Articles filed under Science
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'Premier science facility' progressing at North CentralMar 14, 2016 1:00 am - The entire steel skeleton is in place for "the premier multidisciplinary science facility in the Midwest" at North Central College in Naperville. President Troy Hammond ...
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Year-in-space astronaut hangs up his spacesuit, retiresMar 11, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - After spending nearly a year in space, astronaut Scott Kelly is hanging up his spacesuit. NASA announced Kelly's retirement on Friday, less than two we...
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Panel: Finding climate fingerprints in wild weather is validMar 11, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Climate science has progressed so much that experts can accurately detect global warming's fingerprints on certain extreme weather events, such as a he...
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NASA salvages Mars mission that should have launched by nowMar 09, 2016 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's next Mars mission is still alive. Instead of scrapping the grounded Mars InSight spacecraft, the space agency announced Wednesday it's...
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Feds: Still hope for El Nino drenching Southern CaliforniaMar 09, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Even though Southern California hasn't gotten the drought-busting rainy windfall some might have expected from El Nino, federal scientists hold out hop...
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Winter warmer-land: U.S. breaks record for hottest winterMar 08, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON - Federal meteorologists say the winter that has just ended was the hottest in U.S. records, thanks to the combination of El Nino and man-made global warming....
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Revamped satellite data shows no pause in global warmingMar 04, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Climate change doubters may have lost one of their key talking points: a particular satellite temperature dataset that had seemed to show no warming fo...
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System may forecast tornadoes 2 to 3 weeks in advanceMar 04, 2016 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers say they've come up with a way to predict the likelihood of tornadoes two or three weeks in advance - a step toward better warnings of stor...
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1-year spaceman: Tired, joints ache, can't sink basketballMar 04, 2016 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Fresh from a year in space, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly said Friday his muscles and joints ache. His skin is so sensitive it burns when he sit...
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SpaceX launches satellite, but fails to land rocket on bargeMar 04, 2016 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - SpaceX has another launch under its belt, but not another rocket landing. The leftover first-stage booster hit the floating platform hard Fri...