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Scientists excited about Iowa mammoth discovery
June 6, 2012 8:05 PM
OSKALOOSA, Iowa (AP) - An unusual discovery of mammoth bones on a rural Oskaloosa farm has experts studying prehistoric life excited about scientific discoveries that may lie with the massive beast. The find is rare because it appears to include much of the animal's skeleton undisturbed. That allows scientists to... more » -
Babies lip-read as part of learning to talk
January 16, 2012 4:21 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too. It happens during that magical stage when a baby's babbling gradually changes from gibberish into syllables and eventually into that first "mama" or "dada." Florida scientists discovered that starting around... more » -
Hundreds evacuated, 1 dead after flooding in Iowa
August 12, 2010 8:10 AM
Flooding in Iowa has forced hundreds of people from their homes and left a 16-year-old girl dead. In Ames, flooding contributed to a water main break that forced the city to shut off water to its roughly 55,000 residents. It also left Iowa State University's basketball arena under 4... more »
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