Articles filed under Science
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches spacecraft higher than everJul 18, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket company shot a capsule higher into space Wednesday than it's ever done before. The New Shepard rocket blasted ...
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Study: National parks get fewer visits when pollution risesJul 18, 2018 7:00 am - DENVER (AP) - Visitors appear to be steering clear of some U.S. national parks or cutting visits short because of pollution levels that are comparable to what's found in...
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Astronomers spy nearby star that could be chomping a planetJul 18, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Astronomers may have caught a relatively nearby star munching on a planet or mini-planets. A NASA space telescope noticed that the star suddenly starte...
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Jupiter's moon count reaches 79, including tiny 'oddball'Jul 17, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Astronomers are still finding moons at Jupiter, 400 years after Galileo used his spyglass to spot the first ones. The latest discovery of a dozen small m...
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Business experiment: Teen learns entrepreneurship by running science campJul 13, 2018 6:03 am - As founder and owner of Exploding Brainiacs - a science camp in Wheaton that, in its third year, served 70 youngsters in three sessions this summer - Addison "Addy" Henn...
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Addy’s favorite experimentsJul 13, 2018 6:00 am - Addison “Addy” Henninger researches experiments online and sometimes creates her own. Here, she describes a few of her favorites: Elephant’s Toothpaste What happens: To ...
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Addy's favorite experimentsJul 13, 2018 6:00 am - Addison "Addy" Henninger researches experiments online and sometimes creates her own. Here, she describes a few of her favorites: Elephant's ToothpasteWhat happens: ...
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Ancient 'Iceman' shows signs of a well-balanced last mealJul 12, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Talk about a paleo diet. Scientists have uncovered the last meal of a frozen hunter who died 5,300 years ago in the Alps. The stomach contents of the cor...
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Chinese find suggests human relatives left Africa earlierJul 11, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Stone tools recovered from an excavation in China suggest that our evolutionary forerunners trekked out of Africa earlier than we thought. Until now, the...
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Report: NASA needs backup plan as US crew launches slipJul 11, 2018 7:00 am - NASA needs a backup plan for getting astronauts to space, given additional delays on the horizon for new commercial crew capsules, the U.S. Government Accountability Off...