
#60;p>AP - Spirit has always been the unluckier of NASA s twin Mars rovers.
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AP - Remains of the first airplane ever taken to Antarctica, in 1912, have been found by Australian researchers, the team announced.
trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100103/ap_on_sc/as_antarctica_explorer_s_airplaneAP - On a strip of California s Mojave Desert, two dozen rare tortoises could stand in the way of a sprawling solar-energy complex in a case that highlights mounting tensions between wilderness conservation and the nation s quest for cleaner power.
trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100102/ap_on_sc/us_solar_showdownLiveScience.com - In the deep sea, food is scarce and the menu short - so short that at least one organism eats the table along with the fare. In fact, the table may be the main course for Munidopsis andamanica, a crustacean known as a "squat lobster
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AP - The mayor of a mudslide-devastated city urged a precautionary shutdown of Brazil s only nuclear power plants on Sunday due to blocked highways while the discovery of more bodies raised the region s storm-caused death toll to 73.
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AP - Fierce as they are, Tasmanian devils can t beat a contagious cancer that threatens to wipe them out. Now scientists think they ve found the disease s origin, a step in the race to save Australia s snarling marsupial.
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AP - Workers in northern China dug diversion channels and used floating dams and solidifying agents to try to stop a diesel fuel leak that has polluted a large stretch of one waterway from flowing into the Yellow River, the water source for millions
trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100103/ap_on_re_as/as_china_oil_spillSPACE.com - Six years ago, NASA s Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity touched down on the red planet with a team of scientists eagerly looking ahead to their short, three-month missions.
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#60;p>AP - NASA s new planet-hunting telescope has found two mystery objects that are too hot to be planets and too small to be stars.
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AP - A marine biologist says he has discovered a new crab species off the coast of southern Taiwan that looks like a strawberry with small white bumps on its red shell.
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AFP - The French government decided Tuesday that a new carbon tax to fight global warming will go into force in July, a week after the constitutional court struck down a previous version of the measure.
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Reuters - TIAA-CREF has become the first large U.S. fund complex to sell stakes in a group of Asian energy companies over human rights concerns in Sudan.
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