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Hunters helped save rare bird from extinction
BRINKLEY, Arkansas (Reuters) - A hunting lodge with antler chandeliers and stuffed ducks on the walls seems a strange place to celebrate the comeback of the ivory-billed woodpecker, ...
Narwhal's tusk is a giant sensor: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The narwhal's mysterious spiral tusk works as a giant sensor to help it test water qualities and to smooch other narwhals, a U.S. researcher said on Tuesday.
US launches cancer gene mapping project
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government researchers launched on Tuesday a pilot project to find all the little genetic changes that cause cancer and hope it can open a whole new world ...
Norwegians, Dutch mix sea and river to make power
LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands (Reuters) - "Water will be the coal of the future," French science-fiction writer Jules Verne predicted in 1874.
Bird activist sues residents of NY building
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An advocate for New York's famed red-tail hawks Pale Male and Lola, who live atop a posh Fifth Avenue building, is suing members of the building's co-op board ...
US scientist further questions Korean clone study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. stem cell expert who lent his name and credibility to South Korean cloning pioneers asked that his name be removed from their landmark scientific paper ...
Asteroid probe's return delayed by 3 years
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese space probe launched in an attempt to bring back the first ever rock samples from an asteroid will likely stay in space for three years longer than ...
Latin America turns to DNA tests to solve war crimes
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Boxes of bones from mass graves line the walls of an open-air laboratory, where remains from men, women and children killed during Guatemala's 36-year civil ...
Virgin Spaceport to Be Built in N.M. (AP)
AP - Virgin Galactic, the British company created by entrepreneur Richard Branson to send tourists into space, and New Mexico announced an agreement Tuesday for the state to build a ...
'Elvis' woodpecker draws searchers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It has starred in a video, been widely recorded and graced the cover of a prestigious magazine.
Shipbreaking may have killed thousands: Greenpeace
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Environmental group Greenpeace said on Monday thousands of workers involved in the shipbreaking industry are likely to have died over the past two decades due ...
S.Korea stem cell pioneer back in lab, inquiry due
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's pioneering stem cell scientist, embroiled in a scandal over ethical lapses, returned to his laboratory on Monday after the university where he works ...
Great Lakes cleanup may hit $20 bln: US task force
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The cost of a Great Lakes cleanup plan unveiled on Monday by a White House-backed group could reach $20 billion, a price that Washington has already said the U.S. ...
Mass stranding of whales, dolphins on Cape Cod investigated
BOSTON (Reuters) - Animal protection workers were investigating on Monday the mass stranding and death of 24 pilot whales and 15 dolphins during a winter storm on Cape Cod in ...
Study pinpoints species facing extinction threat
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Mexico's volcano rabbit and monkey-faced bats in Fiji are among hundreds of species facing imminent extinction but protecting the remaining scraps of their ...
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