Articles filed under Science
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Kepler telescope dead after finding thousands of worldsOct 30, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. Officials announced the Kepler ...
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Mountain birds on 'escalator to extinction' as planet warmsOct 29, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A meticulous re-creation of a 3-decade-old study of birds on a mountainside in Peru has given scientists a rare chance to prove how the changing climat...
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How old is cacao? New research pushes back dateOct 29, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK - New research strengthens the case that people used the chocolate ingredient cacao in South America 5,400 years ago, underscoring the seed's radical transforma...
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NASA spacecraft sets record for closest approach to sunOct 29, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's Parker Solar Probe is now closer to the sun than any spacecraft has ever gotten. Parker on Monday surpassed the record of 26.6 million...
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Hubble Space Telescope working again after 3-week shutdownOct 29, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The Hubble Space Telescope is studying the cosmos once again after a three-week shutdown. NASA says the orbiting observatory resumed scientif...
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China building boom uncovers buried dinosaurs, makes a starOct 25, 2018 7:00 am - YANJI, China - At the end of a street of newly built high-rises in the northern Chinese city of Yanji stands an exposed cliff face, where paleontologists scrape away 100...
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Government ranks 18 U.S. volcanoes as 'very high threat'Oct 24, 2018 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Government scientists have classified 18 U.S. volcanoes as "very high threat" because of what's been happening inside them and how close they are to people....
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Report: Efforts to suck carbon from air must be ramped upOct 24, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation needs to ramp up efforts to suck heat-trapping gases out of the air to fight climate change, a new U.S. report said. The report Wednesday fr...
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Wet and mild: Warm winter predicted for much of the U.S.Oct 18, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - Winter looks wet and especially mild for much of the country, thanks to a weak El Nino brewing, U.S. meteorologists said. The National Weather Service on Th...
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How Otto Engineering in Carpentersville is making NASA's Mars mission possibleOct 18, 2018 1:00 am - When Navy Capt. Scott Altman joined NASA in 1995, he thought he would eventually be the first human on Mars. Though he never made it that far, the former astronaut compl...