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Cockroaches quickly lose sweet tooth to survive
8 hours 13 mins ago
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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Pandora posts in-line 1Q loss, upbeat sales
4 hours 35 mins ago
Internet radio company Pandora Media Inc. reported higher-than-expected revenue in the latest quarter, with losses in line with analysts' forecasts, as the number of subscribers who pay for ad-free listening more than doubled to exceed 2.5 million.
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NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission
4 hours 40 mins ago
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
4 hours 42 mins ago
Get ready for another busy hurricane season, maybe an unusually wild one, federal forecasters say.
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Prosecutor: IPad theft defendants ambushed victim
5 hours 11 mins ago
Two men accused of killing a high school freshman who refused to let go of his iPad were like wild animals ambushing a weak victim, a prosecutor said Thursday.
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2013 hurricane names: From Andrea to Wendy
5 hours 45 mins ago
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
6 hours 34 mins ago
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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Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View
8 hours 55 mins ago
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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Strange
Surgeons remove tiger's basketball-sized hairball
It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself.
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World
ECB's Draghi: 'Imperative' to set up new bank body
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said it was "imperative" that Europe's leaders create a new agency with powers to restructure busted banks in order to help the region leave its economic ...
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Politics
NY senator: Assaults let military culture continue
Charges that an Army sergeant secretly photographed and videotaped women at West Point are part of a military-wide pattern of sexual misconduct, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said Thursday.
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