Articles filed under Science
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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...
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Oldest fossils on Earth? New look finds might just be rocksOct 17, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - What were billed as the oldest fossils on Earth may just be some rocks, according to a new study. Two years ago, a team of Australian scientists found ...
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Illinois is now in 'Tornado Alley,' study findsOct 17, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Over the past few decades tornadoes have been shifting - decreasing in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas but spinning up more in states along the Mississippi ...
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NASA astronaut describes close call following failed launchOct 16, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The NASA astronaut who survived last week's failed launch and emergency landing knew he needed to stay calm. Air Force Col. Nick Hague on Tue...
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NASA X-ray Space Telescope back online after brief shutdownOct 15, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - One of NASA's space telescopes is back in business after a two-day shutdown. NASA said Monday that the Chandra X-ray Observatory came back on...
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Global warming to leave us crying in our costlier beerOct 15, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - Add beer to chocolate, coffee and wine as some of life's little pleasures that global warming will make scarcer and costlier, scientists say. Increasing bou...
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Trump may not know what's behind global warming, but scientists doOct 15, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - Despite what President Donald Trump says, scientists have long known that what's warming the planet isn't natural. It's us. They even have the energy balanc...
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Analysis: It's better to be born rich than talentedOct 14, 2018 1:05 am - A revolution in genomics is creeping into economics. It allows us to say something we might have suspected, but could never confirm: money trumps genes. Using one new, g...
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Another NASA space telescope shuts down in orbitOct 12, 2018 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Another NASA space telescope has shut down and halted science observations. Less than a week after the Hubble Space Telescope went offline, t...