Articles filed under Science
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Sea critters that hitchhiked across the Pacific on tsunami debris landed in U.S.Sep 28, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - Nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami, washing ashore aliv...
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Feeling old? DNA supports an early evolution of our speciesSep 28, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - A study of DNA from African fossils is providing new evidence that our species is a lot older than scientists had shown. It concludes Homo sapiens had ap...
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Fermilab event offers behind-the-scenes look at its workSep 23, 2017 1:00 am - Fermilab in Batavia Saturday hosted what it called its biggest open house in decades, encouraging everyone to celebrate the lab's 50 years of science. The Community Open...
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NASA's asteroid chaser swings by Earth on way to space rockSep 22, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's asteroid-chasing spacecraft swung by Earth on Friday on its way to a space rock. Launched a year ago, Osiris-Rex passed within 10,711 ...
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Babies try harder when they see you sweat, research showsSep 21, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Especially if a baby is watching. Children around 15 months old can become more persistent in pursuing a g...
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Puerto Rican astronaut gets double dose of hurricanesSep 20, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space station astronaut Joe Acaba is getting a double dose of hurricanes - even in orbit. Harvey flooded his home in Houston last month. Now ...
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Soft soil makes Mexico City shake like it was built on jellySep 20, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The soft soil that lines the ancient lake bed that Mexico City is built on amplified the shaking from Tuesday's earthquake and increased its destructiv...
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Huge sea turtles slowly coming back from brink of extinctionSep 20, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Sea turtles are lumbering back from the brink of extinction, a new study says. Scientists found more populations of the large turtles improving than de...
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Cloudy, cool August restrains melt of Arctic sea iceSep 19, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Arctic sea ice this summer dropped to its eighth lowest level on record, new federal data show. That's far below average, but considerably above the re...
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Why some hurricanes linger while other storms die quicklySep 18, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - This hurricane season is showing how wild and varied storms' life cycles can be. Most storms seem to be tracked for days while others appear to pop out of n...