Articles filed under Science
-
Feds: Still hope for El Nino drenching Southern CaliforniaMar 09, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Even though Southern California hasn't gotten the drought-busting rainy windfall some might have expected from El Nino, federal scientists hold out hop...
-
Winter warmer-land: U.S. breaks record for hottest winterMar 08, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON - Federal meteorologists say the winter that has just ended was the hottest in U.S. records, thanks to the combination of El Nino and man-made global warming....
-
Revamped satellite data shows no pause in global warmingMar 04, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Climate change doubters may have lost one of their key talking points: a particular satellite temperature dataset that had seemed to show no warming fo...
-
System may forecast tornadoes 2 to 3 weeks in advanceMar 04, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers say they've come up with a way to predict the likelihood of tornadoes two or three weeks in advance - a step toward better warnings of stor...
-
1-year spaceman: Tired, joints ache, can't sink basketballMar 04, 2016 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Fresh from a year in space, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly said Friday his muscles and joints ache. His skin is so sensitive it burns when he sit...
-
SpaceX launches satellite, but fails to land rocket on bargeMar 04, 2016 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - SpaceX has another launch under its belt, but not another rocket landing. The leftover first-stage booster hit the floating platform hard Fri...
-
Yearlong spaceman plunges into pool: 'Man, that feels good'Mar 03, 2016 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's yearlong spaceman Scott Kelly took a long-anticipated plunge Thursday, jumping into his backyard pool, astronaut outfit and all. "Oh, ...
-
Yearlong spacemen embrace fresh, frigid air back on EarthMar 03, 2016 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Ah, there's nothing like a blast of fresh, frigid air to welcome you back to the planet after nearly a year cooped up in space. That's the wo...
-
Astronomers spot record distant galaxy from early cosmosMar 03, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Astronomers say they have discovered a hot, star-popping galaxy that is far, far away - farther than any previously detected, from a time when the univ...
-
Wright Brothers replica builder to work with Montana IndiansMar 03, 2016 4:20 am - As a carpenter, Mark Miller had built things before. Like, oh, you know, a replica of the Wright Brothers' first plane, one that could fly. But this was something differ...