Articles filed under Science
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SpaceX launches hefty rocket with 24 satellites, experimentsJun 25, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - SpaceX launched its heftiest rocket with 24 research satellites Tuesday, a middle-of-the-night rideshare featuring a deep space atomic clock,...
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Restaurants could be 1st to get genetically modified salmonJun 21, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Inside an Indiana aquafarming complex, thousands of salmon eggs genetically modified to grow faster than normal are hatching into tiny fish. After growin...
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AP-NORC poll: Asteroid watch more urgent than Mars tripJun 20, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Americans prefer a space program that focuses on potential asteroid impacts, scientific research and using robots to explore the cosmos over ...
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Lost wallet? More cash means you're likelier to get it backJun 20, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - People are more likely to return a lost wallet if it contains money - and the more cash, the better. That's the surprising conclusion from researchers wh...
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Survey sees biggest U.S. honeybee winter die-off yetJun 19, 2019 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - Winter hit U.S. honeybees hard with the highest loss rate yet, an annual survey of beekeepers showed. The annual nationwide survey by the Bee Informed Partn...
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Old spy images reveal Himalayan glaciers are melting fastJun 19, 2019 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Cold War era spy satellite images are showing scientists that glaciers on the Himalayas are now melting about twice as fast as they used to. The Asian ...
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U.S. air quality is slipping after years of improvementJun 18, 2019 7:00 am - After decades of improvement, America's air may not be getting any cleaner. Over the last two years the nation had more polluted air days than just a few years earlier, ...
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Scientists take a peek behind those sad puppy dog eyesJun 17, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK - What's behind those hard-to-resist puppy dog eyes? New research suggests that over thousands of years of dog domestication, people preferred pups that could p...
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Why crowded meetings and conference rooms make you so, so sleepyJun 16, 2019 6:00 am - We've all been there: You're an hour into a meeting in a crowded conference room. The air is thick with hot breath and getting thicker by the minute. You're trying to pa...
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Signs of ritual pot smoking found in ancient Chinese gravesJun 12, 2019 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest direct evidence of people smoking marijuana from a 2,500-year-old graveyard in western China. In a complex o...