Friday, May 24, 2013

FeedaMail: AP Top Science News At 5:38 p.m. EDT

feedamail.com AP Top Science News At 5:38 p.m. EDT

NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore....

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Hurricane outlook: Another busy Atlantic season

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) -- Get ready for another busy hurricane season, maybe an unusually wild one, federal forecasters say....

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2013 hurricane names: From Andrea to Wendy

Weather forecasters are predicting another busy Atlantic hurricane season. The storms will get their names from an alphabetical list of 21 names:...

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Study: Amphibians disappearing at alarming rate

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs and other amphibians are disappearing around the United States, and the news is not good....

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Cockroaches quickly lose sweet tooth to survive

NEW YORK (AP) -- For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong....

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Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world's largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution....

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Solar plane completes 2nd leg of trip in Texas

DALLAS (AP) -- A solar-powered plane has landed in Texas, completing the second leg of a trip across the United States....

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Doctors save Ohio boy by 'printing' an airway tube

In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day....

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Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Everything had to come together just perfectly to create the killer tornado in Moore, Okla.: wind speed, moisture in the air, temperature and timing. And when they did, the awesome energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima....

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More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knows

A deadly tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday. A quick look at some basic facts:...

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Oklahoma gets far more than its share of disasters

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Many states get hit frequently with tornadoes and other natural catastrophes, but Oklahoma is Disaster Central....

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