Articles filed under Science
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UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warningOct 08, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this...
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UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warningOct 07, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this...
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Debut of SpaceX, Boeing crew capsules off until next yearOct 05, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The debut of SpaceX and Boeing crew capsules is off until next year. NASA said this week that the first commercial test fligh...
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Soyuz capsule carrying 3 crew land safely in KazakhstanOct 04, 2018 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian space capsule with three men onboard has safely landed in a barren steppe in Kazakhstan after a six-month mission aboard the International Space ...
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No free lunch for renewables: More wind power would warm U.S.Oct 03, 2018 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Ramping up wind power in America would also dial up the nation's temperatures, a new study out of Harvard found. While wind energy is widely celebrated as e...
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NASA's Pluto explorer adjusts course as next icy world loomsOct 03, 2018 11:00 pm - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The NASA spacecraft that explored Pluto has adjusted course as its next target looms. New Horizons fired its thrusters late Wednesday way out in o...
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Have astronomers found 1st moon outside our solar system?Oct 03, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronomers may have found the first moon outside our solar system, a gas behemoth the size of Neptune. Plenty of planets exist beyond our solar s...
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Remembering Leon Lederman: Scientist, Fermilab leader, education advocateOct 03, 2018 1:00 am - Nobel Prize winner. Political advocate for science education who proposed what would become Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The guy who gave an enduring nickname ...
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe swinging by Venus on way to sunOct 02, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's Parker Solar Probe is swinging by Venus on its unprecedented journey to the sun. Launched in August, the spacecraft gets a gravity ass...
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Scrawny dwarf planet, named Goblin, found well beyond PlutoOct 02, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A scrawny dwarf planet nicknamed the Goblin has been discovered well beyond Pluto. A round frozen world just 186 miles (300 kilometers) acros...