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Prague zookeepers use puppet to raise endangered magpie

PRAGUE (AP) -- Zookeepers in Prague have turned into puppeteers in an effort to save the critically endangered Javan green magpie.... from AP Top Science News at 9:13 p.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2vnMQWs via IFTTT

Trump administration defends Obama's Atlantic monument

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- The Trump administration on Tuesday defended an underwater monument off the coast of New England established by former President Barack Obama to protect marine life in the Atlantic Ocean and asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit from fishermen trying to eliminate it.... from AP Top Science News at 1:24 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2qFqeLG via IFTTT

Mighty Mississippi: Scientists use model in land loss fight

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Scientists working on new ways to battle the erosion that threatens Louisiana's coastline have a dramatic new tool: a massive replica of the lower Mississippi River.... from AP Top Science News at 1:10 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2vgmkye via IFTTT

Global warming is mixing up nature's dinner time, study says

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Global warming is screwing up nature's intricately timed dinner hour, often making hungry critters and those on the menu show up at much different times, a new study shows.... from AP Top Science News at 1:10 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2EQpSqD via IFTTT

Launch delay for NASA's newest planet-hunting spacecraft

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA's newest planet-hunting spacecraft will have to wait another couple of days before lifting off.... from AP Top Science News at 1:10 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2qpxZoM via IFTTT

Archaeologists find silver treasure on German Baltic island

BERLIN (AP) -- Hundreds of 1,000-year-old silver coins, rings, pearls and bracelets linked to the era of Danish King Harald Gormsson have been found on the eastern German island of Ruegen in the Baltic Sea.... from AP Top Science News at 1:10 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2HBq67W via IFTTT

GAO says EPA violated spending law on Pruitt's privacy booth

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An internal government watchdog says the Environmental Protection Agency violated federal spending laws when purchasing a $43,000 soundproof privacy booth for Administrator Scott Pruitt to make private phone calls in his office.... from AP Top Science News at 1:10 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2qFSXjA via IFTTT

Saving the bison: Polish bison off to help Spanish herd grow

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Seven young female bison from Poland are being shipped off to help boost a herd in Spain and expand the population of Europe's largest animal, which is on the endangered species list.... from AP Top Science News at 1:10 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2vjfatd via IFTTT

Hawaii board delays decision on location for giant telescope

HONOLULU (AP) -- A key decision on whether to place a $1.4 billion telescope in Hawaii to further astronomy research has been delayed, leaving open the possibility the project may be moved to Spain, a panel said Friday.... from AP Top Science News at 1:10 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2fDqxQP via IFTTT

Battle to save Africa's elephants is gaining some ground

MIKUMI NATIONAL PARK, Tanzania (AP) -- The elephant staggered and keeled over in the tall grass in southern Tanzania, where some of the world's worst poaching has happened.... from AP Top Science News at 1:10 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2EH4AM3 via IFTTT

$1 million federal grant will help study of transgender kids

The first large-scale, national study of transgender children, including some as young as 3, is poised to expand thanks to a five-year, $1 million grant awarded Thursday by the National Science Foundation to the professor leading the project.... from AP Top Science News at 1:10 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2v5GsDf via IFTTT

Radioactive sludge barrel ruptures at Idaho nuclear site

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A barrel containing radioactive sludge ruptured at an Idaho nuclear facility, federal officials said Thursday, resulting in no injuries and no risk to the public but possibly slowing progress in shipping waste out of the state.... from AP Top Science News at 1:10 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2qvbwGT via IFTTT

In opioid epidemic, some cities strain to afford OD antidote

BALTIMORE (AP) -- On a Baltimore street corner, public health workers hand out a life-saving overdose antidote to residents painfully familiar with the ravages of America's opioid epidemic. But the training wraps up quickly; all the naloxone inhalers are claimed within 20 minutes.... from AP Top Science News at 7:43 p.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2qqtGK3 via IFTTT

Study: Global warming is weakening key ocean circulation

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Global warming is likely slowing the main Atlantic Ocean circulation, which has plunged to its weakest level on record, according to a new study.... from AP Top Science News at 7:43 p.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2IOmleW via IFTTT

5 years on, marathon bomb survivors inspire medical advances

BOSTON (AP) -- In the five years since the Boston Marathon bombing, medical science has made promising advances in amputations and artificial limbs, in part because of lessons learned from the victims and research dollars made available as a result of the attack.... from AP Top Science News at 2:42 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2IHVilc via IFTTT

New way of defining Alzheimer's aims to find disease sooner

Government and other scientists are proposing a new way to define Alzheimer's disease - basing it on biological signs, such as brain changes, rather than memory loss and other symptoms of dementia that are used today.... from AP Top Science News at 2:42 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2qkKVfy via IFTTT

Fossil finger points to early humans entering Saudi Arabia

NEW YORK (AP) -- An ancient human finger bone found in Saudi Arabia provides a new clue about when and how our species migrated out of Africa.... from AP Top Science News at 2:42 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2HpWWIY via IFTTT

10 teams advance in international carbon dioxide competition

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- A $20 million international competition to make profitable products from a gas that otherwise would contribute to global warming has entered its final stretch.... from AP Top Science News at 2:42 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2IBXpHq via IFTTT

UN holds meeting on curbing greenhouse emissions from ships

LONDON (AP) -- The United Nations maritime agency is holding a weeklong meeting aimed at curbing emissions from ships.... from AP Top Science News at 2:42 a.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2qhlQTw via IFTTT

Workers' radiation exposure halts nuke plant demolition

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Seven decades after making key portions of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are being exposed to radiation as they tear down buildings that helped create the nation's nuclear arsenal.... from AP Top Science News at 2:06 p.m. EDT https://ift.tt/2uVr8Jd via IFTTT