Articles filed under Science
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Pluto-bound spacecraft carrying ashes of Illinois astronomerJul 11, 2015 1:00 am - Associated Press STREATOR, Ill. - The NASA spacecraft set to complete a flyby of Pluto on Tuesday is carrying some of the ashes of the Illinois astronomer who discovered...
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Hawaii limits access to Mauna Kea amid telescope protestsJul 11, 2015 1:00 am - Associated Press HONOLULU - Hawaii officials have voted to impose an emergency rule to restrict access to Mauna Kea after protesters blocked construction of a giant tele...
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Why Fermilab could blast up campus, shake up Batavia neighborsJul 07, 2015 5:30 am - At least 300 billion neutrinos passed through one of your fingernails in the time it took you to read this sentence. And while they passed through you, your office door...
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Salvagers on hunt in North Central College housesJul 07, 2015 1:00 am - Brian Bock of Naperville was envisioning the possibilities Tuesday as he tore down wood trim and ripped out windows from an old house on the North Central College campus...
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Now that we can edit our genome, where do we go?Jul 06, 2015 6:00 am - Every human genome contains the blueprints for building a person, a library of roughly 20,000 genes that encode everything from eye color to cancer risk. Imagine if tho...
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Inaction on climate change would cost billions, major EPA study findsJul 05, 2015 6:32 am - A global agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions would prevent nearly 70,000 premature American deaths annually by the end of the century while sparing the country hu...
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A first: New guidelines back device for treating strokesJul 04, 2015 7:00 am - Many stroke patients have a new treatment option - if they seek help fast enough to get it. New guidelines endorse using a removable stent to open clogged arteries causi...
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Pope bringing environmental message to South AmericaJul 04, 2015 1:00 am - AGUARAGUE NATIONAL PARK, Bolivia - In the vine-entangled forests of the Aguarague National Park, crude that seeped for decades out of abandoned wellheads saturates the s...
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Solar-powered plane lands in Hawaii, sets new markJul 03, 2015 1:00 am - KAPOLEI, Hawaii - A plane powered by the sun's rays landed in Hawaii Friday after a record-breaking five-day journey across the Pacific Ocean from Japan. Pilot Andre Bor...
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100-year-old Illinois scientist launched trans fat battle decades agoJun 27, 2015 5:12 am - No one was more pleased by the Food and Drug Administration's recent decision to eliminate artificial trans fats from the U.S. food supply than Fred Kummerow, a 100-year...