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Green comet streaking through the night sky will be visible in suburbs for a few weeksJan 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.
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Loved or hated, Fauci's parting advice: Stick to the science
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.
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Historic biodiversity agreement reached at UN conference
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.
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Satellite launched to map the world's oceans, lakes, rivers
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.
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Extinctions, shrinking habitat spur 'rewilding' in cities
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.
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Lawmakers hope to rename Fermilab research center after noted physicistDec 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.
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NASA capsule buzzes moon, last big step before lunar orbit
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.
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NASA capsule on way to moon after launch by giant new rocket
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.
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As climate warms, a China planner advocates "sponge cities"
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."
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NASA's moon rocket on track for Wednesday launch attempt
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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