Articles filed under Science
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Space station cargo launches by light of nearly full moonMar 23, 2016 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Fresh supplies shipped out late Tuesday for the International Space Station, where the shelves finally are getting full after a string of fai...
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Beyond record hot, February was 'astronomical' and 'strange'Mar 17, 2016 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Earth got so hot last month that federal scientists struggled to find words, describing temperatures as "astronomical," ''staggering" and "strange." Th...
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Mount Prospect school's science club works with Bosch Tool engineersMar 16, 2016 1:00 am - Fairview School in Mount Prospect Elementary District 57 started a science club this year that incorporates volunteers from Robert Bosch Tool Corp. in Mount Prospect. T...
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Fossil find sheds light on how evolution produced T. rexMar 14, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK - How did evolution produce a monstrous killer like T. rex? A fossil find in Central Asia is giving scientists a glimpse of the process. T. rex and other tyrann...
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Images from Dark Energy Survey on display at Fermilab Art GalleryMar 14, 2016 1:01 am - Spectacular images of the cosmos on display at Fermilab Art Gallery
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'Premier science facility' progressing at North CentralMar 14, 2016 1:00 am - The entire steel skeleton is in place for "the premier multidisciplinary science facility in the Midwest" at North Central College in Naperville. President Troy Hammond ...
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Year-in-space astronaut hangs up his spacesuit, retiresMar 11, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - After spending nearly a year in space, astronaut Scott Kelly is hanging up his spacesuit. NASA announced Kelly's retirement on Friday, less than two we...
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Panel: Finding climate fingerprints in wild weather is validMar 11, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Climate science has progressed so much that experts can accurately detect global warming's fingerprints on certain extreme weather events, such as a he...
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NASA salvages Mars mission that should have launched by nowMar 09, 2016 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's next Mars mission is still alive. Instead of scrapping the grounded Mars InSight spacecraft, the space agency announced Wednesday it's...
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Feds: Still hope for El Nino drenching Southern CaliforniaMar 09, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Even though Southern California hasn't gotten the drought-busting rainy windfall some might have expected from El Nino, federal scientists hold out hop...