Articles filed under Science
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The Big Sneeze: Climate change to make pollen season nastierMar 15, 2022 7:00 am - Climate change has already made allergy season longer and pollen counts higher, but you ain't sneezed nothing yet. Climate scientists at the University of Michigan look...
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US astronaut to ride Russian spacecraft home during tensionsMar 14, 2022 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei has made it through nearly a year in space, but faces what could be his trickiest assignment yet: riding a Russ...
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Octopus ancestors lived before era of dinosaurs, study showsMar 08, 2022 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have found the oldest known ancestor of octopuses '“ an approximately 330 million-year-old fossil unearthed in Montana. The researchers con...
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Half of US adults exposed to harmful lead levels as kidsMar 07, 2022 6:00 am - Over 170 million U.S.-born people who were adults in 2015 were exposed to harmful levels of lead as children, a new study estimates. Researchers used blood-lead level, c...
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Gene-edited beef cattle get regulatory clearance in USMar 07, 2022 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. regulators on Monday cleared the way for the sale of beef from gene-edited cattle in coming years after the Food and Drug Administration concluded t...
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Space junk on 5,800-mph collision course with moonMar 02, 2022 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater that could fit several semitractor-trailers. ...
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Weather satellite rockets to orbit to monitor US WestMar 01, 2022 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - America's newest weather satellite blasted off Tuesday to improve wildfire and flood forecasting across the western half of the country. It's...
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Constable: Insect Fear Film Festival features 'King of Sting'Feb 22, 2022 4:30 am - For those of us who got the first vaccine shot, the second vaccine shot, the flu shot, the booster shot and all those other shots throughout our life, we owe a bit of gr...
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Nearly half of US bald eagles suffer lead poisoningFeb 17, 2022 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - America's national bird is more beleaguered than previously believed, with nearly half of bald eagles tested across the U.S. showing signs of chronic l...
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US could see a century's worth of sea rise in just 30 yearsFeb 15, 2022 6:00 am - America's coastline will see sea levels rise in the next 30 years by as much as they did in the entire 20th century, with major Eastern cities hit regularly with costly ...