Articles filed under Science
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Restored Mission Control comes alive 50 years after ApolloJun 28, 2019 7:00 am - HOUSTON (AP) - Gone is the haze of cigarette, cigar and pipe smoke. Gone are the coffee, soda and pizza stains. With only a few exceptions, NASA's Apollo-era Mission Con...
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NASA plans to send a drone to Saturn's largest moonJun 27, 2019 7:00 am - Get ready to see another world from the eyes of a dragonfly - at least, a robotic one. NASA said Thursday that it's sending a drone called Dragonfly to explore Saturn's ...
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NASA opening moon rock samples sealed since Apollo missionsJun 26, 2019 7:00 am - HOUSTON (AP) - Inside a locked vault at Johnson Space Center is treasure few have seen and fewer have touched. The restricted lab is home to hundreds of pounds of moon r...
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SpaceX launches hefty rocket with 24 satellites, experimentsJun 25, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - SpaceX launched its heftiest rocket with 24 research satellites Tuesday, a middle-of-the-night rideshare featuring a deep space atomic clock,...
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Restaurants could be 1st to get genetically modified salmonJun 21, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Inside an Indiana aquafarming complex, thousands of salmon eggs genetically modified to grow faster than normal are hatching into tiny fish. After growin...
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AP-NORC poll: Asteroid watch more urgent than Mars tripJun 20, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Americans prefer a space program that focuses on potential asteroid impacts, scientific research and using robots to explore the cosmos over ...
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Lost wallet? More cash means you're likelier to get it backJun 20, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - People are more likely to return a lost wallet if it contains money - and the more cash, the better. That's the surprising conclusion from researchers wh...
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Survey sees biggest U.S. honeybee winter die-off yetJun 19, 2019 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - Winter hit U.S. honeybees hard with the highest loss rate yet, an annual survey of beekeepers showed. The annual nationwide survey by the Bee Informed Partn...
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Old spy images reveal Himalayan glaciers are melting fastJun 19, 2019 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Cold War era spy satellite images are showing scientists that glaciers on the Himalayas are now melting about twice as fast as they used to. The Asian ...
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U.S. air quality is slipping after years of improvementJun 18, 2019 7:00 am - After decades of improvement, America's air may not be getting any cleaner. Over the last two years the nation had more polluted air days than just a few years earlier, ...