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AP Top Science News At 8:05 a.m. EDT
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NASA fixes moonship shaking with shock absorbers
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A space-age version of the rusty springs under old pickup trucks will help NASA fix the most pressing technical problem with its high-tech new rocket to send astronauts back to the moon....
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Group says climate resolutions increase
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Support for climate-change proposals may be growing among investors in big U.S. companies....
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Stem cell advance may help transfusion supplies
NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists say they've found an efficient way to make red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, a possible step toward making transfusion supplies in the laboratory. The promise of a virtually limitless supply is tantalizing because of blood donor shortages and disappointments in creating blood substitutes....
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Researchers say numbers aren't needed to count
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Answer this without counting: Are there more X's here XXXXXX, or here XXXXX? That's a problem facing people whose languages don't include words for more than one or two. Yet researchers say children who speak those languages are still able to compare quantities....
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Prospects grim for abandoned baby whale in Sydney
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- A hungry and abandoned humpback whale calf that has been trying to suckle from boats in the waters off north Sydney rebuffed fresh attempts by wildlife workers to return it to the open ocean Wednesday and appeared to be weakening....
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Clinton: US should demonstrate energy solutions
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The United States can capture the world's imagination by creating an energy independent state, territory or nation, former President Bill Clinton told an energy summit....
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Australian PM urges more US climate change action
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urged the United States on Tuesday to take more action on climate change and become more involved in the global debate on the issue....
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Iran tests rocket for future launch of satellite
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran has test launched a rocket it plans to use to carry a research satellite into orbit, state television reported Sunday....
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Mummified remains from 1948 plane crash identified
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Nine years of sleuthing, advanced DNA science and cutting-edge forensic techniques have finally put a name to a mummified hand and arm found in an Alaska glacier....
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In Germany, wandering whale creates wonderment
BERLIN (AP) -- Germans have been treated to the rare sight of a lone and wayward humpback whale swimming in the Baltic Sea, but marine biologists said it may be doomed because the waterway lacks the conditions such mammals need to survive....
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