Articles filed under Science
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Why more frequent cold blasts could be coming from global warmingJan 07, 2025 7:28 am - Frigid air that normally stays trapped in the Arctic has escaped, plunging deep into the United States for an extended visit that is expected to provoke teeth-chattering but not be record-shattering.
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Here's your 2025 guide to the night sky and other celestial wow momentsJan 03, 2025 12:46 pm - The new year will bring a pair of lunar eclipses, but don’t expect any sun-disappearing acts like the one that mesmerized North America last spring.
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Treatment shows promise for Lake County’s Blanding’s turtlesNov 18, 2024 3:50 pm - Ecologists from the Lake County Forest Preserves are testing an experimental treatment to protect Blanding’s turtles from a dangerous, potentially fatal fungal disease.
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How Argonne, Fermilab will use federal energy conservation grantsNov 11, 2024 1:05 pm - Argonne, a research powerhouse in DuPage County, plans to make a 1980s-era building more energy efficient and reduce its carbon footprint with the help of federal dollars. The U.S. Department of Energy last month announced nearly $150 million in funding for dozens of energy conservation and clean energy projects at federal facilities, including Argonne and Fermilab.
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Al Gore honors climate reality leader Donald Viecelli with Alfredo Sirkis Memorial Green Ring AwardOct 25, 2024 9:27 pm - Former U.S. Vice President and founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, Al Gore, presented the Alfredo Sirkis Memorial Green Ring Award to Climate Reality L...
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NASA spacecraft rockets toward Jupiter’s moon Europa in search of the right conditions for lifeOct 14, 2024 2:17 pm - A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life.
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After the northern lights show, what’s next in the night sky? Comets, supermoon and meteor showersOct 11, 2024 4:14 pm - The aurora borealis made a special appearance in the night skies over much of the suburbs late Thursday, and there’s a slim chance they’ll be back again Friday.
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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to 3 scientists for work on proteins, building blocks of lifeOct 09, 2024 7:08 am - The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to three scientists for their breakthrough work predicting and even designing the structure of proteins, the building blocks of life.
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Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physicsOct 08, 2024 6:53 am - Two pioneers of artificial intelligence – John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton – won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats to humanity, one of the winners said.
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Stargazing class Oct. 13 in Hawthorn WoodsOct 08, 2024 6:24 am - Hawthorn Woods, an International Dark Sky Community, is hosting a stargazing class from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13. Open to all ages and families. Participants will ...