Articles filed under Science
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Spacewalking astronauts grease robot arm's new handOct 10, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Spacewalking astronauts hustled through a lube job and camera swaps outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, their second trip out...
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Dirty old birds shed light on key global warming particleOct 09, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Some dirty old birds are helping scientists better understand one of the more baffling climate change mysteries. University of Chicago researchers Shan...
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Winds, floods and fire: US ties record for costly weatherOct 06, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Howling winds, deadly floods, fire and ice so far this year have pushed the U.S. into a tie for weather disasters that topped $1 billion in damages. Th...
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Not so sweet: 75 percent of honey samples had key pesticideOct 05, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - When researchers collected honey samples from around the world, they found that three-quarters of them had a common type of pesticide suspected of play...
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Science Says: Era of monster hurricanes roiling the AtlanticOct 05, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - It's not just this year. The monster hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, Jose and Lee that have raged across the Atlantic are contributing to what appears ...
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Spacewalkers install new hand on station's robot armOct 05, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Spacewalking astronauts gave the International Space Station's big robot arm a new hand Thursday. Commander Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei ...
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Sea critters that hitchhiked across the Pacific on tsunami debris landed in U.S.Sep 28, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - Nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami, washing ashore aliv...
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Feeling old? DNA supports an early evolution of our speciesSep 28, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - A study of DNA from African fossils is providing new evidence that our species is a lot older than scientists had shown. It concludes Homo sapiens had ap...
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Fermilab event offers behind-the-scenes look at its workSep 23, 2017 1:00 am - Fermilab in Batavia Saturday hosted what it called its biggest open house in decades, encouraging everyone to celebrate the lab's 50 years of science. The Community Open...
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NASA's asteroid chaser swings by Earth on way to space rockSep 22, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's asteroid-chasing spacecraft swung by Earth on Friday on its way to a space rock. Launched a year ago, Osiris-Rex passed within 10,711 ...