Articles filed under Science
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Asteroids are smacking Earth twice as often as beforeJan 17, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Giant rocks from space are falling from the sky more than they used to, but don't worry. For the past 290 million years, large asteroids have been cras...
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Robot recreates the walk of a 290-million-year-old creatureJan 16, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - How did the earliest land animals move? Scientists have used a nearly 300-million-year old fossil skeleton and preserved ancient footprints to create a...
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Lights, camera, action! Tumbling space snowman in film debutJan 15, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The tumbling space snowman is making its out-of-this-world film premiere. Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission on Tuesday released the first sti...
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Antarctica is losing ice 6 times faster today than in 1980sJan 14, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Antarctica is melting more than six times faster than it did in the 1980s, a new study shows. Scientists used aerial photographs, satellite measurement...
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How your at-home DNA test results could solve cold casesJan 12, 2019 5:00 am - The results seem almost miraculous: an arrest in the killing of a young girl in 1988 after 30 years of searching. The murder of a young couple in 1987, solved in a matte...
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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...