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World's top scientists to review climate panel (AP)

AP - At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world's most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning global warming panel.

CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella (AP)

AP - As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries.

Another runaway Toyota Prius reported (Reuters)

Reuters - Federal regulators said they were looking into a report of another runaway Toyota Prius, this one in Westchester County, New York, where police said a woman pulling out of a driveway zoomed across a busy street and into a stone wall.

Effort to Map Human Brain Faces Complex Challenges (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Mapping the connections among brain cells could someday prove as revolutionary as mapping the human genome. But tracing each synaptic connection between neurons - essentially a manual effort so far - has proven painstakingly slow. To approach a thorough mapping, researchers will have to develop a computer-automated process.

Czech repair of famed Charles Bridge faces protest (AP)

AP - Built like a mighty fortress, Charles Bridge has survived floods and fires over the past 650 years. But conservationists are warning that the storied span linking Prague's two oldest neighborhoods might succumb to a different threat — renovation.

SpaceX aborts rocket engine test (Reuters)

Reuters - Space Exploration Technologies aborted a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, in what was to be a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and eventually astronauts -- to the International Space...