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Jun 4, 2012

Researcher studies genetics of toxic fungus.

Jun 4, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA has received a gift from an unexpected source — the nation's satellite spy agency.

Jun 4, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) — The prototype space shuttle that arrived in New York City by air earlier this spring is on the move again, this time by sea.

Jun 3, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's a spectacle that won't repeat for another century — the sight of Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun.

Jun 3, 2012

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — From the air, the smoke from a massive wildfire stretches as far as the eye can see, spreading across the rugged country in southwestern New Mexico where the nation's wilderness movement was born nearly a century ago.

Jun 2, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Years of ferocious storms have threatened to gnaw away the western tip of a popular beachfront park two hours drive north of Los Angeles. Instead of building a 500-foot-long wooden defense next to the pier to tame the tide, the latest thinking is to flee.

Jun 2, 2012

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma and Texas have argued for years about which has the best college football team, whose oil fields produce better crude, even where the state border should run. But in a hot, sticky dispute that no one wants to win, Oklahoma just reclaimed its crown.

Jun 1, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Yes, it's true. You can damage your eyes by staring at the sun. People need to remember that as they turn to the skies to watch the silhouette of Venus march across the face of the sun on Tuesday from the Western Hemisphere (Wednesday from the Eastern Hemisphere). Known as a transit of Venus, this won't happen again until 2117.

Jun 1, 2012

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — Additional testing has confirmed beach rocks that spontaneously combusted in a Southern California woman's pocket contained elevated levels of phosphorus, an official said Friday.

Jun 1, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's a spectacle that won't repeat for another century — the sight of Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun.

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