Articles filed under Science
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NASA moon rocket on track for launch despite lightning hitsAug 28, 2022 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's new moon rocket remained on track to blast off on a crucial test flight Monday, despite a series of lightning strikes at the launch pa...
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Dangerous heat predicted to hit 3 times more often in futureAug 25, 2022 7:00 am - What's considered officially 'œdangerous heat'ť in coming decades will likely hit much of the world at least three times more often as climate change worsens, according ...
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Boeing astronaut flight off until next year for more fixesAug 25, 2022 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Boeing's first spaceflight with astronauts has been delayed until next year because of repairs that need to be made to the capsule following ...
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Scientists use stem cells to create synthetic mouse embryosAug 25, 2022 7:00 am - Scientists have created 'œsynthetic'ť mouse embryos from stem cells without a dad's sperm or a mom's egg or womb. The lab-created embryos mirror a natural mouse embryo u...
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EXPLAINER: NASA tests new moon rocket, 50 years after ApolloAug 24, 2022 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Years late and billions over budget, NASA's new moon rocket makes its debut next week in a high-stakes test flight before astronauts get on t...
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Our first steps? Fossil may boost case for earliest ancestorAug 24, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Twenty years ago, scientists discovered a 7-million-year-old skull that they concluded belonged to a creature who walked upright and was our earliest kno...
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Weather whiplash: Summer lurches from drought to floodAug 23, 2022 7:00 am - Parts of northern Texas, mired in a drought labeled as extreme and exceptional, are flooding under torrential rain. In a drought. Sound familiar? It should. The Dallas r...
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New space telescope shows Jupiter's auroras, tiny moonsAug 22, 2022 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The world's newest and biggest space telescope is showing Jupiter as never before, auroras and all. Scientists released the shots Monday of ...
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Skeeter solutions: On World Mosquito Day, here are tips on how to avoid bitesAug 20, 2022 5:30 am - As commemorations go, World Mosquito Day is rather inauspicious. Observed on Aug. 20, it marks Dr. Ronald Ross' 1897 discovery that mosquitoes transmit the parasite that...
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Daily Herald opinion: Mundelein project shows how nature can be used in redevelopmentAug 19, 2022 1:00 am - This editorial is the consensus opinon of the Daily Herald Editorial Board If you read Russell Lissau's page 1 story on Monday, you already know that Mundelein has ...