Articles filed under Science
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US forecasters: Here comes another hotter than normal summerMay 18, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. forecasters are predicting another warmer than normal summer for most of the country along with wetter weather in a swath of states stretching fro...
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Go west, young pine: US forests shifting with climate changeMay 17, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A warmer, wetter climate is helping push dozens of Eastern U.S. trees to the north and, surprisingly, west, a new study finds. The eastern white pine i...
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Global tailpipe tests vastly underestimate diesel pollutionMay 15, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Pollution from diesel trucks, buses and cars globally is more than 50 percent higher than levels shown in government lab tests, a new study says. That ...
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NASA nixes crew for test flight of new megarocket in 2019May 12, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's new megarocket will launch without astronauts on its test flight, now delayed until 2019 because of technical challenges, the space ag...
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Astronauts ace station's 200th spacewalk, shortened by leakMay 12, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - An equipment water leak shortened Friday's spacewalk by two U.S. astronauts at the International Space Station, but they still managed to rep...
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Scientists in South Africa reveal more on human-like speciesMay 09, 2017 7:00 am - JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A species belonging to the human family tree whose remnants were first discovered in a South African cave in 2013 lived several hundred thousand year...
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Near record amount of April showers drench U.S. last monthMay 08, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - That whole April showers thing went a bit overboard last month in the United States. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday it was ...
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Arlington Heights science tournament focuses on fun and learningMay 06, 2017 1:00 am - Young students from across the suburbs studied mystery powders, built bridges out of straws and fashioned other projects Saturday at the Elementary Illinois Science Olym...
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Rep. Foster, Tom Skilling: Denying climate change like denying smoking dangersMay 06, 2017 1:00 am - A panel featuring WGN meteorologist Tom Skilling and physicist-turned-congressman Bill Foster told a supportive audience Saturday at North Central College that deniers o...
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Shhh. Hear the rustle of grass? Not so much now in US parksMay 04, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The call of the wild is getting harder to hear. Peaceful, natural sounds- bird songs, rushing rivers and rustling grass - are sometimes being drowned o...