Articles filed under Science
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NASA's Scott Kelly breaks US record for most days in spaceOct 16, 2015 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Waking up hundreds of miles above the Himalayas, astronaut Scott Kelly broke the U.S. record Friday for the most time spent in space with 383 days. Kel...
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NOAA: Thanks to El Nino, the US looks pretty wet this winterOct 15, 2015 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - El Nino this winter will leave a big wet but not necessarily snowy footprint on much of the United States, including parched California, forecasters sa...
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Fossil teeth show earliest sign of people in southern AsiaOct 14, 2015 7:00 am - NEW YORK - Dozens of fossil human teeth from a cave in China show that people lived in southern Asia more than 80,000 years ago, researchers report. Before this, the ear...
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Learn about bats in Lake CountyOct 12, 2015 1:00 am - "Going Batty in Lake County" is the topic of the next Green Drinks Libertyville meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, at Pizzeria DeVille, 404 N. Milwaukee Ave., Libert...
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Everyday science at CLCOct 12, 2015 1:00 am - "Materials Science: The Chemistry of Everyday Stuff," an evening of demonstrations designed for high-school and college students, will be at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 5,...
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Gun violence researchers becoming an endangered speciesOct 11, 2015 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Amid the bloodbaths of 21st-century America, you might think that there would be a lot of research into the causes of gun violence, and which policies work be...
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Study: Eurasian farmers migrated to Africa 3,000 years agoOct 08, 2015 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Scientists say they have extracted ancient DNA from the skull of a man buried in the highlands of Ethiopia 4,500 years ago that supports the theory that Eu...
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Scientists: Major coral bleaching crisis spreads worldwideOct 08, 2015 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The bleaching of colorful coral is spreading into a worldwide, devastating crisis, scientists say, and they predict it will likely get worse. Triggered...
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Blue sky and red ice at Pluto, NASA spacecraft discoversOct 08, 2015 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The sky over Pluto may not be sunny but it's undoubtedly blue. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft discovered Pluto's blue sky during the historic...
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Korean energy economist to head UN climate science panelOct 06, 2015 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A South Korean professor of climate change economics will lead the Nobel Prize-winning group of climate scientists who keep track of global warming. Ho...