Articles filed under Science
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Europe ready to land 1st probe on streaking cometNov 11, 2014 12:01 am - BERLIN - How do you land a spacecraft on a comet that is streaking by at 41,000 mph? That's a problem scientists have been grappling with for more than a decade as they ...
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Back to Antarctica, a little delayed, for NIU scientistsNov 10, 2014 4:00 am - Two days. Two stinkin' days. If federal officials had been able to resolve their budget conflict and end the 2013 partial government shutdown two days earlier, Reed Sche...
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SpaceShipTwo pilot's survival 'no minor miracle'Nov 07, 2014 12:01 am - MOJAVE, Calif. - There were no ejection seats and no easy ways out of SpaceShipTwo if disaster struck. As the doomed flight rocketed past the speed of sound some eight ...
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Elk Grove-based American Academy of Pediatrics gets federal grantNov 07, 2014 12:01 am - The American Academy of Pediatrics in Elk Grove Village has received a federal grant to support evidence-based childhood obesity treatment and improve access and systems...
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NASA: Comet showered Mars sky with meteorsNov 07, 2014 12:01 am - WASHINGTON - A pristine distant comet created a once-in-8-million-year fireworks show above Mars last month. But no one got to see it live. New NASA data from satellites...
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Nurse who survived Ebola reunited with dogNov 01, 2014 1:01 am - DALLAS - A Dallas nurse who recovered from Ebola has been reunited with her dog named Bentley, who has been quarantined since she fell ill. Nina Pham and the King Charl...
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Virgin Galactic spaceship crashesOct 31, 2014 1:01 am - MOJAVE, Calif. - A Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket exploded Friday after taking off on a test flight, killing one person aboard and seriously injuring another while...
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Ebola nurse first quarantine, not happyOct 25, 2014 1:01 am - NEW YORK - A nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone is the first test case of quarantine policies now in effect in three states over heightened fears the deadl...
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Constable: Teens eclipse expectations for observatoryOct 21, 2014 5:30 am - Spying the rings of Saturn through the main telescope certainly inspires viewers, but the appreciation for the awesomeness of our galaxy begins on the ground outside Har...
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Top-secret space plane lands on California coastOct 17, 2014 1:01 am - VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A top-secret space plane landed Friday at an Air Force base on the Southern California coast. The plane spent nearly two years circli...