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The Dawn spacecraft launched by NASA took this photo of the pockmarked surface of the asteroid Vesta from 9,500 miles away. The data gathered by the craft over the next year should help future manned missions.

    Spacecraft cozies up to huge asteroid

    Scientists are busy poring over images of the massive asteroid Vesta, the first time it has been photographed up close.


  • Coverage with no copay extended to birth control

    A half-century after the advent of the pill, the Obama administration on Monday ushered in a change in women's health care potentially as transformative: coverage of birth control as prevention, with no copays.


  • **FILE** A container for birth-control pills designed to look like a woman's compact is displayed. (Associated Press)

    Insurers must cover birth control with no copays

    Health insurance plans must cover birth control as preventive care for women, with no copays, the Obama administration said Monday in a decision with far-reaching implications for health care as well as social mores.


  • Internet archivist seeks 1 of every book written

    Tucked away in a small warehouse on a dead-end street, an Internet pioneer is building a bunker to protect an endangered species: the printed word.


  • Dawn spacecraft gets cozy with massive asteroid

    Scientists are busy poring over images of the massive asteroid Vesta, the first time it has been photographed up close.


  • Associated Press
Liberal California law professor Goodwin Liu, nominated Tuesday to the state Supreme Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, said he looked forward "to the opportunity to serve the people of California on our state's highest court."

    For failed Obama nominee, a consolation prize

    University of California at Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu was nominated Tuesday to the California Supreme Court, a scant two months after his candidacy for a federal judgeship was derailed by Republican objections to his left-leaning legal philosophy.


  • Next Mars rover will land in 96-mile-wide crater

    NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a towering mountain inside a 96-mile-wide crater to search for evidence that the region once had conditions capable of supporting microbial life, project officials announced Friday.


  • Virginia Tech senior and resident adviser David Dorsett (left) visits with fellow student Matt Londrey. Virginia Tech, among many other public colleges and universities, is raising tuition rates this fall. (Associated Press)

    Colleges raise tuition as much as 22 percent

    Parents and students are bracing for a new round of sticker shock this fall as public colleges and universities are hiking prices again, this time to make up for massive cuts in state budgets.


  • Lack of sperm coating plays role in infertility

    Scientists have found a new contributor to male infertility, a protein that's supposed to coat sperm to help them swim to an egg _ unless that coating goes missing.


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