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Fri, 24 May 2013 19:51:27 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_OKLAHOMA_TORNADO_HOT_SPOT?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By SETH BORENSTEIN 2013-05-24T19:51:27Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_COCKROACH_WARS?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT NEW YORK (AP) -- For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong.... Thu, 23 May 2013 18:06:16 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_COCKROACH_WARS?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By MALCOLM RITTER 2013-05-23T18:06:16Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ROCKET_LAUNCH?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A new military communications satellite has been launched into space.... Sat, 25 May 2013 00:41:00 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ROCKET_LAUNCH?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By The Associated Press 2013-05-25T00:41:00Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_CAPTURING_ASTEROID?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore.... Thu, 23 May 2013 21:38:36 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_CAPTURING_ASTEROID?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By ALICIA CHANG 2013-05-23T21:38:36Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_HURRICANE_FORECAST?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) -- Get ready for another busy hurricane season, maybe an unusually wild one, federal forecasters say.... Thu, 23 May 2013 21:36:54 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_HURRICANE_FORECAST?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By SETH BORENSTEIN 2013-05-23T21:36:54Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_HURRICANE_FORECAST_NAMES?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Weather forecasters are predicting another busy Atlantic hurricane season. The storms will get their names from an alphabetical list of 21 names:... Thu, 23 May 2013 20:33:59 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_HURRICANE_FORECAST_NAMES?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By The Associated Press 2013-05-23T20:33:59Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DISAPPEARING_FROGS?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs and other amphibians are disappearing around the United States, and the news is not good.... Thu, 23 May 2013 19:44:41 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DISAPPEARING_FROGS?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By JEFF BARNARD 2013-05-23T19:44:41Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOOGLE_GALAPAGOS_STREET_VIEW?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world's largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.... Thu, 23 May 2013 17:23:31 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOOGLE_GALAPAGOS_STREET_VIEW?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By JASON DEAREN 2013-05-23T17:23:31Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SOLAR_PLANE?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT DALLAS (AP) -- A solar-powered plane has landed in Texas, completing the second leg of a trip across the United States.... Thu, 23 May 2013 11:35:42 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SOLAR_PLANE?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT 2013-05-23T11:35:42Z http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MED_BABYS_LAB_GROWN_AIRWAY?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day.... Wed, 22 May 2013 22:08:35 GMT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MED_BABYS_LAB_GROWN_AIRWAY?SITE=UTOGD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT By MARILYNN MARCHIONE 2013-05-22T22:08:35Z