Articles filed under Science
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Fermilab director resigns as new contractor takes over lab in BataviaJan 13, 2025 4:00 pm - Fermilab’s director has stepped down as the lab in Batavia begins operating under a new contract.
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4 suburban students among 300 Regeneron science scholarsJan 08, 2025 12:19 pm - Four suburban students are among 300 high school seniors named as scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2025, the nation’s oldest science and math competition.
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Why more frequent cold blasts could be coming from global warmingJan 07, 2025 7:28 am - Frigid air that normally stays trapped in the Arctic has escaped, plunging deep into the United States for an extended visit that is expected to provoke teeth-chattering but not be record-shattering.
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Here's your 2025 guide to the night sky and other celestial wow momentsJan 03, 2025 12:46 pm - The new year will bring a pair of lunar eclipses, but don’t expect any sun-disappearing acts like the one that mesmerized North America last spring.
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Treatment shows promise for Lake County’s Blanding’s turtlesNov 18, 2024 3:50 pm - Ecologists from the Lake County Forest Preserves are testing an experimental treatment to protect Blanding’s turtles from a dangerous, potentially fatal fungal disease.
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How Argonne, Fermilab will use federal energy conservation grantsNov 11, 2024 1:05 pm - Argonne, a research powerhouse in DuPage County, plans to make a 1980s-era building more energy efficient and reduce its carbon footprint with the help of federal dollars. The U.S. Department of Energy last month announced nearly $150 million in funding for dozens of energy conservation and clean energy projects at federal facilities, including Argonne and Fermilab.
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Al Gore honors climate reality leader Donald Viecelli with Alfredo Sirkis Memorial Green Ring AwardOct 25, 2024 9:27 pm - Former U.S. Vice President and founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, Al Gore, presented the Alfredo Sirkis Memorial Green Ring Award to Climate Reality L...
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NASA spacecraft rockets toward Jupiter’s moon Europa in search of the right conditions for lifeOct 14, 2024 2:17 pm - A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life.
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After the northern lights show, what’s next in the night sky? Comets, supermoon and meteor showersOct 11, 2024 4:14 pm - The aurora borealis made a special appearance in the night skies over much of the suburbs late Thursday, and there’s a slim chance they’ll be back again Friday.
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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to 3 scientists for work on proteins, building blocks of lifeOct 09, 2024 7:08 am - The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to three scientists for their breakthrough work predicting and even designing the structure of proteins, the building blocks of life.