Articles filed under Science
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Carmel High partners with Stanford to help underrepresented students break into STEM careersJan 18, 2021 12:00 am - Michelle Titterton realized while in college and after working in the energy sector for 15 years that there is a glaring scarcity of female and minority workers in engin...
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Beetle keeps rivals off scent of food buried for offspringJan 17, 2021 6:00 am - Some beetles go to great - and disgusting - lengths for their children. They scout for a dead mouse or bird, dig a hole and bury it, pluck its fur or feathers, roll its...
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Blue Origin launches capsule to space with astronaut perksJan 15, 2021 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company launched a new capsule into space Thursday to test all the astronaut perks before people strap in. Thursday's...
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RIP: Mars digger bites the dust after 2 years on red planetJan 14, 2021 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA declared the Mars digger dead Thursday after failing to burrow deep into the red planet to take its temperature. Scientists in Germany s...
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Hot again: 2020 sets yet another global temperature recordJan 14, 2021 6:00 am - Earth's rising fever hit or neared record hot temperature levels in 2020, global weather groups reported Thursday. While NASA and a couple of other measurement groups sa...
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Cheers! French wine, vines headed home after year in spaceJan 12, 2021 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The International Space Station bid adieu Tuesday to 12 bottles of French Bordeaux wine and hundreds of snippets of grapevines that spent a y...
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Identical twins aren't perfect clones, research showsJan 07, 2021 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - If you're an identical twin who's always resisted being called a clone of your sibling, scientists say you have a point. Identical twins are not exactl...
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One-third of America's rivers have changed color since 1984Jan 07, 2021 6:00 am - America's rivers are changing color - and people are behind many of the shifts, a new study said. One-third of the tens of thousands of mile-long (two kilometer-long) ri...
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School districts to roll out COVID-19 saliva screeningsJan 06, 2021 4:30 am - A growing number of suburban school districts are preparing to roll out a COVID-19 saliva screening program aimed at curbing the spread of the virus as students return t...
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Study: Warming already baked in will blow past climate goalsJan 04, 2021 6:00 am - The amount of baked-in global warming, from carbon pollution already in the air, is enough to blow past international agreed upon goals to limit climate change, a new st...