Articles filed under Science
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When will U of I's saliva test see wider rollout?Sep 04, 2020 5:30 am - When the Illinois Department of Public Health announced the state's daily COVID-19 testing data Monday, something odd was tucked in among the county figures. It showed t...
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Once seen as loners, male elephants shown to follow eldersSep 03, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A line of elephants trundles across a dusty landscape in northern Botswana, ears flapping and trunks occasionally brushing the ground. As they pass a m...
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Cosmic Legos: Black holes merge into never before seen sizeSep 02, 2020 7:00 am - Black holes are getting stranger - even to astronomers. They've now detected the signal from a long ago violent collision of two black holes that created a new one of a ...
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Endangered turtles bred at Brookfield Zoo released into DuPage wildSep 02, 2020 1:00 am - The tiny turtle squirming in Dan Thompson's hands looks like a content creature. The shape of its mouth gives the appearance of a smile and the impression that the young...
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Damage from whopper hurricanes rising for many reasonsAug 26, 2020 7:00 am - A destructive storm is rising from warm waters. Again. America and the world are getting more frequent and bigger multibillion dollar tropical catastrophes like Hurrican...
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Gene sleuths suggests wide virus spread from Boston meetingAug 25, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - A meeting at a hotel in Boston last February may have ignited the spread of the pandemic virus to some 19,000 people in the area, a new study suggests. H...
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Record melt: Greenland lost 586 billion tons of ice in 2019Aug 20, 2020 7:00 am - Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than four feet (1.25 meters) of water, a new st...
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Science Says: Climate change, people stoke California firesAug 20, 2020 7:00 am - If you want to build a fire, you need three things: Ignition, fuel and oxygen. But wildfire in California is a much more complex people-stoked witch's brew. The state b...
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Canada's last intact ice shelf collapses due to warmingAug 07, 2020 7:00 am - Much of Canada's remaining intact ice shelf has broken apart into hulking iceberg islands thanks to a hot summer and global warming, scientists said. Canada's 4,000-year...
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Virus lockdown for world's smallest and rarest wild pigsAug 06, 2020 7:00 am - NEW DELHI (AP) - Pygmy hogs - the world's smallest and rarest wild pig - are under a virus lockdown. Not because of the coronavirus, but because of the first outbreak of...