Articles filed under Science
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Apollo 11 at 50: Celebrating first steps on another worldJul 13, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from pla...
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Timing put Hoffman Estates engineer on Apollo teamJul 13, 2019 1:00 am - A decade in the making, the Apollo 11 mission to land men on the moon in 1969 required precision timing. That all started in the early '60s with the central timing equip...
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Armstrong's best friend couldn't bear to watch moon landing: 'I knew it was a high-risk situation'Jul 13, 2019 1:00 am - Austin "Jim" Bailey Jr.'s best friend, the pilot he helped train, was about to use the equipment Bailey helped design to do something historic on live television. "You'v...
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Science Says: Airplane turbulence can strike out of the blueJul 12, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - They literally don't see it coming. "Clear-air turbulence," which evidently jolted an Air Canada flight Thursday over the Pacific Ocean, strikes almost l...
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Here's a fact: We went to the moon in 1969Jul 11, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Fifty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, some people insist it never happened and was all a big hoax by the U.S. government. ...
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Former astronaut helps break flight record over polesJul 11, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A former astronaut landed back at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Thursday after helping to shatter a pair of records for a round-the-world ai...
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Greek find called earliest sign of our species out of AfricaJul 10, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists say they've identified the earliest sign of our species outside Africa, a chunk of skull recovered from a cave in southern Greece. Its estimat...
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Scientists get peek into how some fish change sex as adultsJul 10, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - If in the beginning there was male and female, fish seem to have forgotten the memo. For nearly 500 fish species, including the clownfish in "Finding Nem...
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Elon Musk's satellites dot the heavens, leaving stargazers upsetJul 08, 2019 1:00 am - Two days after Elon Musk's SpaceX launched 60 satellites in May as part of a mission to bring quick internet service to people worldwide, astronomers noticed something d...
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Best way to fight climate change? Plant a trillion treesJul 04, 2019 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - The most effective way to fight global warming is to plant lots of trees, a study says. A trillion of them, maybe more. And there's enough room, Swiss scien...