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Breakthrough gives 3-D vision of dawn of life

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Reuters - A new technique allowing virtual dissections of half-billion year old fossil embryos is producing the first three-dimensional images of the dawn of life.

Paleontologists X-ray fossil embryos

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AP - Paleontologists have created detailed three-dimensional images of evolution's first multicellular creatures in their embryonic stages, some so detailed that they reveal more about the development of long-extinct creatures than scientists know about their modern counterparts.

US energy reserves slide

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AFP - US crude oil and gasoline inventories fell heavily over the past week, the Department of Energy said.

US sends plane to check on Atlantic tropical wave

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Reuters - The U.S. Air Force is sending a plane to investigate whether a strong tropical wave near the Windward Islands has strengthened into a tropical depression or storm, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in a report Wednesday.

Physicist James Van Allen dies at 91

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AP - Physicist James A. Van Allen, a leader in space exploration who discovered the radiation belts surrounding the earth that now bear his name, died Wednesday. He was 91.

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