Articles filed under Science
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Virgin Galactic spaceship makes successful flightJan 10, 2014 4:26 pm - MOJAVE, Calif. — Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo has made its third rocket-powered supersonic flight in the Mojave Desert, soaring to a record 71,000 feet. The company sa...
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Mars rover photographs featured at SmithsonianJan 07, 2014 1:31 pm - WASHINGTON — Ten years after NASA landed two rovers on Mars for a 90-day mission, one is still exploring, and the project has generated hundreds of thousands of images f...
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Long shots: Galaxies from 13.2 billion years agoJan 07, 2014 1:27 pm - WASHINGTON — The Hubble Space Telescope has captured snapshots of never-before seen galaxies far, far away. Try 13.2 billion years ago. That’s so long ago and far away ...
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U.S. war on smoking started 50 years agoJan 04, 2014 1:48 pm - ATLANTA — Fifty years ago, ashtrays seemed to be on every table and desk. Athletes and even Fred Flintstone endorsed cigarettes in TV commercials. Smoke hung in the air ...
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New study sheds light on meat, mummies in ancient tombsDec 29, 2013 5:00 am - So you’ve gone through all the trouble of mummifying a loved one. You’ve hired embalmers to remove her organs, treat her body with a precise mixture of oils and balms, a...
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Otters make major comeback in IllinoisDec 25, 2013 2:58 pm - DANVILLE, Ill. — As a sixth grader in 1997, Josh Gabehart opened one of the pens that held 15 river otters being released at Kennekuk County Park in an effort to reintro...
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Astronauts complete rare Christmas Eve spacewalkDec 24, 2013 7:38 pm - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space station astronauts repaired a crippled cooling system during a rare Christmas Eve spacewalk Tuesday, braving a “mini blizzard” of noxious am...
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University to test pot for contaminantsDec 24, 2013 7:18 pm - WEST HAVEN, Conn. — The microscope at the University of New Haven, set at 10-times magnification, shows a marijuana leaf covered with dozens of tiny bumps. It’s mold, an...
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NASA astronauts tackle urgent spacewalking repairsDec 21, 2013 10:49 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts removed an old space station pump Saturday, sailing through the first of a series of urgent repair spacewalks to revive a crippled cool...
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Feds begin killing barred owls to help spotted owlDec 20, 2013 3:41 pm - GRANTS PASS, Ore. — An experiment to see if killing invasive barred owls will help the threatened northern spotted owl reverse its decline toward extinction is underway ...