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    Penguins ride air force jet to South Atlantic (AP)

    In this photo released Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 by International Fund for Animal Welfare, penguins are released by  environmentalists at the Cassino Beach, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008. More than 370 frigid water penguins that mysteriously stranded in the warm waters of northeastern Brazil have been released into the ocean, environmentalists said. (AP Photo/International Fund for Animal Welfare)AP - More than 370 penguins that mysteriously washed up on Brazil's equatorial beaches were flown south on a huge air force cargo plane and released closer to the frigid waters they call home, animal advocates said Monday.


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    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:18:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Nobel physics prize goes to 2 Japanese, 1 American (AP)

    Retired University of Chicago Physics professor Yoichiro Nambu responds to a question during a news conference after winning the Nobel Prize in Physics on the university campus in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Two Japanese scientists and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for theoretical advances that help explain the behavior of the smallest particles of matter.


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    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:12:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Genes Give Clues to Age-Linked Eye Trouble (HealthDay)
    HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Variants in the gene that helps produce vital proteins in the eye have been linked to age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a major source of blindness, a new report says. -- read full article
    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:47:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Australian boy wreaks zoo havoc while feeding croc (Reuters)

    A large male crocodile watches a crowd gathered for feeding time at Darwin's Crocodile Farm located 100 kilometres south of Darwin in this file photo from May 10, 2005. (David Gray/Reuters)Reuters - The parents of a 7-year-old boy who broke into an Australian outback zoo and fed a string of small animals to its resident crocodile are likely to be sued after police said the boy was too young to be held responsible.


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    Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:39:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Astronomers predict shooting star over Sudan from space boulder (AFP)

    A meteor shower over Bulgaria. Astronomers said a small space rock was expected to have collided with Earth early Tuesday, which would have created a spectacular fireball over Sudan but was unlikely to have caused any damage on the ground(AFP/File/Boryana Katsarova)AFP - Astronomers said a small space rock was expected to have collided with Earth early Tuesday, which would have created a spectacular fireball over Sudan but was unlikely to have caused any damage on the ground.


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    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:34:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Tropical Storm Marco (weather.com)
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    Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:05:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Arctic Grows Stormier (LiveScience.com)
    LiveScience.com - The Arctic has become more stormy in the past 50 years due to the warming climate, which in turn has quickened the pace of drifting sea ice, a new NASA study finds. -- read full article
    Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:33:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Dark matter, new planets could bring physics Nobel (AP)
    AP - Scientists who have pursued dark matter, hunted for undiscovered planets and advanced nanotechnology were being touted Monday as candidates for the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics. -- read full article
    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:33:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Bad connection caused atom smasher shutdown (AP)

    The world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS), at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)'s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particule accelerator in Geneva. Human error was likely to blame for the breakdown of the world's largest atom-smasher, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Monday.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)AP - A bad electrical connection likely caused the malfunction that sidelined the world's largest atom smasher days after it was launched with great fanfare, a senior scientist said Monday.


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    Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:41:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Small asteroid headed for light show over Africa (AP)
    AP - A small asteroid was headed for a fiery but harmless dive into Earth's atmosphere early Tuesday morning over Africa, astronomers said in a first of its kind advance warning. -- read full article
    Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:21:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Lilly bids $6.5 billion for ImClone (Reuters)

    A laboratory researcher in a file photo. (File/Reuters)Reuters - Eli Lilly and Co has agreed to acquire ImClone Systems Inc for $6.5 billion, outbidding Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and probably bringing to a close one of the most colorful corporate sagas in biotech history.


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    Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:31:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Greenpeace activists board coal ship off Spanish coast (AFP)

    Greenpeace activists paint the slogan 'Quit Coal' in English and Spanish onto the side of the Windsor Adventure, a coal cargo ship from Colombia moored up in Gijon on October 5, 2008. Greenpeace activists boarded a cargo ship carrying Colombian coal at a port in northern Spain on Monday in protest at Spain's reliance on the highly polluting energy source.(AFP/HO/File/Jiri Rezac)AFP - Greenpeace activists boarded a cargo ship carrying Colombian coal at a port in northern Spain on Monday in protest at Spain's reliance on the highly polluting energy source.


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    Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:23:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Spacecraft Zooms by Mercury for Second Time (SPACE.com)
    SPACE.com - A NASA probe made its second Mercury flyby early Monday as closes in on the closest planet to the sun. -- read full article
    Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:00:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Tropical Storm Norbert strengthens off Mexico (AP)

    Cheryl Bohl, a chaplain with Victim Relief Ministries, helps with relief efforts in Galveston, Texas, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008. Victim Relief Ministries has deployed more than 150 chaplains and counselors to aid in a 'ministry of compassion' before, during and after Hurricane Ike. The ministry's workers, known as the 'yellow shirts,' have been busy aiding in three hurricanes and one tropical storm this year. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Nick de la Torre)AP - Tropical Storm Norbert is growing toward hurricane force off Mexico's Pacific coast and forecasters say it might bring weekend rains and wind to the Baja California Peninsula.


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    Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:17:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    People Love Angry-Faced Cars (LiveScience.com)

    Orlando Terranova, from Argentina, steers his BMW X3 during the first stage of the Dakar Series Pax Rally in Macao, central Portugal, Wednesday, Sept. 10 2008. The 5-day rally across Portugal ends Sunday in Portimao. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)LiveScience.com - If a Toyota Prius just looks too friendly for your tastes, you're not alone. People readily see faces and traits in cars, and a new study suggests that they prefer cars to appear dominant, masculine and angry.


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    Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:50:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
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