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Fossil finds hint at when apes and monkeys went separate ways
Scientists have added two species of ape and monkey to the evolutionary tree, filling in a 10-million-year gap in the fossil record from a period when apes and Old World monkeys diverged. Fossil specimens of jaws and teeth, collected by Ohio...
Tags: Research, Ohio University, Fossils
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Fewer Facebook users take a liking to its new Home software
SAN FRANCISCO — It may be too soon to call Facebook Home a flop. But it's clearly not the breakout hit that some expected. One month after its splashy debut, fewer and fewer people are downloading Facebook's new mobile software. It took weeks...
Tags: Larry Page, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Media, Computer Hardware
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Letters: A lot of errors going around
Obviously the owners of the Angels and Dodgers have never heard of team chemistry. Arte Moreno and the Guggenheim Guy thought they could build better teams just by adding more expensive elements. Here's a lesson from Chemistry 101: You won't improve...
Tags: Baseball, Major League Baseball, Texas Rangers, Chemistry, Torii Hunter
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Fiat weighs shifting its HQ to the U.S.
Fiat, the century-old Italian automaker, appears poised to move its headquarters to the U.S. after its planned merger with Chrysler Group. The move would be unprecedented in the automotive industry, experts said, because of Fiat's deep roots. "To...
Tags: Italy, Companies and Corporations, Sergio Marchionne, Kelley Blue Book LLC, Chrysler Group LLC
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Smokeless tobacco use among U.S. kids and teens has leveled off
After years of decline, the rate of smokeless tobacco use among young people has leveled off, new research shows. In 2011, 5.2% of middle school and high school students in the U.S. reported using snuff, chewing tobacco or dipping tobacco at least...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Tobacco Products
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GPS system can accurately predict post-quake tsunami, study finds
When the magnitude 9 earthquake struck Japan more than two years ago, there were 1,200 global positioning system stations recording ocean floor movement in real time. None was linked to that nation’s tsunami warning system, which underestimated...
Tags: Japan, Oceans, Indonesia, Research, Bodies of Water
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Scientists create human embryos to make stem cells
For the first time, scientists have created human embryos that are genetic copies of living people and used them to make stem cells — a feat that paves the way for treating a range of diseases with personalized body tissues but also ignites fears of...
Tags: Human Interest, Health and Safety at School, Stanford University, Chemical Industry, George W. Bush
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Wind blasts on Neptune, Uranus may shed light on exoplanet weather
Inscrutable ice giants Neptune and Uranus have only a thin rind of windy weather over their fluid contents, a team of planetary scientists say. The research published in the journal Nature relies on decades-old data from the Voyager 2 spacecraft -- and...
Tags: University of Arizona, University of Oxford, NASA Voyager Program, NASA, Science
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Pollutant's cooling effect on climate may be overstated, study shows
Don’t count on sulfur dioxide to bridle climate change. The ability of that pollutant to reflect the sun is not quite what it was assumed to be, according to new research. Sulfur dioxide -- a common pollutant from burning fossil fuels, contributes...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Air Pollution, Environmental Issues
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Billboard companies playing big role in L.A. city election
Advertising company Lamar sued the city of Los Angeles two months ago, demanding the right to install new digital billboards in such neighborhoods as Sherman Oaks, Silver Lake, Glassell Park and the Fairfax district. Lamar's involvement in city politics...
Tags: Politics, Clear Channel Communications Inc., Safety of Citizens, Government, Wendy Greuel
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A Sony entertainment spinoff would provide opening for CBS
New York hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb wants Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp. to spin off its Culver City entertainment business. CBS Corp. might like that, too. Loeb, whose Third Point funds own more than $1 billion in Sony stock, sent a letter...
Tags: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Television Industry, Entertainment, Sony Corp., Sumner Redstone
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Ewwww -- poop in pools more common than you may think, CDC warns
Attention swimmers: More than half of the public pools tested in a new study contained bacterial evidence that someone may have pooped in the pool. Investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worked with state and local public...
Tags: E. coli Infection, Diarrhea, Calicivirus, Swimming, Disease Prevention
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