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    Everything looks good for Saturday shuttle launch (AP)

    The sun rises over the space shuttle Discovery Friday May 30, 2008 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Discovery and her crew of seven astronauts are preparing for Saturday afternoon's planned liftoff and 13 day mission to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - With good weather in the offing and no bumps in the countdown, NASA pushed ahead with Saturday's planned launch of space shuttle Discovery on a delivery trip to the international space station.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 18:17:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Brazil's top court approves stem cell research (AP)

    A group of handicapped people leave Brazil´s Supreme Court's building after attending an audience about stem cell research in Brasilia, Thursday, May 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - Brazil's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that scientists can conduct embryonic stem cell research, which holds the promise of curing Parkinson's disease and diabetes but raises ethical concerns about the limits on human life.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 02:31:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Quake may force China's famed panda reserve to move: report (AFP)

    A general view of the damaged China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong, a small town about 30 kilometres from the epicentre of the magnitude-8.0 earthquake, in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, on May 23. The world-famous reserve has been so badly damaged by this month's earthquake that it will probably have to be relocated, state media reported Friday.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - China's world-famous Wolong Giant Panda Reserve has been so badly damaged by this month's earthquake that it will probably have to be relocated, state media reported Friday.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 03:40:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Mars probe Phoenix flexes robotic arm (AFP)

    NASA's Phoenix Mars lander flexed its robotic arm Thursday in a successful test of the key element in the probe's mission to investigate the Red Planet's soil for conditions conducive to life, NASA said.(AFP iactive)AFP - NASA's Phoenix Mars lander flexed its robotic arm Thursday in a successful test of the key element in the probe's mission to investigate the Red Planet's soil for conditions conducive to life, NASA said.


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    Thu, 29 May 2008 23:23:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Mudslides hit Italy, France, Belgium: reports (AFP)

    The aftermath of a landslide in Turin. Flooding and mudslides left at least two people dead in northern Italy after heavy rains that also hit France and Belgium(AFP/Luigi Bertello)AFP - Flooding and mudslides left at least two people dead in northern Italy after heavy rains that also hit France and Belgium, reports said, with dangerous weather likely to continue on Friday.


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    Fri, 30 May 2008 07:19:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Pre-Humans Shuffled Before Walking (LiveScience.com)
    LiveScience.com - There have been many suggestions for how and why our hominid ancestors got out of the trees and started walking. The latest: a prehistoric shuffle driven by an empty belly. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 19:55:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Phoenix Mars Lander ready to flex its robotic arm (AP)

    This approximate color image provided by NASA shows the view obtained on sol 2 (Tuesday May 27, 2008) by the Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) on board the Phoenix lander. The view is toward the northwest, showing polygonal terrain near the lander and out to the horizon. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University)AP - The Phoenix lander is getting ready to flex its muscles on Mars. The spacecraft successfully freed its 8-foot robotic arm from the restraints that kept it folded up and protected from vibrations during the launch and landing, scientists said Thursday. Preparations are now under way to partially flex the arm.


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    Thu, 29 May 2008 21:56:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Egypt planning DNA test for 3,500-year-old mummy (AP)
    AP - Egypt plans to conduct a DNA test on a 3,500-year-old mummy to determine if it is King Thutmose I, one of the most important pharaohs, the country's chief archaeologist said Thursday. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 21:36:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    World's rarest rhino caught wrecking video camera (AP)

    In this still captured from undated video provided by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a female Javan Rhino, right, and her calf walk into a camera trap in Ujung Kulon Wildlife Park, Java island, Indonesia. The world's rarest rhino does not like the limelight. A Javan Rhino has been captured on video attacking a camera set up in an Indonesian jungle to study the habits of the animal, apparently because she sensed the lens was a threat to her calf, the WWF said Thursday, May 29, 2008. (AP Photo/World Wildlife Fund, HO)AP - The world's rarest rhino does not like the limelight. A Javan Rhino was captured on video attacking a camera set up in an Indonesian jungle to study the habits of the animal, apparently because she sensed the lens was a threat to her calf, the WWF said Thursday.


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    Thu, 29 May 2008 21:38:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Study: Stonehenge was a burial site for centuries (AP)

    Lights in nearby Amesbury set low-hanging clouds aglow over Stonehenge. The photograph is a two-page extended double-spread in an article on Stonehenge in the June 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. (©2008 National Geographic/Ken Geiger/Handout/Reuters)AP - England's enigmatic Stonehenge served as a burial ground from its earliest beginnings and for several hundred years thereafter, new research indicates.


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    Thu, 29 May 2008 23:34:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Iran drought forces power cuts (AFP)

    A general view shows the power plant at Bushehr, 1,000 kms south of Tehran, in 2005. Iran is facing a summer of power cuts after a severe drought slashed output from its hydroelectric power plants, the energy minister warned, according to press reports.(AFP/File/null)AFP - Iran is facing a summer of power cuts after a severe drought slashed output from its hydroelectric power plants, the energy minister warned, according to press reports on Thursday.


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    Thu, 29 May 2008 11:21:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Cameras catch glimpse of world's rarest rhino: WWF (AFP)

    A WWF video grab shows two rhinos in Ujung Kulon national park of West Java province. Environmental group WWF has said hidden cameras in the jungles of Indonesia's Java island have captured rare footage of the world's most threatened rhino, boosting efforts to save it from extinction.(AFP/WWF)AFP - Hidden cameras in the jungles of Indonesia's Java island have captured rare footage of the world's most threatened rhino, boosting efforts to save it from extinction, conservationists said Thursday.


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    Thu, 29 May 2008 15:03:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    NASA packs new toilet parts on shuttle for ISS (AFP)

    NASA handout showing the International Space Station in March 2008. NASA said Thursday they stowed replacement parts aboard the Discovery shuttle Thursday to be sent up to the International Space station to fix its broken Russian toilet.(AFP/NASA-HO/File)AFP - NASA stowed replacement parts aboard the Discovery shuttle Thursday to be sent up to the International Space station to fix its broken Russian toilet, the US space agency said.


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    Thu, 29 May 2008 18:49:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Tropical Storm Alma lashes Central America (AP)
    AP - Tropical Storm Alma lashed the coast of Central America with heavy rains and high winds on Thursday after becoming the first such storm of the eastern Pacific season. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 16:30:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Birth Control Stuck in the Dark Ages (LiveScience.com)
    LiveScience.com - From mood swings to nausea, women accept some side-effects in exchange for reliable, hormone-based birth control, such as the Pill. But that doesn't mean they're happy about it. -- read full article
    Thu, 29 May 2008 18:41:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
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