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    Groups seek drilling halt near sage grouse habitat (AP)
    AP - Two conservation groups have asked the federal government to impose new restrictions on oil and gas development in the West to protect the greater sage grouse, a popular game bird on the decline. -- read full article
    Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:56:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Scientists say ailing penguins signal sea problems (AP)

    Shown in this June 30, 2000 file photo, an oil-stained penguin is seen in the water on Dassen Island, near Cape Town, South Africa.  In a paper published in the July edition of the journal Bioscience conservation biologist P. Dee Boersma says that dwindling march of the penguins is signaling that the world's oceans are in trouble. (AP Photo /Obed Zilwa, File)AP - The dwindling march of the penguins is signaling that the world's oceans are in trouble, scientists now say. Penguins may be the tuxedo-clad version of a canary in the coal mine, with generally ailing populations from a combination of global warming, ocean oil pollution, depleted fisheries, and tourism and development, according to a new scientific review paper.


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    Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:16:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Study finds long benefit in illegal mushroom drug (AP)
    AP - In 2002, at a Johns Hopkins University laboratory, a business consultant named Dede Osborn took a psychedelic drug as part of a research project. -- read full article
    Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:59:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Pentagon will buy satellites to do more spying (AP)

    In this June 27, 2006, file photo a Boeing's Delta 4 rocket, carrying a a spy satellite skyward on a classified mission, is launched into space at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.  Military and industry officials say that in the first week of July 2008, it will be announced that the Pentagon will buy and operate up to two commercial imagery satellites and plans to design and build a third with more sophisticated capabilities to spy on enemy troop movements, spot construction at suspected nuclear sites and alert commanders to new militant training camps, government. (AP Photo/Gene Blevins, File)AP - The Pentagon will buy and operate one or two commercial imagery satellites and plans to design and build another with more sophisticated spying capabilities, according to government and private industry officials.


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    Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:17:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Futuristic Chembots Squeeze Through Small Spaces (LiveScience.com)
    LiveScience.com - Soft and squishy chemical robots will one day squeeze through tight spots then expand to 10 times larger, offering an advantage over rigid robots. Once a mission is complete, a chembot would biodegrade. -- read full article
    Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:25:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Groups seek drilling halt near sage grouse habitat (AP)
    AP - Two conservation groups have asked the federal government to impose new restrictions on oil and gas development in the West to protect the greater sage grouse, a popular game bird on the decline. -- read full article
    Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:48:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Study finds long benefit in illegal mushroom drug (AP)
    AP - In 2002, at a Johns Hopkins University laboratory, a business consultant named Dede Osborn took a psychedelic drug as part of a research project. She felt like she was taking off. She saw colors. Then it felt like her heart was ripping open. But she called the experience joyful as well as painful, and says that it has helped her to this day. -- read full article
    Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:07:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Canary in a tux? Penguin woes signal sea problems (AP)

    Shown in this June 30, 2000 file photo, an oil-stained penguin is seen in the water on Dassen Island, near Cape Town, South Africa.  In a paper published in the July edition of the journal Bioscience conservation biologist P. Dee Boersma says that dwindling march of the penguins is signaling that the world's oceans are in trouble. (AP Photo /Obed Zilwa, File)AP - The dwindling march of the penguins is signaling that the world's oceans are in trouble, scientists now say. Penguins may be the tuxedo-clad version of a canary in the coal mine, with generally ailing populations from a combination of global warming, ocean oil pollution, depleted fisheries, and tourism and development, according to a new scientific review paper.


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    Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:49:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    New record crude prices up pressure on oil industry (AFP)

    A flame from a Saudi Aramco oil instalation known as AFP - Oil prices surged to new highs Monday as leading figures from the energy industry gathered in Madrid amid growing public anger at the high cost of fuel and increasing concerns about inflation.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:48:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Weather around the U.S.A. (AP)
    AP - Weather around the U.S.A. -- read full article
    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:27:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Study: World Gets Happier (LiveScience.com)
    LiveScience.com - Despite the anxieties of these times, happiness has been on the rise around the world in recent years, a new survey finds. -- read full article
    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:16:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Lightning sparks more than 800 wildfires in Northern California (Yahoo! Home Page - RSS)
    Yahoo! Home Page - RSS - Lightning sparks more than 800 wildfires in Northern California -- read full article
    Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:14:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Want scientific immortality? Name a sea worm (AP)

    Jeff Goodhartz holds an image of a new species of Belize Featherworm while sitting in a science classroom at Granite Hills High School, where he is currently teaching, in El Cajon, Calif., on Wednesday, June 4, 2008. Goodhartz bought the naming rights for the worm from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which unveiled its name-a-species program earlier this year. This modern twist on taxonomy is a way to raise research money, and many groups have been doing it. (AP Photo/Sandy Huffaker)AP - Jeff Goodhartz is single and has no children. But he wanted to ensure the family name would live on after he's gone.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:27:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Sea turtle Dylan is released back into the wild (AP)

    Dylan, a nine-year-old the sea turtle, is examined by biologist from the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, Sunday June 29, 2008 in Jekyll Island, Ga. for her release on Monday. Dylan was rescued as a hatchling and has lived her life in captivity. She was fitted with a satellite transmitter so wildlife biologist can track her movement and collect data in the years to come. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)AP - A 150-pound sea turtle raised by humans returned to freedom on Monday after nine years of captivity, swimming away after the veterinarians who cared for her helped steer her toward the ocean.


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    Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:46:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    World Petroleum Congress opens in Madrid (AFP)

    An oil derrick at a Chevron manufacturing facility in Belle Chasse, Louisiana in late May. Leading figures from the oil world are set to gather in Madrid for one of the industry's biggest events focusing on the future of the sector at a time of unprecedented crude prices(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)AFP - The 19th World Petroleum Congress opened in Madrid on Sunday night, with key players in the sector meeting to discuss the future of the industry amid soaring oil prices and a widening gulf between consumer nations and producers.


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    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:50:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
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