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• Navy Plans to Deploy Laser Weapon in the Persian Gulf
  The U.S. Navy is planning to deploy a $40 million experimental laser weapon to the Persian Gulf, where it could be used to stop small Iranian boats from attacking U.S. warships and for other military purposes.
• NASA Chief: No Manned Missions to the Moon ‘in My Lifetime’
  The United States will not be sending a human to the moon anytime soon because we can only do so many things, NASA chief Charlie Bolden said.
• Digital Subscriptions Boost Newspaper Circulation Revenue 5%
  Digital subscriptions to daily newspapers increased circulation revenue in 2012 for the first time in a decade, according to a report released on Monday by the Newspaper Association of America.
• Broadcasters Worry about 'Zero TV' Homes
  Some people have had it with TV. They've had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don't like timing their lives around network show schedules. They're tired of $100-plus monthly bills.A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service,...
• Nelson: NASA Planning to Lasso Asteroid, Park it Near Moon
  
• Facebook Introduces Smartphone Software to Boost Ad Revenue
  Facebook Inc. unveiled smartphone software that puts social-networking features front and center on a handset, stepping up efforts to boost sales of advertising on small screens. The new software, which the company calls Home, makes it easier to access Facebook features --...
• Facebook Moves to Home Screens of Android Phones
  
• Scientists Find Possible Hint of Dark Matter
  It is one of the cosmos' most mysterious unsolved cases: dark matter. It is supposedly what holds the universe together.
• Analyst: 60-inch Apple ITV to Launch This Year
  It's no secret that Apple wants to get into the living room by making its own TV set, and there have been plenty of rumors and reports about how and when it's going to happen.Now, an analyst says he's learned that the set will go on sale late this year, for $1,500 to...
• Houston Gets IPhone App with Up-to-date Smog Data
  Houston residents now can have in their pocket the answer to whether ozone levels in the city are too high for their asthmatic child to play soccer.A new app available for iPhones and Android smartphones collects data from 74 air and wind monitors throughout the Houston...
• Youth Flock to Mobile Messaging Apps, May be Threat to Facebook
  Create personal profiles. Build networks of friends. Share photos, videos and music. That might sound precisely like Facebook, but hundreds of millions of tech-savvy young people have instead turned to a wave of smartphone-based messaging apps that are now sweeping across...
• Amazon Purchase of Goodreads Book-Review Site Irks Authors Group
  Amazon.com Inc. is gaining too much control in the publishing industry with its purchase of Goodreads Inc., a social network for readers and a competitor in online book reviews, an authors group says.Goodreads, which allows users to add titles to virtual bookshelves and...
• Economist Admits 'Mismatch' Between Greenhouse Gases and 'Not-Rising Temperatures'
  The Economist has been fairly consistent in its stand that carbon dioxide emissions from man-made sources are the chief cause of global warming. But in an editorial this week, it sounds less certain.
• Seal Pup Learns to Swim Again after Amputation
  The harbor seal pup lay battered on a Massachusetts beach, the victim of a brutal attack by an older seal that left deep wounds all over her body and sapped so much of her strength that she couldn't even flee when rescuers found her.
• Astronauts Reach Space Station in Just Six Hours
  A trip to the International Space Station is now faster than a flight from London to New York, two Russian cosmonauts and one American have proved.
• Mysterious African ‘Fairy Circles’ Made by Hungry Termites
  Mysterious bare spots dubbed fairy circles that have been long observed in the African grasslands are caused by termites, a scientist suggests.The Psammotermes allocerus termite that lives in the sandy soil beneath the circles kill the grass by chewing its roots,...
• Baby Gorilla Thrives With Human Surrogates in Ohio
  A baby gorilla being raised temporarily by human surrogate parents is doing well learning to roll over, sit up and getting ready to walk on all fours.Cincinnati Zoo Botanical Garden primate specialists say Gladys is in good health, developing and growing quickly with...
• Beavers Help Contain Fuel Spill, Recover Slowly
  A group of six beavers are emerging as key players in helping contain a Chevron diesel fuel spill in Utah that left three of them with severe burns.The Chevron fuel spill leaked about 27,000 gallons of crude oil into soil and marshes at Willard Bay State Park last week...
• Cyberwar Explodes on Internet as Spammers Try to Get Even
  An Internet group considered the world’s leading spam-fighter says it’s been hit with a series of nonstop cyberattacks by spam-sending operations affected by its efforts, creating havoc for computer users worldwide.
• British High Schooler Sells App to Yahoo for Millions
  Two years ago, British teenager Nick D'Aloisio broke all previous records to become the youngest person ever to receive venture capital funding.
• Mars Rover Back in Action After Computer Problems
  The Mars rover Curiosity is humming again after being sidelined by back-to-back computer problems.The six-wheel rover fired up its onboard laboratories and analyzed a pinch of rock dust over the weekend. It had been unable to do science experiments since late last month...
• Letter from DNA Discoverer to be Auctioned in NYC
  Sixty years ago this month, scientist Francis Crick wrote a letter to his 12-year-old son saying he and a colleague had discovered something very beautiful the structure of DNA.Now, the note and its hand-drawn diagrams are being auctioned off in New York.Christie's...
• NASA: Flash in East Coast Sky Likely a Meteor
  East Coast residents were buzzing on social media sites and elsewhere Friday night after a brief but bright flash of light streaked across the early-evening sky in what experts say was almost certainly a meteor coming down.Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environmental...
• Study: Universe Is Older than Previously Thought
  Closer scrutiny of radiation left over from the creation of the universe shows the Big Bang took place about 13.8 billion years ago, 100 million years earlier than previous estimates, scientists said on Thursday. The findings are among the first results from analysis of...
• Pediatricians Say Children Helped by Gay Parents’ Marriage
  The American Academy of Pediatrics threw its support behind same-sex marriage Thursday, ending a four-year review of scientific literature on the issue.

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