Articles filed under Science
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Lab revokes honors for controversial DNA scientist WatsonJan 11, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning DNA scientist who lost his job in 2007 for expressing racist views, was stripped of several honorary titles Friday ...
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Medieval woman's hidden art career revealed by blue teethJan 09, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - About 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record of her life survived, and no histori...
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Hubble Space Telescope's premier camera shuts downJan 09, 2019 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The Hubble Space Telescope's premier camera has shut down because of a hardware problem. NASA said the camera stopped working Tuesday. Hubble...
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Asteroid-circling spacecraft grabs cool snapshot of homeJan 08, 2019 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - An asteroid-circling spacecraft has captured a cool snapshot of home. NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft took the picture days before going into or...
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Scientists show off space snowman, Ultima Thule, in 3DJan 03, 2019 6:00 am - LAUREL, Md. (AP) - The newly visited space snowman - the most distant object ever explored - is now appearing in 3D. At a news conference Thursday, scientists and others...
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Side of the moon you can't see 'is not dark, it's just far'Jan 03, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite the name of Pink Floyd's best-selling album, the side of the moon you can't see isn't always dark. But it is far. So scientists call the area w...
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NASA: Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowmanJan 03, 2019 6:00 am - LAUREL, Md. (AP) - A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicti...
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Spacecraft opens new year with flyby on solar system's edgeJan 01, 2019 6:00 am - LAUREL, Md. (AP) - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft pulled off the most distant exploration of another world Tuesday, skimming past a tiny, icy object 4 billion miles from...
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Scientists say NASA spacecraft has survived its most distant encounter with another worldJan 01, 2019 6:00 am - LAUREL, Maryland (AP) - Scientists say NASA spacecraft has survived its most distant encounter with another world. ...
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The Latest: NASA spacecraft dashes by world beyond PlutoJan 01, 2019 6:00 am - LAUREL, Md. (AP) - The Latest on NASA's New Horizons' New Year rendezvous (all times local): 10: 40 a.m. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has survived humanity's most dist...