ARTICLES BY SETH BORENSTEIN/AP SCIENCE WRITER
Rocket whodunit
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EPA plans pesticide restrictions to help bees
WASHINGTON - If honeybees are busy pollinating large, blooming croplands, farmers wanting to spray toxic pesticides will soon have to buzz off, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing.
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Computer program bests humans at 'Space Invaders'
WASHINGTON - Computers already have bested human champions in "Jeopardy!" and chess, but artificial intelligence now has gone to master an entirely new level: "Space Invaders."
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Study: As world warms, U.S. gets more lightning
WASHINGTON - Lightning strikes in the United States will likely increase by nearly 50 percent by the end of the century as the world gets warmer and wetter, a new study says.
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An odd bird
WASHINGTON - Nearly 50 years ago, scientists found bones of two large, powerful dinosaur arms in Mongolia and figured they had discovered a fearsome critter with killer claws.
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Studies fault warming in much of 2013's extreme weather
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Less shake from artificial quakes, federal study finds
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Study blames humans for most - not all -melting glaciers
WASHINGTON - More than two-thirds of the recent rapid melting of the world's glaciers can be blamed on humans, a new study finds.
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Leaving a hoofprint
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Extinction, but maybe on the comeback?
WASHINGTON - It was the moment that humanity learned we had the awesome power to erase an entire species off the face of the Earth in the scientific equivalent of a blink of an eye: The passenger pigeon went from billions of birds to extinct before our very eyes.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Still a problem
WASHINGTON - The key last-ditch safety device that failed to prevent the 2010 BP oil spill remains a potentially catastrophic problem today for some offshore drilling, according to a federal safety board investigation.
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What's in a name?
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Underwater vanishing act
WASHINGTON - Species of plants and animals are becoming extinct at least 1,000 times faster than they did before humans arrived on the scene, and the world is on the brink of a sixth great extinction, a new study says.
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Report details effects of warming
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