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Spacewalkers began assembling the new robot on the first of five space walks planned for the shuttle Endeavour's current mission.

March 14, 2008
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The U.S. government is tightening the amount of ozone—a main ingredient of smog—allowed in the air, but not by as much as scientists recommended.

March 13, 2008
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The powerful repellant temporarily jams an insect's sense of smell so that people don't register as food, according to a new study.

March 13, 2008
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A drug-dispensing robot is filling many of the prescriptions at Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. Makers say the machine is more reliable than humans.

March 13, 2008
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Humans crossed the Bering land bridge 22,000 years ago but couldn't escape ice there for thousands of years, according to a combined genetic and archaeological analysis.

March 13, 2008

A study suggests 95 percent of Native Americans can trace some DNA back 20,000 years to just six women.

March 13, 2008
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A pair of meteorites discovered in Antarctica is baffling scientists, who are struggling to determine the the space rocks' origins.

March 12, 2008
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The northern lights—aurora borealis—delight sky watchers during the dark days and nights of fall, winter, and spring in the Arctic islands of Norway.

March 12, 2008
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The international Cassini spacecraft is plunging through the geyser plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus today to learn how they formed.

March 12, 2008
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A human-size boulder that crashed into southern Peru in September 2007 was one large fragment, challenging long-held views that meteors crumble into smaller pieces before hitting Earth, experts say.

March 11, 2008
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NASA's first nighttime launch since 2006 sent Endeavour on a 16-day space station mission. Astronauts will install a Canadian robot and a Japanese storage unit.

March 11, 2008

Rising seas, thawing Arctic ice, and more heat waves, rainstorms, and hurricanes will all affect U.S. travel by train, boat, and plane, a new report says.

March 11, 2008
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The seven tiny feathers could fill a key gap in the puzzle of how dinosaurs gave rise to flying birds, a new study says.

March 11, 2008
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With NASA's first nighttime shuttle launch since 2006, Endeavour begins its mission to assemble a Canadian robot and install a Japanese-built "float-in" closet at the International Space Station.

March 11, 2008
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See the evidence for a new theory of tiny humans—and the stunning South Pacific setting where it was found.

March 10, 2008

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