Articles filed under Science
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'Vampire' remains found about 30 years ago; now DNA is telling his storyJul 31, 2019 1:00 am - He had been in his grave so long that when his family dug him up to burn his heart, the organ had decomposed and was not there. Desperate to stop him from stalking them,...
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'This was a true shock': Scientists almost didn't detect approach of 'city-killer asteroid'Jul 29, 2019 1:00 am - Alan Duffy was confused. On Thursday, the astronomer's phone was suddenly flooded with calls from reporters wanting to know about a large asteroid that had just whizzed ...
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SpaceX launch sends 3D bioprinter, supplies to space stationJul 25, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) - A space capsule carrying a 3D printer to make human tissue and about 5,000 pounds of other experiments and supplies is on its way to the I...
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Weather postpones SpaceX launch of supplies to space stationJul 24, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) - Storm clouds forced SpaceX to postpone its Wednesday launch of a capsule carrying supplies to the International Space Station. The private...
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Eastern U.S. cities spewing more methane into air than thoughtJul 22, 2019 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - Older U.S. east coast cities are leaking nine times as much natural gas into the air - from homes or pipes heading into houses - than the federal government...
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The Latest: Pence marks Apollo 11 anniversary at launch siteJul 21, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The Latest on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing (all times local): 2 p.m. Vice President Mike Pence is marking the 50th anni...
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Moon back in NASA's court 50 years after 1st lunar landingJul 21, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Fifty years after humanity's first lunar footsteps, the moon is back in NASA's court. The White House wants U.S. astronauts on the moon pront...
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Nation marks 50 years after Apollo 11's 'giant leap' on moonJul 20, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A moonstruck nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's "giant leap" by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at parties, races, ball gam...
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. Tet and My Lai. Amid turmoil, moon landing united a nation.Jul 20, 2019 5:00 am - Still reeling from the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the violent Democratic convention in Chicago, racial struggles, riots, Cold W...
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'Space exploration is hard. We make it look easy,' says longtime NASA director from SchaumburgJul 20, 2019 5:00 am - With her family having just moved to Schaumburg in the summer of 1969, 3½-year-old Cathy Larson watched the moon landing on a black-and-white television in the new famil...