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Covers:  robotics, science, environment, astronomy, deep ocean, disasters, tornadoes, risk, meteorlogy, hurricanes, animal cognition, climate change, human spaceflight
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Associated Press science writer Seth Borenstein, covering climate change; email: sborenstein@ap.org Bluesky: Borenbears; Teach @ NYU/DC @NewsMediaGuild
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94 in Alaska? Weather extremes tied to jet stream

94 in Alaska? Weather extremes tied to jet stream

Associated Press — WASHINGTON (AP) - Lately, the jet stream isn't playing by the rules. Scientists say that big river of air high above Earth that dictates much of the weather for the Northern Hemisphere has been unusually erratic the past few years. They blame it for everything from snowstorms in May to the path of Superstorm Sandy. And last week, it was responsible for downpours that led to historic floods in Alberta, Canada, as well as record-breaking heat in parts of Alaska, experts say. The town of McGrath, Alaska, hit 94. Just a few weeks earlier, the same spot was 15 degrees.
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What holds energy tech back? The infernal battery

What holds energy tech back? The infernal battery

Associated Press — WASHINGTON (AP) - As 21st century technology strains to become ever faster, cleaner and cheaper, an invention from more than 200 years ago keeps holding it back. It's why electric cars aren't clogging the roads and why Boeing's new ultra-efficient 787 Dreamliners aren't flying high. And chances are you have this little invention next to you right now and probably have cursed it recently: the infernal battery. Boeing is the first company to make extensive use in an airliner of technology's most advanced battery - lithium ion. But a Jan.
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Climate contradiction: Less snow, more blizzards

Climate contradiction: Less snow, more blizzards

USA Today — Cars are buried by snow near Hamden, Conn., on Sunday, in the aftermath of the winter storm that buried New England. (Photo: Craig Ruttle AP) Story Highlights A warmer atmosphere can hold, and dump, more moisture, snow experts say The USA has been walloped by twice as many of the most extreme snowstorms in the past 50 years than in the previous 60 years Spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has shrunk on average by 1 million square miles in the last 45 years WASHINGTON (AP) - With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some scientists have pointed to global warming as the culprit.
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Experts: Global warming means more Antarctic ice

Experts: Global warming means more Antarctic ice

Associated Press — WASHINGTON (AP) - The ice goes on seemingly forever in a white pancake-flat landscape, stretching farther than ever before. And yet in this confounding region of the world, that spreading ice may be a cockeyed signal of man-made climate change, scientists say. This is Antarctica, the polar opposite of the Arctic. While the North Pole has been losing sea ice over the years, the water nearest the South Pole has been gaining it. Antarctic sea ice hit a record 7.51 million square miles in September. That happened just days after reports of the biggest loss of Arctic sea ice on record.
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Predicting presidents, storms and life by computer

Predicting presidents, storms and life by computer

Associated Press — WASHINGTON (AP) - Forget political pundits, gut instincts, and psychics. The mightier-than-ever silicon chip seems to reveal the future. In just two weeks this fall, computer models displayed an impressive prediction prowess. It started when the first computer model alerted meteorologists to the pre-Halloween disaster headed for the Northeast from a bunch of clouds in the Caribbean. Nearly a week later, that weather system became Hurricane Sandy and grew into a superstorm after taking a once-in-a-century sharp turn into New Jersey. Then, statistician and blogger Nate Silver correctly forecast on his beat-up laptop how all 50 states would vote for president.
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Electoral College math: Not all votes are equal

Electoral College math: Not all votes are equal

Yahoo! News — WASHINGTON (AP) - When it comes to electing the president, not all votes are created equal. And chances are yours will count less than those of a select few. For example, the vote of Dave Smith in Sheridan, Wyo., counts almost 3 1/2 times as much mathematically as those of his wife's aunts in northeastern Ohio. Why? Electoral College math. A statistical analysis of the state-by-state voting-eligible population by The Associated Press shows that Wyoming has 139,000 eligible voters - those 18 and over, U.S. citizens and non-felons - for every presidential elector chosen in the state.
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A Never-ending Story

