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New map pinpoints Lyme disease risk areas
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease....
Unlike Patriots, NFL slow to embrace 'Moneyball'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's advice that sounds like heresy on the gridiron: Go for it on fourth down. Try more onside kicks. Running backs don't matter much....
NASA says Russian space woes no worry
WASHINGTON (AP) -- NASA says it still has confidence in the quality of Russia's manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space program....
Sandia Labs engineers create 'self-guided' bullet
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Figuring out how to pack a processor and other electronics into a machine gun bullet has been a challenge for engineers at Sandia National Laboratories, so weapons experts say the miniature guidance system the lab has developed is a breakthrough....
EU probes new Google privacy policy
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union's data protection authorities have asked Google to delay the rollout of its new privacy policy until they have verified that it doesn't break the bloc's data protection laws....
Where's the snow? Not in Lower 48, but elsewhere
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Snow has been missing in action for much of the U.S. the last couple months. But it's not just snow. It's practically the season that's gone AWOL....
Scientists puzzled by region outside solar system
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A glimpse beyond our solar system reveals the neighborhood just outside the sun's influence is different and stranger than expected, scientists reported Tuesday....
Board rejects mercy for condemned Ohio arsonist
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A death row inmate's theory that a mysterious "man in red" could have started the arson fire that killed his 3-year-old son is "an extraordinary stretch of the imagination," the state parole board ruled Wednesday in unanimously rejecting his plea for mercy....
Experts say Gingrich moon base dreams not lunacy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich wants to create a lunar colony that he says could become a U.S. state. There's his grand research plan to figure out what makes the human brain tick. And he's warned about electromagnetic pulse attacks leaving America without electricity....
Russia blames radiation for space probe failure
MOSCOW (AP) -- The head of Russia's space agency said Tuesday that cosmic radiation was the most likely cause of the failure of a Mars moon probe that crashed to Earth this month, and suggested that a low-quality imported component may have been vulnerable to the radiation....