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| Math tells NFL teams to go for it on 4th down |
| Fri, 3 Feb 2012 22:47:21 GMT |
 Are fourth-down attempts really a bad decision? Mathematics pounds this sort of conventional wisdom into the turf. Statistical analyses have shown that to give their team the best chance of winning, coaches should go for it more on fourth down. A lot. |
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| Google Earth update erases 'Atlantis' error |
| Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:18:40 GMT |
 A Google Earth map that raised rumors of the lost city of Atlantis has gotten a much-needed update, ridding the seafloor of a gridlike pattern that some vigilant users suspected were sunken streets from the mythological underwater city. |
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| Guinea pigs: Easy-to-pack pets for explorers |
| Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:14:06 GMT |
 It may seem a prestigious post for a rodent, but the guinea pigs that are fixtures in elementary school classrooms today were once ambassadors from a new land. |
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| First fossil of 'vampire' bat fly discovered |
| Fri, 3 Feb 2012 21:30:59 GMT |
 A one-of-a-kind fossil shows that so-called bat flies — tiny vampire insects that survive on the blood of bats — have been parasitizing the winged mammals and spreading bat malaria for at least 20 million years, scientists report in a pair of studies Friday. |
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| Visualizing science: These pictures take the prize |
| Thu, 2 Feb 2012 19:09:10 GMT |
 Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Visualizing science has come a long way since the days of overhead projectors — to see how far we've come, check out the winners of a competition that highlights the artistic side of science and engineering. |
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| Very rare 'supergiant' crustaceans netted |
| Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:02:49 GMT |
 Scientists on an expedition to sample a deep-sea trench got a surprise when their traps brought back seven giant crustaceans glimpsed only a handful of times in human history. |
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| Sex and parenting genes found in mice |
| Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:20:43 GMT |
 Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but how did they get there? Our gender differences might be a function of how our brains react to hormones, a new study on mice suggests. |
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| Window allows a look into live brain |
| Thu, 2 Feb 2012 20:35:29 GMT |
 What if we had a glass window into the brain that lets us look inside? For the first time ever, a team of physicists, chemists and biologists has done just that. Led by a microscopy pioneer, they peered into a living mouse's brain using powerful technology. |
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| Humpbacks share ocean, but not their songs |
| Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:52:56 GMT |
 Humpback whales living on different sides of the southern Indian Ocean bellow very different songs, suggesting the behemoths don't mingle much, or at least they aren't freely sharing their musical material, a new study finds. |
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| 365 new species discovered in Peruvian park |
| Thu, 2 Feb 2012 23:14:19 GMT |
 Hundreds of species never before seen in a Peruvian national park have been found during an inventory of the Amazonian forests there, according to a conservation group. |
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| Museum discovers a twin of the 'Mona Lisa' |
| Fri, 3 Feb 2012 03:58:38 GMT |
 A "Mona Lisa" copy owned by Spain's Prado Museum was almost certainly painted by one of Leonardo da Vinci's apprentices alongside the master himself as he did the original, museum officials said Wednesday. |
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| Released lizards show evolution at work |
| Thu, 2 Feb 2012 21:55:40 GMT |
 Like something out of reality TV, scientists released pairs of small lizards onto tiny uninhabited islands in the Bahamas and watched what happened. The reptiles played for survival, allowing the voyeuristic researchers to witness the interaction between evolutionary processes rarely observed in nature. |
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| Groundhog Day myth stretches back centuries |
| Thu, 2 Feb 2012 17:36:11 GMT |
 On Thursday, a roly-poly rodent named Punxsutawney Phil was hoisted from his burrow in front of TV cameras and cheering crowds and called upon to predict the weather. Phil saw his shadow, which, according to legend, means that winter is here to stay for six more weeks. Weird tradition, huh? |
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| Ask USA TODAY Weather |
| Fri, 5 Feb 2010 17:38:32 GMT |
Where is the top of a tornado? How much melted snow does an inch of rain equal? Are we in an El Nino? These and many more weather questions are answered in our online weather Q and A column.   |
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| Butterflies losing habitats due to climate |
| Fri, 5 Feb 2010 16:19:39 GMT |
A study of beleaguered butterflies in California provides some of the best clues yet as to how other animals may react to climate change, scientists say.   |
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| China doubles wind power in 1 year |
| Wed, 3 Feb 2010 17:28:44 GMT |
China doubled the amount of energy generated from windmills last year, a report from the global wind industry said Wednesday.   |
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| Iran sends rocket with animal menagerie into space |