A Never-ending Story

Orlando Sentinel — Retired From Nasa, A Space Knight Named Musgrave Now Carries Out His Quests From 10 Acres In Kissimmee. KISSIMMEE - On one side of the second-story room three computers are crowded on a table. Their files are crammed with an encyclopedia dictionary that traces the origins of words, and dense research results. It is where the scientist works. Across the 8-foot-wide room, which rises out of the house like a bell tower, are bay windows that open out to a 10-acre ''jungle.'' It is where the poet dreams. Wedged in between is a red-and-white futon. This is where Story Musgrave sits.
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The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Drivers contracted by Halliburton firm question Iraq hauls

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Drivers contracted by Halliburton firm question Iraq hauls

seattletimes.com — Drivers contracted by Halliburton firm question Iraq hauls By Seth Borenstein Knight Ridder Newspapers / KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS Flatbed trucks driven by U.S.-hired contractors make their way through Iraq carrying no cargo as a helicopter hovers overhead as seen in this photograph. WASHINGTON - Empty flatbed trucks crisscrossed Iraq more than 100 times as their drivers and the soldiers who guarded them dodged bullets, bricks and homemade bombs. Twelve current and former truckers who regularly made the 300-mile resupply run from Camp Cedar in southern Iraq to Camp Anaconda near Baghdad told Knight Ridder they risked their lives driving empty trucks while their employer, a subsidiary of Halliburton, billed the government for hauling what they derisively called "sailboat fuel."
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The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Drivers contracted by Halliburton firm question Iraq hauls

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Drivers contracted by Halliburton firm question Iraq hauls

seattletimes.com — Drivers contracted by Halliburton firm question Iraq hauls By Seth Borenstein Knight Ridder Newspapers / KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS Flatbed trucks driven by U.S.-hired contractors make their way through Iraq carrying no cargo as a helicopter hovers overhead as seen in this photograph. WASHINGTON - Empty flatbed trucks crisscrossed Iraq more than 100 times as their drivers and the soldiers who guarded them dodged bullets, bricks and homemade bombs. Twelve current and former truckers who regularly made the 300-mile resupply run from Camp Cedar in southern Iraq to Camp Anaconda near Baghdad told Knight Ridder they risked their lives driving empty trucks while their employer, a subsidiary of Halliburton, billed the government for hauling what they derisively called "sailboat fuel."
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Doting On Columbia

Doting On Columbia

Orlando Sentinel — They Dont Get The Cheers At Liftoff. They Get The Headaches Beforehand. Because Whether Columbia Has A Successful Flight Depends On This Crew. From miles away, a space shuttle looks gleaming white on the launch pad. But up close, in the hangar where she spends most of her life, the space shuttle Columbia shows her true colors: Moldy green. Burnt brown. Grungy gray. Sooty black. In this Kennedy Space Center hangar, Columbias guts are spread out. Her engines are detached and in another shop. She has a gaping hole in her nose because her front maneuvering jets are sitting on the floor.
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Need To Blow Off Frustration? Swing A 6,000-pound Ball

Need To Blow Off Frustration? Swing A 6,000-pound Ball

South Florida Sun Sentinel — Six thousand pounds of destruction is at your fingertips. Haul on the yellow lever: The cast-iron wrecking ball rises above the old Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel office, swaying on its cable. Step off the brake pedal, and gravity takes over. The ball drops 15 feet onto the ceiling of the old building`s second floor. Dust and chips fly and the ground quivers. A gravel-filled truck running over a bump in the road would do as much. Try again. This time the ceiling shudders and cracks, but it does not fall. One more time, with gusto.
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How Do You Pump An Alligator's Stomach? Insert Hose, Use Caution

How Do You Pump An Alligator's Stomach? Insert Hose, Use Caution

Orlando Sentinel — Scientists Are Studying The Reptiles' Diet, Because Gators Are Vital To The Everglades. LAKE OKEECHOBEE - Brady Barr hung halfway over the edge of the airboat, grabbed an alligator and wrestled it in. The 5-foot-long gator swung its tail wildly as Barr fell on its back. But he clutched the gator's neck and finally wrapped a rubber band around its snout. Later he'll pump the reptile's stomach. ''He was just wild,'' Barr said, after he shoved the gator into a portable dog kennel. ''They'll swing sometimes and spin.'' Barr, a University of Miami graduate biology student, is researching what alligators eat.
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Hot Lunch I-95 Crews Foil Cooking Problems With Asphalt Fare.

Hot Lunch I-95 Crews Foil Cooking Problems With Asphalt Fare.

