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SALT LAKE CITY - A disease that can deform trout, cause them to chase their own tail and eventually lead to their starvation, continues to spread swiftly through Utah's waterways. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources announced Thursday that six of 30 brown trout taken from Huntington Creek last fall were found to have whirling disease, said Chris Wilson, director of the Fisheries Experiment Station. Huntington Creek is a Blue Ribbon fishery that runs along State Road 31 north of Huntington. The designation means the creek has a viable population of wild fish. The discovery of whirling disease in Huntington...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reckless pulsars -- spinning searchlights in space -- might tear themselves apart if they whirled too fast, but ripples in the cosmic fabric first predicted by Albert Einstein may set a celestial speed limit. That limit is still extremely high, about 760 revolutions per second, astronomers said on Wednesday. But scientists figure some of the fastest pulsars could technically go two or three times that speed. Unfortunately, they would inevitably disintegrate if they did. What stops them is the phenomenon predicted by Einstein's theory of relativity -- the rippling of the fabric of space and time. Known...