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Mexican experts excited to find ancient home ruins MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The ruins aren't particularly impressive, just some stone and clay footings for houses that probably supported walls of wood or clay wattle. And it's that very ordinariness that has experts excited.... Researchers probe 200-year-old shipwreck off RI WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) -- For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England's southern coast.... Life in Antarctic lake? It's everywhere else WASHINGTON (AP) -- If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.... La Nina going away, but too late for Texas drought WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal weather forecasters say the La Nina weather phenomenon that contributed to the southwestern U.S. drought is winding down.... Judge tosses case seeking rights for orcas SAN DIEGO (AP) -- An effort to free whales from SeaWorld by claiming they were enslaved made a splash in the news but flopped in court Wednesday.... In scientific coup, Russians reach Antarctic lake MOSCOW (AP) -- Opening a scientific frontier miles under the Antarctic ice, Russian experts drilled down and finally reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake, an achievement the mission chief likened to placing a man on the moon.... Unplanned 9/11 analysis links noise, whale stress BOSTON (AP) -- An ocean experiment that was accidentally conducted amid the shipping silence after Sept. 11 has shown the first link between underwater noise and stress in whales, researchers reported Wednesday.... Romanian accused of hacking NASA-JPL computers LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A federal grand jury has indicted a Romanian citizen on charges he hacked into 25 climate-research computers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.... New Obama plan to help math, science teacher prep WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for millions of dollars in new funding to improve math and science education, an effort he said would be crucial to the nation's long-term success.... Man who warned of Challenger disaster dies at 73 NEPHI, Utah (AP) -- Roger Boisjoly, a NASA contractor who repeatedly voiced concerns about the space shuttle Challenger before it exploded, has died. He was 73....

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