South Florida Sun Sentinel — Interstate 95 is really cooking now. It`s cooking six corn dogs, two pork chops and a sausage. Pavers Reggie Akins and Roger McCallister on Tuesday wrapped the meat they brought for lunch in aluminum foil and buried the packets in an 18-inch pile of hot asphalt on I-95. An hour later, they attacked the pile with a shovel and unearthed a steamy and juicy lunch. Welcome to I-95`s asphalt kitchen, where pavers routinely cook their lunches with 300-degree asphalt. It`s literally one for the road. ``It really cooks as well as a microwave,`` Senior Roadway Inspector Bill McCord said on Tuesday.
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Scientists look at climate change, the superstorm

Scientists look at climate change, the superstorm

Associated Press — WASHINGTON (AP) - Climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer stood along the Hudson River and watched his research come to life as Hurricane Sandy blew through New York. Just eight months earlier, the Princeton University professor reported that what used to be once-in-a-century devastating floods in New York City would soon happen every three to 20 years. He blamed global warming for pushing up sea levels and changing hurricane patterns. New York "is now highly vulnerable to extreme hurricane-surge flooding," he wrote. For more than a dozen years, Oppenheimer and other climate scientists have been warning about the risk for big storms and serious flooding in New York.
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'Drill Baby, Drill' May Not Help Your Wallet

'Drill Baby, Drill' May Not Help Your Wallet

Huffington Post — WASHINGTON - It's the political cure-all for high gas prices: Drill here, drill now. But more U.S. drilling has not changed how deeply the gas pump drills into your wallet, math and history show. A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic oil production by The Associated Press shows no statistical correlation between how much oil comes out of U.S. wells and the price at the pump. If more domestic oil drilling worked as politicians say, you'd now be paying about $2 a gallon for gasoline. Instead, you're paying the highest prices ever for March.
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Forecasters warn East Coast about `Frankenstorm'

Forecasters warn East Coast about `Frankenstorm'

Huffington Post — WASHINGTON - All the spare parts appear to be coming together to create what forecasters are calling "Frankenstorm," a monster combination of high wind, heavy rain, extreme tides and maybe snow that could cause havoc along the East Coast just before Halloween next week. Hurricane Sandy, having blown through Haiti and Cuba on Thursday, continues to barrel north. A wintry storm is chugging across from the West. And frigid air is streaming south from Canada. And if they meet Tuesday morning around New York or New Jersey, as forecasters predict, they could create a big wet mess that settles over the nation's most heavily populated corridor and reaches as far inland as Ohio.
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Space shuttle's legacy: Soaring in orbit and costs

Space shuttle's legacy: Soaring in orbit and costs

Los Angeles Daily News — By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press Posted: 06/30/2011 02:54:44 PM PDT Updated: 06/30/2011 06:24:59 PM PDT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The space shuttle was sold to America as cheap, safe and reliable. It was none of those. It cost $196 billion over 40 years, ended the lives of 14 astronauts and managed to make less than half the flights promised. Yet despite all that, there were some big achievements that weren't promised: major scientific advances, stunning photos of the cosmos, a high-flying vehicle of diplomacy that helped bring Cold War enemies closer, and something to brag about. Former President George H.W.
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Statisticians reject global cooling

Statisticians reject global cooling

MSNBC — An analysis of global temperatures by independent statisticians shows the Earth is still warming and not cooling as some global warming skeptics are claiming. The analysis was conducted at the request of The Associated Press to investigate the legitimacy of talk of a cooling trend that has been spreading on the Internet, fueled by some news reports, a new book and temperatures that have been cooler in a few recent years. In short, it is not true, according to the statisticians who contributed to the AP analysis. The statisticians, reviewing two sets of temperature data, found no trend of falling temperatures over time.
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A reality show with depth: Live ocean exploration

A reality show with depth: Live ocean exploration

Associated Press — WASHINGTON (AP) - Vicious fights! Stunning beauties! Surprises around every corner! Yes, it's reality TV but with a lot more depth - as much as 10,000 feet. It's live coverage of deep-sea exploration off Nantucket and tens of thousands of people are tuning in. They're watching an eel suddenly attack a squid, oohing-and-aahing over hot pink starfish and listening as excited researchers discover a canyon so downright alien that sea life lives on methane escaping from the sea floor instead of sunlight. They're watching science as it happens, however weird and wild.
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