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	AP Top Science News At 5:38 p.m. EDT
	(Sponsor this newsletter) India launches first mission to Mars NEW DELHI (AP) -- India on Tuesday launched its first spacecraft bound for Mars, a complex mission that it hopes will demonstrate and advance technologies for space travel.... Read More » Study: 8.8 billion Earth-size, just-right planets WASHINGTON (AP) -- Space is vast, but it may not be so lonely after all: A study finds the Milky Way is teeming with billions of planets that are about the size of Earth, orbit stars just like our sun, and exist in the Goldilocks zone - not too hot and not too cold for life.... Read More » Statistics about polar bears, a threatened species The advocacy organization Polar Bears International celebrates Nov. 4-10 as "Polar Bear Week." Some statistics about the threatened species:... Read More » Ohio zoo using beagle to detect bear pregnancies CINCINNATI (AP) -- Zoos around the country will soon find out whether a beagle named Elvis can let them know when their polar bears are pregnant.... Read More » Report: Warming likely to make bad things worse WASHINGTON (AP) -- Many of the ills of the modern world - starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease - are likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts.... Read More » Space pioneer recalled as curious, adventuresome BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- Astronaut Scott Carpenter had an adventuresome spirit and was driven to know everything he could about the universe, fellow space pioneer John Glenn said Saturday at Carpenter's funeral.... Read More » Major oyster reef rebuilding begins on Texas coast MATAGORDA, Texas (AP) -- A deep sea oyster reef restoration being touted as the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico began in an unlikely place: a quarry in landlocked Missouri.... Read More » Nations fail to agree on Antarctic marine reserve WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- The nations that make decisions about Antarctic fishing failed Friday for a third time to agree on a plan that would create the world's largest marine sanctuary.... Read More » Fido's tail wags may reveal more than you think NEW YORK (AP) -- The way Fido wags his tail might reveal more about him than you know. Just ask another dog.... Read More » Scientists fear renewed threat to white pine trees CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A fungus targeting white pine forests has mutated and poses new threats more than a century after it first hit the United States, American and Canadian scientists said Thursday.... Read More » In Boston, helping amputees is this family's biz BOSTON (AP) -- When amputees take their first steps on artificial legs, that moment of triumph can be tinged with a sudden sense of disappointment that things will never be the way they were before.... Read More » UN: CO2 pollution levels at annual record high GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N. weather agency says concentrations of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere have accelerated and reached a record high in 2012.... Read More » Russian fireball shows meteor risk may be bigger WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists studying the terrifying meteor that exploded without warning over a Russian city last winter say the threat of space rocks smashing into Earth is bigger than they thought.... Read More » Brazil lab targeted by animal protesters closes RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- A Brazilian lab that used dogs for drug tests says it's permanently shutting down three weeks after being targeted by protesters who freed nearly 180 beagles.... Read More »
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