1. Global Warming Claims Tropical Island
(For the first time in recorded history, an inhabited island has disappeared beneath rising seas. )
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2. We're Not From The Milky Way
(Imagine the shock of growing up in a loving family with people you call "Mum" and "Dad" and then, suddenly, learning that you are actually adopted!)
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3. Chimpanzees Hunt Using Spears
(Chimpanzees in Senegal have been observed making and using wooden spears to hunt other primates, according to a study in the journal Current Biology.)
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4. Ancient Shark Found Off Japanese Coast
(A species of shark rarely seen alive because its natural habitat is 600 meters (2,000 ft) or more under the sea was captured on film by staff at a Japanese marine park this week. )
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5. Weird New Creatures Found in Antarctica
(Several strange creatures including a psychedelic octopus have been found in frigid waters off Antarctica in one of the world’s most pristine marine environments. )
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6. Nearly 2,000 Camels Die In Saudi
(Nearly 2,000 camels have died in Saudi Arabia from a mystery illness that first appeared two weeks ago, the government said on Saturday, adding that poisoning was a more likely cause than infectious disease.)
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7. New Species Of Lizard Found In Borneo
(Chris Austin, assistant curator of herpetology at LSU's Museum of Natural Science, or LSUMNS, and adjunct professor in biological sciences, recently discovered a new species of lizard while conducting field research in Borneo.)
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8. New Way To Form Black Hole Uncovered
(Nature has again thrown astronomers for a loop. Just when they thought they understood how gamma-ray bursts formed, they have uncovered what appears to be evidence for a new kind of cosmic explosion. These seem to arise when a newly born black hole swallows most of the matter from its doomed parent star.)
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9. 'Immortal' Jellyfish Swarming Across The World
(The Turritopsis Nutricula is able to revert back to a juvenile form once it mates after becoming sexually mature. )
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10. No Big Bang? A Viable Alternative Proposed
( A new cosmological model demonstrates the universe can endlessly expand and contract, providing a rival to Big Bang theories and solving a thorny modern physics problem, according to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill physicists.)
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1. U.S. House Shifts $16 Bln Toward Renewable Energy
(The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday passed a Democratic rewrite of U.S. energy policy that strips $16 billion in tax incentives away from Big Oil and puts it toward renewable energy sources like wind and solar power. )
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Category: Technology

2. Scientists Find Endangered Monkey in Vietnam
(Scientists have found the world's largest-known population of an endangered monkey species in central Vietnam, increasing its chances of survival, conservationists said on Tuesday.)
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Category: Nature

3. Experimental Jet Tested At 10 Times Speed of Sound
(An experimental jet engine has been successfully tested at speeds of up to 11,000 km (6,835 miles) per hour, or 10 times the speed of sound, during trials in Australia's outback, defense scientists said on Friday.)
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Category: Miscellaneous

4. Cold Water Swimming
(Cold Water Swimming Informal Record )
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5. Space Shuttle Due To Return As NASA Watches Weather
(Weather forecasts were not encouraging, but space shuttle Atlantis was scheduled to return to Earth on Thursday in an afternoon landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. )
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Category: Space

6. NASA to Launch Mars Probe in Search for Clues of Life
(A NASA probe that will analyze Mars for water and other chemicals needed for life is on track for launch aboard an unmanned Delta rocket on Saturday, NASA officials said on Thursday.)
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Category: Space

7. Flash Flood Kills More In Storm-Hit Pakistan
(A flash flood swept through six villages in Pakistan's storm-hit Baluchistan province killing 30 people and forcing more than 10,000 from their homes as a huge effort to help up to 1.5 million people geared up.)
Rating: 3.37
Category: Nature

8. New Drug Combo Helps HIV Patients With Few Options
(A combination of two experimental AIDS drugs can help control the deadly virus in people who are infected with highly resistant forms, an international team of researchers reported on Thursday.)
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Category: Medicine

9. Millions Vote For New Seven Wonders of the World
(From India's Taj Mahal to Mexico's Mayan ruins, suggestions for seven new Wonders of the World have flooded in from more than 60 million people in one of the biggest global polls ever conducted.)
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Category: Humanity

10. Multiyear Arctic Ice Is Effectively Gone
(The multiyear ice covering the Arctic Ocean has effectively vanished, a startling development that will make it easier to open up polar shipping routes, an Arctic expert said on Thursday. )
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Category: Nature