| Wed, 3 Feb 2010 17:41:27 GMT |
Iran announced Wednesday it has successfully launched a research rocket carrying a mouse, two turtles and worms into space -- a feat President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said showed Iran could defeat the West in the battle of technology.   |
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| President Obama kills NASA's moon mission plans |
| Tue, 2 Feb 2010 07:08:31 GMT |
President Obama is redirecting America's space program, killing NASA's $100 billion plans to return astronauts to the moon and using much of that money for new rocket technology research.   |
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| A science book worth your time |
| Mon, 1 Feb 2010 16:45:48 GMT |
Time waits for no man. But when it comes to time, one man, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll, might be worth yours.   |
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| Deadly fish virus found in Lake Superior |
| Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:05:02 GMT |
Researchers say a fatal fish virus has been found in Lake Superior for the first time, meaning it has spread to all the Great Lakes.   |
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| Malaria kills twice as many as thought: study |
| Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:58:39 -0500 |
| LONDON (Reuters) - Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people worldwide a year, nearly twice as many as previously thought, according to new research published on Friday that questions years of assumptions about the mosquito-borne disease. |
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| NASA confident in Russia despite space accidents |
| Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:11:17 -0500 |
| CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Despite a spate of Russian space accidents last year, NASA remains confident in its partner's ability to fly crew and cargo to the International Space Station, the program manager said on Thursday. |
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| Russia blames Mars probe failure on space radiation |
| Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:22:32 -0500 |
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia blamed radiation on Tuesday for a computer glitch that doomed its Mars moon mission, but space industry experts cast doubt on the findings of an investigation into the crash of what was to be Moscow's first deep space mission in two decades. |
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| Siblings' brain scans may hold key to addictions |
| Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:10:00 -0500 |
| LONDON (Reuters) - Drug addicts and their non-addicted siblings share certain features in the brain, suggesting a susceptibility to addiction is inherited but is also a flaw that can be overcome, scientists said on Thursday. |
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| OHB confirms won Galileo satellite contract from EU |
| Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:04:01 -0500 |
| FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's OHB AG confirmed it won a 250 million euro ($330 million) contract to build eight satellites for the European Union's Galileo navigation system. |
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| No big Fukushima health impact seen: U.N. body chairman |
| Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:15:04 -0500 |
| VIENNA (Reuters) - The health impact of last year's Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan appears relatively small thanks partly to prompt evacuations, the chairman of a U.N. scientific body investigating the effects of radiation said on Tuesday. |
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| U.S. panel defends call to censor bird flu studies |
| Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:00:30 -0500 |
| CHICAGO (Reuters) - A potentially deadlier form of the bird flu virus poses one of the gravest known threats to humans and justifies an unprecedented call to censor the research that produced it, a top U.S. biosecurity official said on Tuesday. |
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| Snowy owls soar south from Arctic in rare mass migration |
| Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:53:41 -0500 |
| SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Bird enthusiasts are reporting rising numbers of snowy owls from the Arctic winging into the lower 48 states this winter in a mass southern migration that a leading owl researcher called "unbelievable." |
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| Arctic ice melt lifts hopes for Russian maritime trade |
| Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:07:46 -0500 |
| SEVERODVINSK, Russia (Reuters) - When severe snowstorms prevented life-sustaining fuel supplies from reaching the frozen Alaskan town of Nome, U.S. officials turned to a Russian company for help. |
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| Russia to delay space mission due to technical problems |
| Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:38:10 -0500 |
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to delay the next mission carrying U.S. and Russian astronauts to the International Space Station by several weeks due to problems with the spaceship's descent vehicle, Interfax news agency quoted an industry source as saying Friday. |
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| Micron CEO dies in plane crash |
| Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:37:27 EST |
| Steve Appleton was the only one in the plane when it crashed at the Boise airport Friday morning |
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