Articles filed under Science
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Fires set stage for irreversible forest losses in AustraliaJan 18, 2020 6:00 am - Australia's forests are burning at a rate unmatched in modern times and scientists say the landscape is being permanently altered as a warming climate brings profound ch...
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Planes stay in the air thanks to combination of lift and thrustJan 16, 2020 5:00 am - Who hasn't looked at an 800,000-pound passenger jet soaring through the sky and wondered how it could possibly stay up there? Ten-year-old Lucas took a break from munch...
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Astronaut completes spacewalk without helmet camera, lightsJan 15, 2020 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Spacewalking astronauts had to make do with fewer lights and camera views from one helmet Wednesday while performing critical battery work ou...
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Fever chart: Earth had its hottest decade on record in 2010sJan 15, 2020 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record, two U.S. agencies reported W...
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Trump proposes sweeping rollback of environmental oversightJan 09, 2020 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - In a dramatic rollback of environmental oversight, President Donald Trump took action Thursday to clear the way and speed up development of a wide range of ...
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Space-baked cookies, 'mighty' mice back on Earth via SpaceXJan 07, 2020 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The first batch of space-baked cookies is back on Earth, along with muscle-bound "mighty" mice and other space station experiments. SpaceX provid...
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Titanic wave of star-forming gases found in Milky WayJan 07, 2020 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronomers have discovered a titanic wave of star-forming gases practically right under our noses in the Milky Way. Harvard University scie...
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Boeing capsule returns to Earth after aborted space missionDec 22, 2019 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico desert Sunday after an aborted flight to the International Space Station that could h...
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Boeing crew capsule returning to Earth after aborted flightDec 21, 2019 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Boeing aimed to bring its Starliner crew capsule back to Earth on Sunday to end its first test flight, a mission cut short by an improperly s...
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Boeing capsule launches to wrong orbit, skips space stationDec 20, 2019 6:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Boeing's new Starliner capsule ended up in the wrong orbit after lifting off on its first test flight Friday, a blow to the company's effort ...