Articles filed under Science
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Apollo 12 astronaut Richard Gordon, who circled moon, diesNov 07, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Apollo 12 astronaut Richard "Dick" F. Gordon Jr., one of a dozen men who flew around the moon but didn't land there, has died, NASA said. He was 88. Go...
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Earth's ozone hole shrivels to smallest since 1988Nov 02, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The ozone hole over Antarctica shrank to its smallest peak since 1988, NASA said Thursday. The huge hole in Earth's protective ozone layer reached its ...
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Science Says: Jack Frost nipping at your nose ever laterOct 27, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Winter is coming ... later. And it's leaving ever earlier. Across the United States, the year's first freeze has been arriving further and further into...
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Misplaced monarchs: Clusters of butterflies stuck up northOct 26, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - Monarch butterflies, those delicate symbols of spring and summer, should mostly be in Texas by now, winging their way to Mexico for the winter. But Darlene ...
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Waaah: Crying babies push same 'buttons' in mothers' brainsOct 23, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK - Crying babies push the same "buttons" in their mothers' brains no matter what their culture, a new study suggests. The research found that mothers in 11 count...
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Not so cold duck? Man keeps looking for bird thought extinctOct 23, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Hope is the thing with feathers, poet Emily Dickinson wrote. For Richard Thorns, the feathers are pink. Thorns' hope? To prove that a colorful duck is ...
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Spacewalking astronaut copes with frayed tether, bad jetpackOct 20, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A spacewalking astronaut successfully replaced a blurry camera outside the International Space Station on Friday, but had to contend with a b...
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The Latest: Spacewalker's jetpack bad; ordered back insideOct 20, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The Latest on a spacewalk by two NASA astronauts (all times local): 2:15 p.m. Spacewalking astronauts are back inside the International Space...
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Another warm winter forecast for swath of U.S.Oct 19, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - Much of the U.S. should expect another warm winter, but not quite as toasty as the last two years, forecasters said. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad...
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You should be able to see Uranus tonightOct 19, 2017 1:00 am - Clear skies, planetary alignment and just a sliver of moon make tonight a great time to see Uranus, to the delight of astronomers and the fifth-grader in each of us. "...