Articles filed under Science
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Funeral for lost ice: Iceland bids farewell to glacierAug 18, 2019 7:00 am - OKJOKULL GLACIER, Iceland (AP) - It was a funeral for ice. With poetry, moments of silence and political speeches about the urgent need to fight climate change, Icelandi...
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NASA picks Alabama's 'Rocket City' for lunar lander jobAug 16, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA picked Alabama's "Rocket City" on Friday to lead development of the next moon lander for astronauts. Marshall Space Flight Center in Hun...
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NASA scientists fly over Greenland to track melting iceAug 15, 2019 7:00 am - ABOARD A NASA RESEARCH PLANE OVER GREENLAND (AP) - The fields of rippling ice 500 feet below the NASA plane give way to the blue-green of water dotted with irregular chu...
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Library of spider silk could hold secrets for new materialsAug 14, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - With two pairs of fine-tipped tweezers and the hands of a surgeon, Cheryl Hayashi began dissecting the body of a silver garden spider under her microscop...
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UN climate report: Change land use to avoid a hungry futureAug 08, 2019 7:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - Human-caused climate change is dramatically degrading the Earth's land and the way people use the land is making global warming worse, a new United Nations...
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The Latest: UN official concerned, hopeful on climate changeAug 08, 2019 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on a new United Nations report on climate change (all times local): 3:10 p.m. A manager in the U.N. Climate Change secretariat who helped wr...
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El Nino fades so forecasters expect busier hurricane seasonAug 08, 2019 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Government meteorologists say this year's hurricane season may be busier than initially expected now that summer's weak El Nino has faded away. The Nat...
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Trump's trade war keeps punishing farmers. But farmers remain optimistic.Aug 07, 2019 1:00 am - Investors who got socked by Monday's steep stock market sell-off enjoyed a partial recovery Tuesday, as three major stock bench marks each climbed more than a percent. F...
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'Emotion detection' AI is a $20B industry. But can it do what it claims?Aug 03, 2019 6:12 am - In just a handful of years, the business of emotion detection - using artificial intelligence to identify how people are feeling - has moved beyond the stuff of science ...
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'Vampire' remains found about 30 years ago; now DNA is telling his storyJul 31, 2019 1:00 am - He had been in his grave so long that when his family dug him up to burn his heart, the organ had decomposed and was not there. Desperate to stop him from stalking them,...