Articles filed under Science
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Spacewalking astronauts pull off urgent station repairsMay 23, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Spacewalking astronauts completed urgent repairs at the International Space Station on Tuesday, replacing equipment that failed three days ea...
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Science Says: Whale of a mystery solved? How they got so bigMay 23, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists think they have answered a whale of a mystery: How the ocean creatures got so huge so quickly. A few million years ago, the largest whales, ...
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After 9 months in space, mouse sperm yield healthy miceMay 22, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - After nine months in space, mouse sperm has yielded healthy mice, Japanese scientists reported Monday. The freeze-dried sperm samples were la...
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NASA orders up urgent spacewalking repairs at space stationMay 22, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA has ordered up urgent spacewalking repairs at the International Space Station. On Tuesday, two astronauts will venture out to replace a ...
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US forecasters: Here comes another hotter than normal summerMay 18, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. forecasters are predicting another warmer than normal summer for most of the country along with wetter weather in a swath of states stretching fro...
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Go west, young pine: US forests shifting with climate changeMay 17, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A warmer, wetter climate is helping push dozens of Eastern U.S. trees to the north and, surprisingly, west, a new study finds. The eastern white pine i...
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Global tailpipe tests vastly underestimate diesel pollutionMay 15, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Pollution from diesel trucks, buses and cars globally is more than 50 percent higher than levels shown in government lab tests, a new study says. That ...
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NASA nixes crew for test flight of new megarocket in 2019May 12, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's new megarocket will launch without astronauts on its test flight, now delayed until 2019 because of technical challenges, the space ag...
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Astronauts ace station's 200th spacewalk, shortened by leakMay 12, 2017 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - An equipment water leak shortened Friday's spacewalk by two U.S. astronauts at the International Space Station, but they still managed to rep...
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Scientists in South Africa reveal more on human-like speciesMay 09, 2017 7:00 am - JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A species belonging to the human family tree whose remnants were first discovered in a South African cave in 2013 lived several hundred thousand year...