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    Golden retriever adopts tiger cubs at Kansas zoo (AP)

    Isabella, a golden retriever at the Safari Zoological Park, east of Caney, Kan. nurses Wednesday, July 30, 2008, three white tiger cubs she adopted after they were abandoned by their mother at the park. The cubs were born on Sunday. (AP Photo/The Daily Reporter, Rob Morgan)AP - A dog at a southeast Kansas zoo has adopted three tiger cubs abandoned by their mother. Safari Zoological Park owner Tom Harvey said the tiger cubs were born Sunday, but the mother had problems with them.


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    Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:16:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Liquid flowing on surface of Saturn moon: NASA (AFP)

    NASA scientists said Wednesday they had found liquid on Saturn's moon Titan, seen here in a 2005 NASA handout taken from the Cassini probe, only the second body in the solar system after Earth to have fluid on its surface.(AFP/NASA-HO/File)AFP - NASA scientists said Wednesday they had found liquid on Saturn's moon Titan, only the second body in the solar system after Earth to have fluid on its surface.


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    Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:13:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Memorable 2008 severe weather season (weather.com)
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    Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:06:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Now What? Californians to Rehearse 'The Big One' (LiveScience.com)
    LiveScience.com - Some Southern Californians are said to have stampeded yesterday as they tried to evacuate a high-rise during the 5.4-magnitude quake outside Los Angeles. -- read full article
    Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:11:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Puerto Rican police make undersea discovery (AP)
    AP - Police divers checking a report of human remains off a Puerto Rican beach may have made an archaeological discovery: bones and possible artifacts from a colonial-era ship, officials in the U.S. island territory said Wednesday. -- read full article
    Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:36:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    2,100-year-old gadget tracked Olympics (AP)

    A visitor looks at a model replica of an ancient astronomical calculator, known as the Antikythera Mechanism, at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Wednesday, July 30, 2008. Experts from Britain, Greece and the United States say they have found evidence that the ancient device was also used to track dates of the ancient Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Losmi Chobi)AP - An astronomical calculator, considered a technological marvel of antiquity, was also used to track dates of the ancient Olympic games, researchers have found.


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    Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:14:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    NASA says liquid confirmed on Saturn's moon Titan (AP)

    This true-color image taken in visible wavelengths by the Cassini spacecraft on June 10, 2004 and released by NASA on Friday, July 2, 2004, shows Titan, a moon of Saturn, enveloped in a photochemical smog.  At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn's moon Titan studied by the international Cassini spacecraft contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA said Wednesday.(AP Photo/NASA, FILE) (AP Photo/ NASA, JPL, FILE)AP - At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn's moon Titan studied by the international Cassini spacecraft contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA said Wednesday.


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    Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:40:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Researchers find 3 new genes for schizophrenia (Reuters)
    Reuters - International researchers have identified three new DNA variations that increase the risk of schizophrenia and said on Wednesday they were some of the strongest genetic links yet found to the disease. -- read full article
    Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:15:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Bush blames Congress for not acting on gas prices (AP)

    President Bush makes a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, July 30, 2008, following a Cabinet meeting.  From left are, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Vice President Dick Cheney, the president, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.   (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - President Bush, on a campaign to open offshore waters to oil drilling, said Wednesday that the Democratic-run Congress was letting down the American people by refusing to allow votes on the matter.


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    Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:45:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    NASA Moon Probe Launch Delayed for Military Payload (SPACE.com)
    SPACE.com - WASHINGTON - NASA has delayed the launch of its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from late this year until the end of February at the earliest to make way for a military payload slated to fly atop a similar vehicle. -- read full article
    Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:15:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Weather around the U.S.A. (AP)
    AP - Weather around the U.S.A. -- read full article
    Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:51:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    How Snakes Got Their Fangs (LiveScience.com)
    LiveScience.com - Biologists have sunk their teeth into the question of snake fang development, revealing how these poison prickers have evolved from regular teeth and allowed snakes to become such champion biters. -- read full article
    Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:25:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    NASA uses remote sand dunes as stand-in for moon (AP)

    A K-10 Red robot is seen June 10, 2008, in Moses Lake, Wash.  NASA scientists and contractors spent two weeks in Moses Lake field testing some of the vehicles and robots that will be used when humans return to the moon later this century. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Two NASA astronauts in spacesuits drove their lunar truck up a steep sand dune in a barren, wind-swept landscape so forbidding it was reminiscent of the surface of the moon.


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    Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:47:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    7-square-mile ice sheet breaks loose in Canada (AP)

    A chunk of ice is shown drifting after it separated from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf off the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada's far north on Sunday July 27, 2008. The sheet is the biggest piece shed by one of Canada's six ice shelves since the Ayles shelf broke loose in 2005 from the coast of Ellesmere, about 500 miles from the North Pole.  (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sam Soja)AP - A chunk of ice spreading across seven square miles has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic, scientists said Tuesday.


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    Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:09:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Bush pushes Congress to expand offshore drilling (Reuters)

    President George W. Bush gives a speech about energy and the economy at the Lincoln Electric Company in Euclid, Ohio, July 29, 2008. (Larry Downing/Reuters)Reuters - President George W. Bush on Tuesday again called on Congress to pass legislation that would give energy companies access to billions of barrels of oil in U.S. waters where energy exploration is now banned.


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    Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:52:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
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