AP - Researchers are deploying new wheat varieties with an array of resistant genes they hope will baffle and defeat Ug99, a highly dangerous fungus leapfrogging through wheat fields in Africa and Asia.
trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090317/ap_on_sc/lt_mexico_wheat_rustLiveScience.com - One proposed plan to save the planet from global warming - by injecting particles to intercept the sun s light - would have the unintended, and ironic, effect of making a key alternative energy source, solar power, less effective, a
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AFP - Meat-eating dinosaurs the size of a small chicken roamed areas of North America 75 million years ago, according to research by Canadian paleontologists.
trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090317/sc_afp/uscanadapaleontologydinosaurLiveScience.com - Last week President Obama lifted restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research and asked the National Institutes of Health to come up with a funding game plan within 120 days. Yet while the field of stem cell rese
trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090317/sc_livescience/embryonicstemcells5misconceptionsAP - A major Pacific storm was bearing down on the West Coast on Sunday that was expected to bring winter-like conditions and precipitation from the coast through the Rockies.
trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090322/ap_on_we_us/weatherpage_weatherSPACE.com - WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama has named a second man previously considered for NASA administrator to another post in the administration by reappointing Steve Isakowitz to chief financial officer of the U.S. Department of Energy
trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090322/sc_space/nasachiefcandidateappointedtodoepostAP - China #039;s lunar probe crashed into the moon Sunday in a controlled collision at the end of a 16-month mission, state media reported.
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AFP - China will launch a space module next year and carry out the nation s first space docking in 2011 as a step towards its goal of building a space station, state media said Sunday.
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AFP - A shark bit a teenage surfer s leg to the bone off a Sydney beach early Sunday -- the Australian city s third attack in as many weeks, police said.
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AP - Iraq s parliament pushed back voting Saturday on this year s budget and could be forced to make further cuts because of falling oil prices.
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AP - As Congress tries to clean up the nation s energy sources and cut gases blamed for global warming, it is struggling to do so in its own backyard.
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trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/wcom/20090301/we_wcom/hurricane_season2008AP - The jobs are temporary, at basic wages, and some involve cleaning up after zoo animals. But Britain is suffering a recession, so when the help-wanted ads appeared, about 3,000 people applied, including laid-off executives and company bosses.
trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090301/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_zooLiveScience.com - A new analysis of survey data finds women pray more often then men, are more likely to believe in God, and are more religious than men in a variety of other ways.
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