Articles filed under Science
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Global warming to leave us crying in our costlier beerOct 15, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - Add beer to chocolate, coffee and wine as some of life's little pleasures that global warming will make scarcer and costlier, scientists say. Increasing bou...
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Trump may not know what's behind global warming, but scientists doOct 15, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - Despite what President Donald Trump says, scientists have long known that what's warming the planet isn't natural. It's us. They even have the energy balanc...
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Analysis: It's better to be born rich than talentedOct 14, 2018 1:05 am - A revolution in genomics is creeping into economics. It allows us to say something we might have suspected, but could never confirm: money trumps genes. Using one new, g...
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Another NASA space telescope shuts down in orbitOct 12, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Another NASA space telescope has shut down and halted science observations. Less than a week after the Hubble Space Telescope went offline, t...
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Abandon the planet to pollution? What a bad ideaOct 12, 2018 5:00 am - My compliments to the Daily Herald for its recent editorial (Oct. 4), highlighting the report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) asserting t...
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Let's have 'Green Wave' in NovemberOct 12, 2018 5:00 am - Thank you, Daily Herald, for the editorial titled, "Our world is worth trying to save," citing the ridiculous report that the Trump administration is using to support re...
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Study: DNA websites cast broad net for identifying peopleOct 11, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - About 60 percent of the U.S. population with European heritage may be identifiable from their DNA by searching consumer websites, even if they've never m...
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Hurricane Michael headed to Florida is a classic October stormOct 09, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - A classic October storm, Hurricane Michael is quite the contrast to September's Florence. Michael is likely to be stronger, windier and fast-moving when it ...
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Want to decrease carbon? Put a price tag on itOct 09, 2018 5:00 am - A rather unexpected article appeared on the front page of the Sept. 30 Daily Herald, "Trump administration: Global temps will rise 7 degrees by 2100." In a nutshell, a d...
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Hubble Space Telescope sidelined by serious pointing failureOct 08, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The Hubble Space Telescope has been sidelined by a serious pointing problem. NASA announced Monday that one of Hubble's gyroscopes failed las...