Articles filed under Science
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No free lunch for renewables: More wind power would warm U.S.Oct 03, 2018 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Ramping up wind power in America would also dial up the nation's temperatures, a new study out of Harvard found. While wind energy is widely celebrated as e...
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NASA's Pluto explorer adjusts course as next icy world loomsOct 03, 2018 11:00 pm - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The NASA spacecraft that explored Pluto has adjusted course as its next target looms. New Horizons fired its thrusters late Wednesday way out in o...
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Have astronomers found 1st moon outside our solar system?Oct 03, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronomers may have found the first moon outside our solar system, a gas behemoth the size of Neptune. Plenty of planets exist beyond our solar s...
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Remembering Leon Lederman: Scientist, Fermilab leader, education advocateOct 03, 2018 1:00 am - Nobel Prize winner. Political advocate for science education who proposed what would become Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The guy who gave an enduring nickname ...
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe swinging by Venus on way to sunOct 02, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's Parker Solar Probe is swinging by Venus on its unprecedented journey to the sun. Launched in August, the spacecraft gets a gravity ass...
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Scrawny dwarf planet, named Goblin, found well beyond PlutoOct 02, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A scrawny dwarf planet nicknamed the Goblin has been discovered well beyond Pluto. A round frozen world just 186 miles (300 kilometers) acros...
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Nobel Prize in physics awarded for 'tools made of light'; first woman in 55 years honoredOct 02, 2018 1:00 am - The 2018 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded Tuesday to Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for their pioneering work to turn lasers into powerful tools. As...
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Photos from Japanese space rovers show asteroid is ... rockySep 28, 2018 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - New photos taken on the surface of an asteroid show that it is (drum roll, please) ... rocky. It may be no surprise, but Japan space agency scientists and e...
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Trump administration: Global temps will rise 7 degrees by 2100, so don't bother with regulationsSep 28, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental impact statement, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: On its current course, the planet will ...
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Experts say Ford got the science of memory mostly rightSep 27, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK - In her testimony to a Senate committee, the woman who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers dipped briefly into the mech...