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The baby stellar blast happened around 1868, astronomers say. Radio and X-ray techniques are combined to pinpoint the object.
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Researchers speculate that calm conditions in the Pacific altered the route of his ships, which became the first to circle the globe. >>
SCIENCE IN BRIEF
In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers. >>
The finding is based on radar images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which show seven distinct layers of ice and dust. >>
Patients with deficient levels at the time of diagnosis are more likely to have their cancer metastasize and turn deadly, researchers say. But experts caution against treating cancer with supplements. >>
INSURANCE
The action comes after Kaiser Permanente and Health Net reach an agreement with a state agency. >>
The animal, whose habitat has been shrinking with the melting of Arctic sea ice, is the first to be designated as threatened with extinction mainly because of global warming. >>
The Times is asking the two major candidates competing to succeed Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke about some key issues in the 2nd District, which stretches from Mar Vista through South Los Angeles and into Compton and Carson. >>
Federal agencies are accused of ignoring the dangers of bisphenol A, which some experts think may harm the development of children's brains. >>
Hospitals that leave vulnerable patients on skid row would have to pay $25,000. Final vote is expected next week. >>
WorldWide Telescope allows viewers to focus on a particular planet or cluster of stars. One astronomer says it offers 'almost a cinematic representation' of the heavens. >>
Charles Meyer Goldstein, a dentist and USC faculty member who advocated community service and organized free dental clinics that treat thousands of poor people each year, died Sunday at his home in Brentwood from complications of multiple organ failure. He was 87. >>
Dr. Murray E. Jarvik, the UCLA pharmacologist who showed that nicotine was the addictive factor in tobacco and invented the nicotine patch for smokers trying to quit, died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica. >>
Clashing continental plates move an average of 2 inches a year, creating stress along an extensive series of faults throughout Asia. >>
The state links 14 people affiliated with the medical center to the improper viewing of celebrities' files. >>
George P. Cressman, a former National Weather Service director who took the lead in applying computers to meteorology and helped change weather forecasting from a form of cloud-gazing guesswork to a codified science, has died. He was 88. >>
The Republican presidential candidate wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60%. He also pledges to press India and China to make cuts. >>
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MONDAY HEALTH
Online, patients-as-consumers are reviewing doctors. It shifts the balance of power, but raises the question of whether consumers can simply rate an M.D. like they'd review an HDTV.
By Shari Roan, Times Staff Writer.
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Books: science and environment
 The destruction of Lisbon by a major earthquake in 1755 and its repercussions in Enlightenment Europe. May 11.
A mathematician shares his love of numbers, grids and graphs. May 11.
On a millennial path with a caribou herd in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. April 27.
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