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After 9 months in space, mouse sperm yield healthy mice

After nine months in space, mouse sperm has yielded healthy mice, Japanese scientists reported Monday. The freeze-dried sperm ...

Climate change taking toll on clarity of Lake Tahoe water

Climate change is causing Lake Tahoe to warm sooner in the spring than it has historically, disrupting the normal mixing of ...

'Winged' snake species from 5 million years ago discovered

A new species of snake that lived roughly 5 million years ago has been discovered at a fossil site in Tennessee. A study ...

Review: 'Apollo 8' tells thrilling story of moon mission

"Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon" (Henry Holt), by Jeffrey Kluger In "Apollo 8: The Thrilling ...

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Science Says: Medications prevent opioid addiction relapse

Remarks by a top U.S. health official have reignited a quarrel in the world of addiction and recovery: Does treating opioid ...

China says no mining in its immediate plans for Antarctica

China plans to expand its scientific research in Antarctica in coming years amid worries over the area's susceptibility to ...

Oil company watches over pregnant polar bear under bridge

A pregnant polar bear seeking to dig her maternity den chose an unlikely spot: a snow drift along a bridge leading to an ...

Exhibit explores heyday of Atlantic Ocean luxury liners

This was the golden era for ocean travel: when ladies wore floor-length ball gowns, sometimes with parasols in hand, and ...

Survey: New Hampshire lost an average 65 percent of beehives

A first-time survey by the New Hampshire Beekeepers Association shows the state lost an average of 65 percent of its beehives ...

'Drogon' the ant on annual Top 10 list of new species

Drogon the ant joins a pink bush cricket and a freshwater stingray on this year's Top 10 list of new species.

China, Japan extract combustible ice from seafloor

Commercial development of the globe's huge reserves of a frozen fossil fuel known as "combustible ice" has moved closer to ...

US forecasters: Here comes another hotter than normal summer

U.S. forecasters are predicting another warmer than normal summer for most of the country along with wetter weather in a ...

Ohio high school students get pepper-sprayed for class

A group of Ohio high school students voluntarily got pepper-sprayed in the face — and called the painful experience a useful ...

California tortoises died trying to reproduce during drought

Scientists examining the deaths of female desert tortoises in Southern California said it appears the animals died while ...

Go west, young pine: US forests shifting with climate change

A warmer, wetter climate is helping push dozens of Eastern U.S. trees to the north and, surprisingly, west, a new study finds

New Zealand quake scientists discover surprise: Hot water

When researchers in New Zealand drilled deep into an earthquake fault, they stumbled upon a discovery they say could provide ...

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Nicholas Sand, creator of famous Orange Sunshine LSD, dies

Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann may have invented LSD, and Timothy Leary was clearly its most prominent frontman. But it was ...

Tiny uninhabited Pacific isle has 38 million pieces of trash

When researchers traveled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an ...

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Gray Wolf Pups Make Their Debut at Chicago Zoo

Five Mexican gray wolf puppies ventured out of their den at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois on Tuesday. The almost four weeks ...

Aaron Hernandez's fiancee: I don't think death was a suicide

The fiancee of former NFL star Aaron Hernandez said in an interview that she didn't initially believe he had died in his ...