Articles filed under Science
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Vice president wants US businesses trailblazing into spaceFeb 21, 2018 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Vice President Mike Pence and his new space advisory council want U.S. private companies moving faster and farther into the cosmos, with the ...
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Spacewalking astronauts finish months of robot arm repairFeb 16, 2018 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Spacewalking astronauts wrapped up months of repair work Friday on the International Space Station 's big robot arm. The Canadian-built, 58-f...
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Trump aims for moon, pulls back on space station, telescopesFeb 12, 2018 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The Trump administration wants NASA out of the International Space Station by 2025, and private businesses running the place instead. Under P...
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Satellites show warming is accelerating sea level riseFeb 12, 2018 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up the already fast pace of sea level rise, new satellite research shows. At the current ra...
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Patrick Stewart recites Shakespeare at Sci-Tech AwardsFeb 11, 2018 6:00 am - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Patrick Stewart was so inspired by the inventors and inventions being honored by the motion picture academy Saturday night that he offered a...
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Science Olympians compete in GrayslakeFeb 10, 2018 12:00 am - While thousands of world-class athletes competed at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, hundreds of potentially world-class scientists competed at an invita...
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Farthest photos ever taken, from nearly 4 billion miles awayFeb 09, 2018 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The NASA spacecraft that gave us close-ups of Pluto has set a record for the farthest photos ever taken. In December - while 3.79 billion mil...
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Asteroid coming close Friday: Don't worry, we're safeFeb 08, 2018 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Another asteroid is headed our way - the second this week - but there's no need to worry. The newly discovered space rock will pass within 39...
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Inventors have their own Oscars: The Sci-Tech AwardsFeb 08, 2018 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Engineers and inventors who create innovations for the movie business have their own Academy Awards. Presented since 1931, the film academy's Scientif...
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Dinosaur-killing space rock may have triggered sea volcanoesFeb 07, 2018 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The giant space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs may have set off a chain of cataclysmic volcanic eruptions on land and undersea, claims a new study t...