blamed for climate change. (AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer, Pool)AP - A conference bringing together more than 60 nations Thursday added $1 billion to the fight against deforestation and boosted the morale of those hoping to save the world's forests — a key defense against global warming.




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Glenn Close has genes mapped
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:20:32 +0000
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu has done it. So has genome pioneer Craig Venter.


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NASA Announces Systems Engineering Student Competition
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST
NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate is inviting teams of undergraduate and graduate students throughout the country to participate in the fourth annual Systems Engineering Paper Competition.

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Endangered listing eyed for US loggerhead turtles 
    (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:29:58 GMT

FILE - In this May 15, 2007 file photo, a loggerhead sea turtle swims at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. The turtle was first discovered as a hatchling straggler left behind by his nest mates, and was later released back into the Atlantic Ocean. The federal government recommended Wednesday, March 10, 2010, that the loggerhead turtle be listed as an endangered species. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe)AP - The federal government on Wednesday recommended an endangered-species listing for the loggerhead turtles in U.S. waters, a decision that could lead to tighter restrictions on fishing and other maritime trades.




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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:18:51 +0000
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two studies published on Wednesday show it is possible to sequence the entire gene maps of families with inherited diseases and pinpoint the offending bit of DNA.


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NASA TV Provides Coverage of One Space Station Crew's Return to Earth and Another's Journey There
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST
NASA Television will cover the landing of two current International Space Station crew members and the launch of three upcoming station residents later in March and April.

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Starving sea lion pups wash up on Calif. beaches 
    (AP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:40:33 GMT

A sea lion is shown on the Columbia River near Bonneville Dam Monday, March 8, 2010, in North Bonneville, Wash. Wildlife officials have tried everything to keep sea lions from eating endangered salmon, dropping bombs that explode under water and firing rubber bullets and bean bags from shotguns and boats. Now they are resorting to issuing death sentences to the most chronic offenders.  (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - Marine mammal experts say dozens of hungry and sick sea lion pups have washed up on Southern California beaches this winter and many have died at rescue centers.




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Calcium may help you live longer: study
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:26:43 +0000
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Getting a bit more calcium in your diet could help you live longer, new research suggests.


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NASA TV Media Channel Provides Clean Feeds for News Organizations
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST
NASA Television provides a standard digital television channel as a resource for news media.

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Bouncing Back: Why Some People Get Over Spats Quickly 
    (LiveScience.com)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:30:08 GMT
LiveScience.com - Fighting with a spouse or significant other is generally a downer. But how easily a person bounces back after the conflict can be predicted by activity in a specific region of the brain, a new study finds.

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Scientists find
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:31:02 +0000
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found the "mother," or origin, of all skin cells and say their discovery could dramatically improve skin treatments for victims of serious wounds and burns.


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NASA Offers 'FAST' Opportunities For Zero-G Technology Testing
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST
NASA has announced opportunities to test emerging technologies during flights on an airplane that simulates the weightless conditions of space.

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Al-Qaida suspect from NJ worked at 6 nuke plants 
    (AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:03:25 GMT

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP OF NJME107 OF MARCH 11, 2010 ** This 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010, that the agency is looking into the case of Mobley, who grew up in Buena and is an alleged al-Qaida member raised in New Jersey who is accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen. (AP Photo/Roman Castro) NO SALESAP - An American seized in Yemen in a sweep of suspected al-Qaida members had been a laborer at six U.S. nuclear power plants, and authorities are investigating whether he had access to sensitive information or materials that would be useful to terrorists.




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SpaceX aborts rocket engine test
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:06:30 +0000
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies aborted a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, in what was to be a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and eventually astronauts -- to the International Space Station.


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Heads of Agency International Space Station Joint Statement
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST
The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States met in Tokyo, Japan, on March 11, 2010, to review ISS cooperation.

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AP Interview: Kerry: Energy bill more about jobs 
    (AP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:48:22 GMT

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. talks about efforts to pass energy and climate change legislation, during an interview with The Associated Press interview in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Sen. John Kerry, hoping to win over wavering senators, said he is pushing environmental reforms to create jobs and spark energy independence, with climate benefits along "for the ride."




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Big Bang experiment may reveal dark universe: CERN
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:59:15 +0000
GENEVA (Reuters) - Dark matter, which scientists believe makes up 25 percent of the universe but whose existence has never been proven, could be detected by the giant particle collider at CERN, the research center's head said Monday.


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NASA Briefing Highlights Education Outreach During Next Shuttle Flight
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST
NASA will highlight the educational activities planned on the next space shuttle mission during a news briefing at 12 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, March 9.

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'Killer Electrons' Get Super-Charged Above Earth 
    (SPACE.com)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:17:25 GMT
SPACE.com - When a shock wave from a solar storm hits the Earth's protective magnetic bubble, it creates highly energetic particles dubbed "killer electrons" that can be dangerous to satellites.

