Articles filed under Science
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Dolphins' playful social habits form bonds, but spread virusApr 07, 2022 7:00 am - REEDVILLE, Va. (AP) - Three young male dolphins simultaneously break the water's surface to breathe - first exhaling, then inhaling - before slipping back under the wave...
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Key particle weighs in a bit heavy, confounding physicistsApr 07, 2022 7:00 am - The grand explanation physicists use to describe how the universe works may have some major new flaws to patch after a fundamental particle was found to have more mass t...
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More delays for NASA's moon rocket test, fueling stalledApr 05, 2022 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's dress rehearsal for its mega moon rocket is off until at least this weekend because of a pair of technical problems that kept stalling...
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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 ...