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Nobel Prize winner Roger Tsien dies; helped track cells

AP Science News - Fetched: August 31st, 2016, 8:00pm UTC

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Roger Tsien, a University of California, San Diego professor who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for helping develop fluorescent markers that could tag cancer cells or track the advance of Alzheimeramp;apos;s disease in the brain, has died. He was 64....

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At Lake Tahoe, Obama links conservation to climate change

AP Science News - Fetched: August 31st, 2016, 8:00pm UTC

STATELINE, Nev. (AP) -- Standing beneath the forest-green peaks of the Sierra Nevada, President Barack Obama drew a connection Wednesday between conservation efforts and stopping global warming, describing the two environmental challenges as inseparably linked....

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APNewsBreak: US set to destroy big chemical weapon stockpile

AP Science News - Fetched: August 31st, 2016, 6:00pm UTC

DENVER (AP) -- The U.S. Army plans to start operating a $4.5 billion plant next week that will destroy the nationamp;apos;s largest remaining stockpile of mustard agent, complying with an international treaty that bans chemical weapons, officials said Wednesday....

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Lake Tahoe: The scoop on popular getaway at center of summit

AP Science News - Fetched: August 31st, 2016, 4:00pm UTC

STATELINE, Nev. (AP) -- President Barack Obama plans to speak Wednesday at an annual summit dedicated to Lake Tahoe, the popular getaway Mark Twain called the worldamp;apos;s amp;quot;fairest pictureamp;quot; and renowned naturalist John Muir tried to designate a national park....

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Study: Ohio's abortion pill law led to worse health outcomes

AP Science News - Fetched: August 31st, 2016, 2:00pm UTC

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohioamp;apos;s restrictions on the so-called abortion pill led to a higher rate of side effects, more doctor visits and additional medical treatment for patients, according to a new study....

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Rare whale's recovery hurt by entanglements, scientists say

AP Science News - Fetched: August 31st, 2016, 2:00pm UTC

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Scientists say the ability of an endangered whale species to recover is jeopardized by increasing rates of entanglement in fishing gear and a resultant drop in birth rates....

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Africa's elephants rapidly declining as poaching thrives

AP Science News - Fetched: August 31st, 2016, 12:00pm UTC

HONOLULU (AP) -- The number of savanna elephants in Africa is rapidly declining and the animals are in danger of being wiped out as international and domestic ivory trades drive poaching across the continent, according to a study released Wednesday....

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Stem-cell doctor did surgeries with 'inadequate' proof

AP Science News - Fetched: August 31st, 2016, 12:00pm UTC

LONDON (AP) -- An independent commission investigating Italian stem cell scientist Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, whose work was once considered revolutionary, says there were numerous problems in how he treated patients and that the scientific basis for his work was amp;quot;inadequate.amp;quot;...

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