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Obama to push White House vision for NASA in April
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:50:26 +0000
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will outline his administration's vision for space agency NASA and an eventual trip to Mars during a conference in Florida in April, the White House said on Sunday.


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NASA Extends Johnson Safety and Mission Assurance Contract
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST
NASA has exercised a $60 million, one-year extension option for a contract with Science Applications International Corporation of Houston to provide support to safety and mission assurance activities at the agency's Johnson Space Center.

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Scientists Find Stem Cells in Hair That Can Become Skin 
    (HealthDay)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:49:36 GMT
HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have found a type of stem cell tucked away in hair follicles that is capable of morphing into all three types of skin cells.

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Scientists say UK risks losing innovation edge
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:31:52 +0000
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain risks decades of slow economic decline unless it invests heavily in research, which at the moment is one of the country's few genuine areas of economic competitive advantage, leading scientists said on Tuesday.


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NASA Launches Interactive Simulation of Satellite Communications
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST
NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation that allows virtual explorers of all ages to dock the space shuttle at the International Space Station, experience a virtual trip to Mars or a lunar impact, and explore images of star formations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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48 Hawaii-only species given endangered listing 
    (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:32:21 GMT

In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an akikiki or Kauai creeper is seen in Kauai, Hawaii. The federal government added the akikiki and 47 other plants and animals to the endangered species list Wendesday, March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Dr. Eric VanderWerf.)AP - Wildlife officials lauded Washington's "holistic approach" to conservation in Hawaii after the Obama administration declared 48 species as endangered and announced plans to set aside more than 40 square miles on Kauai as critical habitat to allow the plants and animals to flourish.




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Scientists find why
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:50:16 +0000
LONDON (Reuters) - Vitamin D is vital in activating human defences and low levels suffered by around half the world's population may mean their immune systems' killer T cells are poor at fighting infection, scientists said on Sunday.


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NASA Hosts First-Ever Water Sustainability Forum March 16 -18
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST
NASA today announced its founding partnership of Launch, an initiative to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to sustainability challenges through a series of forums.

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New Zealand officials visit detained anti-whaler in Japan 
    (AFP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:02:58 GMT

This undated handout obtained from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on February 2010 shows New Zealand's Pete Bethune. Bethune, who has been in custody since he boarded a Japanese harpoon ship in Antarctic waters last month, was arrested when the vessel docked in Tokyo on Friday.(AFP/SSCS-HO/File/Barbara Veiga)AFP - New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune, who is under arrest in Japan for trespass, is reported to be well and in good spirits, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said Saturday.




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It's official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:16:23 +0000
LONDON (Reuters) - A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs, a global scientific team said on Thursday, hoping to settle a row that has divided experts for decades.


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Scientists tease DNA from eggshell of extinct birds 
    (AFP)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:10:03 GMT

A man holds an egg from an extinct elephant bird. In a world first, scientists in Australia announced on Wednesday they had extracted DNA from the fossilised eggshells of extinct birds, including iconic giants such as the moa and elephant bird.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - In a world first, scientists in Australia announced on Wednesday they had extracted DNA from the fossilised eggshells of extinct birds, including iconic giants such as the moa and elephant bird.




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Runaway Prius case presents nagging questions 
    (AP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:36:23 GMT

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 9, 2010 file photo, driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon in El Cajon, Calif. A law firm for the driver who says his Toyota Prius sped out of control in California doesn't plan to sue the Japanese automaker. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)AP - Investigators are confronted with a series of nagging questions as they try to unravel the case of a California real estate agent who said his Toyota Prius turned into a runaway death trap after the gas pedal became stuck.




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The nation's weather 
    (AP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:58:40 GMT
AP - Wet weather was forecast to persist in the Eastern half of the nation Friday as a large low pressure system hovered over the region.

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Comet Makes Death Plunge Toward Sun 
    (SPACE.com)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:33:48 GMT
SPACE.com - A newfound comet is heading for a brush with the sun, one which it will likely not survive.

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Medicine's Future Could Lie in Each Patient's Genome 
    (HealthDay)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:49:33 GMT
HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- Two separate scientific teams announced this week that they had successfully sequenced individual genomes to pinpoint precise genetic causes of illness -- breakthroughs that open the door to a future of individualized, genomics-based medicine.

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'Astonishing' growth in Chinese oil demand: IEA 
    (AFP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:55:15 GMT

A traffic jam during evening rush hour in Beijing in December 2009. China is experiencing AFP - China is experiencing "astonishing" growth in oil demand this year to match its economic rise while consumption in developed economies is falling, the International Energy Agency said on Friday.




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Tornadoes damage 28 units at Fla. golf resort 
    (AP)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:29:10 GMT
AP - Two tornadoes ripped through central Florida, damaging 28 units at a golf resort and leaving five of the condos uninhabitable.

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