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Green comet streaking through the night sky will be visible in suburbs for a few weeks

By Doug T. Graham
Jan 11, 2023 6:30 AM - Amateur astronomers of the suburbs, take note: For the next few weeks a bright, green-tinted comet will be visible in the night sky through telescopes or binoculars before it slips from view for another 50,000 years, some experts say.
Loved or hated, Fauci's parting advice: Stick to the science

By LAURAN NEERGAARD
Dec 19, 2022 12:16 PM - Long before the bobbleheads and the "Fauci ouchie," Dr. Anthony Fauci was a straight-shooter about scary diseases -- and "stick with the science" remains his mantra.
Historic biodiversity agreement reached at UN conference

By MICHAEL CASEY
Dec 19, 2022 10:10 AM - Negotiators reached a historic deal at a U.N. biodiversity conference early Monday that would represent the most significant effort to protect the world's lands and oceans and provide critical financing to save biodiversity in the developing world.
Satellite launched to map the world's oceans, lakes, rivers

By MARCIA DUNN
Dec 16, 2022 10:16 AM - A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world's oceans, lakes and rivers rocketed into orbit Friday.
Extinctions, shrinking habitat spur 'rewilding' in cities

By JOHN FLESHER
Dec 7, 2022 10:21 AM - Animal and plant species are dying off at an alarming rate, with up to 1 million threatened with extinction, according to a 2019 United Nations report. Their plight is stirring calls for "rewilding" places where they thrived until driven out by development, pollution and climate change.
Lawmakers hope to rename Fermilab research center after noted physicist

By Alicia Fabbre
Dec 4, 2022 3:50 PM - Federal lawmakers from Illinois have introduced legislation to rename Fermilab's Integrated Engineering Research Center after the late Helen Edwards, a particle physicist who worked at the Batavia facility for 40 years.
NASA capsule buzzes moon, last big step before lunar orbit

By MARCIA DUNN
Nov 21, 2022 8:45 PM - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA's Orion capsule reached the moon Monday, whipping around the far side and buzzing the lunar surface on its way to a record-breaking orbit with test dummies sitting in for astronauts. It's the first time a capsule has visited the moon since NASA's Apollo program 50 years ago, and represents a huge milestone in the $4.1 billion test flight that began last Wednesday.
NASA capsule on way to moon after launch by giant new rocket

By MARCIA DUNN
Nov 16, 2022 1:06 PM - A space capsule hurtled toward the moon Wednesday for the first time in 50 years, following a thunderous launch of NASA's mightiest rocket in a dress rehearsal for astronaut flights.
As climate warms, a China planner advocates "sponge cities"

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA
Nov 15, 2022 12:10 PM - To cushion the impact of extreme weather due to climate change, a Chinese landscape architect has been making the case for China and other countries to create so-called "sponge cities."
NASA's moon rocket on track for Wednesday launch attempt

By MARCIA DUNN
Nov 14, 2022 6:58 PM - NASA is counting down to this week's planned liftoff of its new moon rocket after an evaluation of hurricane damage

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