Articles filed under Science
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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 ...
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Federal study: New climate law to slice carbon pollution 40%Aug 18, 2022 7:00 am - Clean energy incentives in the new spending package signed this week by President Joe Biden will trim America's emissions of heat-trapping gases by about 1.1 billion ton...
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Giant sharks once roamed the seas, feasting on huge mealsAug 17, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Today's sharks have nothing on their ancient cousins. A giant shark that roamed the oceans millions of years ago could have devoured a creature the size ...
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Russian spacewalk cut short by bad battery in cosmonaut suitAug 17, 2022 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A Russian spacewalker had to rush back inside the International Space Station on Wednesday when the battery voltage in his spacesuit suddenly...
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NASA's moon rocket moved to launch pad for 1st test flightAug 17, 2022 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad Wednesday ahead of its debut flight in less than two weeks. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket ...