Articles filed under Science
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After decades in eye of storms, weather service head retiresSep 07, 2021 7:00 am - Louis Uccellini has watched dangerous storms brew - one notable political one and many meteorological ones - and survived. Now after eight years leading the National Wea...
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How U of I fought the clock to develop a COVID-19 test that schools will use this fallSep 07, 2021 5:00 am - In the spring of 2020 with no COVID-19 vaccines, an unchecked killer virus and shutdown fears, a team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign created a solutio...
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FAA bans Virgin Galactic launches while probing Branson tripSep 02, 2021 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that Virgin Galactic cannot launch anyone into space again until an investigation is comple...
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NASA's newest Mars rover snags 1st rock sample for returnSep 02, 2021 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's newest Mars rover has successfully collected its first rock sample for return to Earth, after last month's attempt came up empty. The ...
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EXPLAINER: How Ida can be so deadly 1000 miles from landfallSep 02, 2021 7:00 am - Natural and some man-made ingredients came together, causing the weakened but still soggy remnants of Hurricane Ida to devastate the Northeast more than 1,000 miles (1,6...
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UN: Weather disasters soar in numbers, cost, but deaths fallSep 01, 2021 7:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, the United Nations weather ag...
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Once green, prehistoric Arabia drew early humans from AfricaSep 01, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Huw Groucutt passes rolling sand dunes as far as his eye can see when traveling to archaeological sites in the northern Arabian Peninsula. But the same...
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Astronaut gets special ice cream delivery for 50th birthdayAug 30, 2021 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A space station astronaut is celebrating her 50th birthday with the coolest present ever - a supply ship bearing ice cream and other treats. ...
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Birds of prey face global decline from habitat loss, poisonsAug 30, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite a few high-profile conservation success stories '“ like the dramatic comeback of bald eagle populations in North America '“ birds of prey are i...
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EXPLAINER: Ida similar to Katrina, but stronger, smallerAug 29, 2021 7:00 am - Hurricane Ida is looking eerily like a dangerous and perhaps scarier sequel to 2005's Hurricane Katrina, the costliest storm in American history. But there's a few still...