McCain says 'Apple is one of the biggest tax avoiders' in US

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• Flickr gets new look and a terabyte of free space in update
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Ant abilities could aid robot design

A study showing how ants tunnel their way through confined spaces could aid the design of search and rescue robots, say scientists.

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• EU bathing water 2012 data released
• Rover drills second rock sample
• Irish potato famine pest identified
• UK astronaut given station date
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• Deep sea 'gold rush' moves closer
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• Expert issues UK tree threat warning
• The Ice Age giants of North America
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• UK company withdraws death row drug
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Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash on the moon

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists said on Friday.

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• NASA telescope's planet-hunting days may be over
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• Critics slam new cloning research
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• Spacewalking repairmen replace space station's leaky pump
• Spacewalk planned to fix ammonia leak on space station
• U.S. returning looted Tyrannosaurus skeleton to Mongolia
• Solar-powered plane wraps first leg of flight across United States
• Solar-powered plane wraps first leg of flight across U.S
• Boeing demonstrator breaks hypersonic flight record
• Solar-powered plane takes off for flight across U.S.
• Big drugmakers think small with nanomedicine deals
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• Virgin's passenger spaceship completes first rocket test flight
• Alexander Graham Bell speaks, and 2013 hears his voice
• Space junk needs to be removed from Earth's orbit: ESA
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• Hubble telescope spies incoming Comet ISON
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• Slow is scary if France quits nuclear : state institute
• New U.S. rocket blasts off from Virginia launch pad
• New U.S. rocket blasts off from Virginia launch pad

National Weather Service gets big computing boost

By Tom Brown MIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. National Weather Service is getting a quantum jump in computing power that will significantly improve its forecasting and storm tracking abilities to better protect the country from severe weather. "This is a game changer," Louis Uccellini, who took over as director of the National Weather Service in February, told Reuters in an interview, calling it "the

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