Articles filed under Science
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Would you give up health or location data to return to work?Apr 15, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Cameron Karosis usually strives to protect his personal information. But a scary bout of COVID-19 that began last month with headaches and fevers, prog...
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Mercury-bound spacecraft buzzes Earth, beams back picturesApr 10, 2020 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A Mercury-bound spacecraft swooped past Earth on Friday, tweaking its roundabout path to the solar system's smallest and innermost planet. L...
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Tie game: Ancient bit of string shows Neanderthal handiworkApr 09, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - It looked like a white splotch on the underside of a Neanderthal stone tool. But a microscope showed it was a bunch of fibers twisted around each other. ...
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Apollo 13's most famous quotes originated in HollywoodApr 09, 2020 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Apollo 13'²s best known quotes originated not in space or Mission Control, but in Hollywood. Their moon-bound spacecraft wrecked by an oxygen...
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'Houston, we've had a problem': Remembering Apollo 13 at 50Apr 09, 2020 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Apollo 13'²s astronauts never gave a thought to their mission number as they blasted off for the moon 50 years ago. Even when their oxygen ta...
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Modeling coronavirus: 'Uncertainty is the only certainty'Apr 07, 2020 7:00 am - SEATTLE (AP) - A statistical model cited by the White House generated a slightly less grim figure Monday for a first wave of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in the ...
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How Willowbrook grad is working with 'a laser focus' to find COVID-19 treatmentApr 07, 2020 1:00 am - While Rob Stahelin studied chemistry as an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois-Chicago, he read “The Hot Zone,” a book about the dangers of Ebola, Marbur...
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Catch this week's supermoon, biggest and brightest of yearApr 06, 2020 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A supermoon rises in the sky this week, looking to be the biggest and brightest of the year. Not only will the moon be closer to Earth than ...
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NASA call for astronauts draws 12,000 spaceflight hopefulsApr 01, 2020 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Who wants to be an astronaut? More than 12,000 people do, resulting in NASA's second-largest group of astronaut hopefuls. NASA said Wednesda...
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Not all or nothing: Anti-virus lockdowns could lift slowlyMar 27, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - For the millions of Americans living under some form of lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, not knowing when the restrictions will end is a...