Articles filed under Science
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Constable: A star is born, as Wheaton native makes astrophysics historyApr 05, 2022 5:30 am - In his adolescent dreams as a student at Wheaton Warrenville South High School, Brian Welch fantasized about a pie-in-the-sky career as a star tight end with the Chicago...
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Fermilab appoints first woman as directorApr 05, 2022 1:00 am - For the first time in its history, a woman will lead Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia. Lia Merminga, an internationally renowned physicist, will take the...
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Fire and rain: West to get more one-two extreme climate hitsApr 01, 2022 7:00 am - The one-two punch of nasty wildfires followed by heavy downpours, triggering flooding and mudslides, will strike the U.S. West far more often in a warming-hopped world,...
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Scientists finally finish decoding entire human genomeMar 31, 2022 7:00 am - Scientists say they have finally assembled the full genetic blueprint for human life, adding the missing pieces to a puzzle nearly completed two decades ago. An internat...
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US astronaut ends record spaceflight with Russian ride homeMar 30, 2022 7:00 am - A NASA astronaut caught a Russian ride back to Earth on Wednesday after a U.S. record 355 days at the International Space Station, returning with two cosmonauts to a wor...
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Twinkle, twinkle giant star, astronomers see how far you areMar 30, 2022 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronomers have discovered the farthest star yet, a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the...
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Ice shelf collapses in previously stable East AntarcticaMar 25, 2022 7:00 am - An ice shelf the size of New York City has collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long thought to be stable and not hit much by climate change, concerned scientists said ...
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Scientists figure out how vampire bats got a taste for bloodMar 25, 2022 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have figured out why vampire bats are the only mammals that can survive on a diet of just blood. They compared the genome of common vampire ...
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Hot poles: Antarctica, Arctic 70 and 50 degrees above normalMar 18, 2022 7:00 am - Earth's poles are undergoing simultaneous freakish extreme heat with parts of Antarctica more than 70 degrees (40 degrees Celsius) warmer than average and areas of the A...
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Space telescope's image of star gets photobombed by galaxiesMar 17, 2022 7:00 am - NASA's new space telescope has gazed into the distant universe and shown perfect vision: a spiky image of a faraway star photobombed by thousands of ancient galaxies. Th...