Articles filed under Science
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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...
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Earth sweltered to 3rd hottest August, summer on recordSep 18, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Earth just sweated through the third hottest August and summer on record. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday the globe las...
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Farewell Cassini: Saturn spacecraft makes fiery, final diveSep 15, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's Cassini spacecraft disintegrated in the skies above Saturn on Friday in a final, fateful blaze of cosmic glory, following a remarkable...
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The latest: NASA's Cassini spacecraft burns up over SaturnSep 15, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The Latest on the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn: 6:55 a.m. NASA's Cassini spacecraft is no more: It disintegrated in the skies above Saturn early F...
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Cassini spacecraft: 'Magnifying glass' at Saturn until endSep 15, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - For more than a decade, NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn took "a magnifying glass" to the enchanting planet, its moons and rings. Cassini ...
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SpaceX bloopers video: 'How NOT to land an orbital rocket'Sep 14, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - SpaceX has put together a bloopers video showing "How NOT to land an orbital rocket booster." Set to John Philip Sousa's rousing march "The L...