Articles filed under Science
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100-year-old Illinois scientist launched trans fat battle decades agoJun 27, 2015 5:12 am - No one was more pleased by the Food and Drug Administration's recent decision to eliminate artificial trans fats from the U.S. food supply than Fred Kummerow, a 100-year...
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FDA panel backs female libido pillJun 04, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Government health experts are backing the approval of an experimental drug intended to boost the female sex drive, but stress that it should carry safety re...
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Data shows no stopping nor slowing of global warmingJun 04, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Global warming has not stopped or even slowed in the past 18 years, according to a new federal study that rebuts doubters who've claimed that that heating t...
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Officials: At least 51 labs got possibly live anthraxJun 03, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Pentagon disclosed Wednesday that it inadvertently shipped possibly live anthrax to at least 51 laboratories across the U.S. and in three foreign countr...
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New $60 million science center key to North Central College's futureMay 18, 2015 5:30 am - North Central College has broken ground on a project that officials say will play a major role in the Naperville school's continued success: a $60 million science center...
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Pentagon sees value in robot warriorsMay 17, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - It's 6-foot-2, with laser eyes and vise-grip hands. It can walk over a mess of jagged cinder blocks, cut a hole in a wall, even drive a car. And soon, Leo, ...
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Liberia cautiously marks end of Ebola after 4,700 deathsMay 09, 2015 1:00 am - MONROVIA, Liberia - On the day Mercy Kennedy lost her mother to Ebola, it was hard to imagine a time when Liberia would be free from one of the world's deadliest viruses...
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Scientist asks Illinois residents to help track cicada swarmMay 05, 2015 1:00 am - MAKANDA - A researcher from the University of Connecticut is asking southern Illinois residents to help document the 13-year swarm of cicadas that's expected to hit late...
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Scientists find the oldest relative of modern birdsMay 05, 2015 1:00 am - A newly discovered species is now our oldest-known example of Ornithuromorpha, the evolutionary branch that hosts all living birds. This pushes back the origin of modern...
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Astronomers find farthest galaxyMay 05, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Astronomers have discovered a baby blue galaxy that is farther away in distance and time than any galaxy ever seen. It's among the universe's first generati...