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    Explorers find 1780 British warship in Lake Ontario (AP)

    This handout image from video released Friday, June 13, 2008 by Jim Kennard and Dan Scoville, shows the crows nest and foremast of the sunken 228-year-old British warship HMS Ontario, a British warship built in1780 that has been discovered in deep water off the southern shore of Lake Ontario. Kennard and Scoville used side scanning sonar and an unmanned submersible to locate the HMS Ontario, which was lost with barely a trace and as many as 130 people on board during a gale in 1780. (AP Photo/ courtesy of Jim Kennard and Dan Scoville)AP - A 22-gun British warship that sank during the American Revolution and has long been regarded as one of the "Holy Grail" shipwrecks in the Great Lakes has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Ontario, astonishingly well-preserved in the cold, deep water, explorers announced Friday.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:33:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Weather appears good for shuttle's landing (AP)

    In this image provided by NASA backdropped by a blue and white part of Earth, the International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Discovery as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation on Wednesday June 11, 2008. Earlier the STS-124 and Expedition 17 crews concluded almost nine days of cooperative work onboard the shuttle and station.(AP Photo/NASA)AP - The weather looked favorable for space shuttle Discovery to return to Earth Saturday after a two-week mission in which it delivered a new Japanese lab to the international space station.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:19:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    US wants biotech to help solve global food crisis (AFP)

    US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte delivers a speech during a press conference on June 2, 2008. Negropontel on Friday urged countries to remove barriers to the use of biotechnology and other innovations that would increase food production at a time of crisis.(AFP/File/Rodrigo Arangua)AFP - A senior US official on Friday urged countries to remove barriers to the use of biotechnology and other innovations that would increase food production at a time of crisis.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:51:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Turkey, Syria eye nuclear energy cooperation: agency (Reuters)
    Reuters - Turkey and Syria are considering setting up a joint energy company and could build joint nuclear power plants for electricity, Syria's oil minister was quoted as saying on Friday. -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:57:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    New Canadian Dinosaur Largely Mysterious (LiveScience.com)
    LiveScience.com - A prospecting geologist stumbled upon a ragtag bunch of bones in the northern part of British Columbia, more than three decades ago. A new study suggests these fossils could represent a new species of dinosaur. But beyond that, the dinosaur's identity is a mystery - sort of a Dino Doe. The small collection of bones includes seven shin, arm and toe bones, as well as a possible skull fragment. Based on the shapes and sizes of the bones, paleontologists think they could have belonged to a type of small- to medium-sized dinosaur, possibly a pachycephalosaur or ornithopod. ... -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:55:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Astronauts spot object floating from shuttle, NASA not worried (AFP)

    US space shuttle Discovery's aft section as seen from the International Space Station (ISS) on June 3, 2008. Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery have spotted an unidentified object floating behind the craft, as well as a bump on the shuttle rudder.(AFP/NASA)AFP - Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery spotted an unidentified object floating behind the craft as well as a bump on the shuttle rudder on Friday but neither was cause for concern, NASA said.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:24:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Rising flood waters swamp Iowa town, 15 dead (AFP)

    Brandon Smith carries his two cats, Fry and Bender, to dry land from their flooded and evacuated home on June 11, 2008 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Rising flood waters swamped the river city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa Friday, forcing residents to flee their homes, and officials to abandon city hall amid a crisis that has left 15 people dead.(AFP/Getty Images/David Greedy)AFP - Rising flood waters swamped the river city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa Friday, forcing residents to flee their homes, and officials to abandon city hall amid a crisis that has left 15 people dead.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:16:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Major Breakup Threatens Antarctic Ice Shelf (LiveScience.com)
    LiveScience.com - A large chunk of one of Antarctica's ice shelves broke off at the end of May, new satellite images show, marking the second major breakup of the shelf this year and the first documented episode to occur in winter. The European Space Agency's Envisat satellite captured images of an area of ice about 62 square miles (160 square kilometers) breaking off of the Wilkins Ice Shelf from May 30 to 31. The Wilkins Ice Shelf is a broad plate of floating ice south of South America on the Antarctic Peninsula. It connects two islands, Charcot and Latady. ... -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:46:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Johns Hopkins raps AP story on lead experiment (AP)
    AP - For about 20 years, Dr. Michael Klag has used a fertilizer made from Milwaukee municipal sludge on azaleas and yew shrubs at his suburban Baltimore home. And Klag, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, says he's never had any question about its safety. -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:59:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Scientists: 115-year-old's brain worked perfectly (AP)

    Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, who died at age 115 in 2005, is seen in this  May 26, 2004 photo at de Westerkim, home for the elderly, in Hoogeveen, Netherlands. Scientists say that Henrikje van Andel-Schipper's mind was probably as good as it seemed: a post-mortem analysis of her brain revealed few signs of Alzheimer's or other diseases commonly associated with a decline in mental ability in old age. 'This is the first (extremely old) brain that did not have these problems,' Professor Gert Holstege of Groningen University said, whose findings will be published in the August edition of Neurobiology of Aging. Van Andel was the oldest living person in the world at the time of her death in 2005, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. (AP Photos/ Francois Wieringa, File)AP - A Dutch woman who was the oldest person in the world when she died at age 115 in 2005 appeared sharp right up to the end, joking that pickled herring was the secret to her longevity.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:21:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    NASA: Metal clip fell off shuttle but not problem (AP)

    This image provided by NASA shows a view of the Space Shuttle Discovery soon after the shuttle and the International Space Station began their post-undocking relative separation on Wednesday June 11, 2008. One of the Expedition 17 crewmembers recorded the photo with a digital still camera. Landing is targeted for Kennedy Space Center at 11:15 a.m. on Saturday. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - A metal clip fell from Discovery's brakes on Friday but NASA said it won't delay the space shuttle's scheduled landing on Saturday.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:44:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Stem cell experts offer guide to fight "snake oil" (Reuters)

    Archbishop Joseph Naumann, of Kansas City, presents a report on stem-cell research during the general meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Orlando, Fla., Thursday, June 12, 2008.  (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)Reuters - Some unethical Web sites and clinics are offering "snake oil" treatments that claim to provide cures using stem cells but are at best raising false hopes, stem cell experts said on Thursday.


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    Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:58:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    House Republicans vow push on oil drilling (Reuters)
    Reuters - Congressional Republicans vowed on Thursday to make a major push for more U.S. oil and gas drilling and in the process force Democrats to cast difficult votes at a time of skyrocketing gasoline prices. -- read full article
    Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:58:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    NASA taps Oceaneering to build spacesuits for moon (Reuters)
    Reuters - NASA has turned to a new lead contractor to build spacesuits for its revived lunar exploration program that aims to land astronauts on the moon again by 2020, officials said on Thursday. -- read full article
    Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:34:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Families, troops mourn 4 Scouts killed in tornado (AP)

    Eight-year-old Cub Scout Baileigh Rohde holds a candle and looks up at Boy Scout Josh Dohse, left, during a candlelight vigil in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, June 12, 2008, for the four Boy Scouts killed after a twister flattened their camp in Iowa Wednesday night. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP - First came the shock, then the grief. As dozens of people injured in a tornado at an Iowa Boy Scout camp recovered, families and friends tried to make sense of the deaths of four teenage Scouts who had gone to the elite camp to learn how to be leaders.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:36:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
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