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Conspiracy theorists flock to bird flu, spreading falsehoods
Brad Moline, a fourth-generation Iowa turkey farmer, saw this happen before. In 2015, a virulent avian flu outbreak nearly wiped out his flock.Barns once filled with chattering birds were suddenly silent. Employees were anguished by having to kill sickened animals. The family business, started in 1924, was at serious risk.
His business recovered, but now the virus is back, again imperiling the nation's poultry farms. And this time, there's another pernicious force at work: a potent wave of misinformation that claims the bird flu isn't real.
"You just want to... Read More
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from California
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) ??" A SpaceX rocket carried 53 satellites for the Starlink internet constellation into orbit Friday after blasting off from California.The Falcon 9 booster lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 3:07 p.m., and minutes later the first stage landed on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean while the second stage continued toward low Earth orbit.
SpaceX later tweeted that the satellites were successfully deployed.
Starlink is a space-based system that SpaceX has been building for years to bring internet access to... Read More
Menaced by flames, nuclear lab peers into future of wildfire
LOS ALAMOS N.M. (AP) ??" Public schools were closed and evacuation bags packed this week as a stubborn wildfire crept within a few miles of the city of Los Alamos and its companion U.S. national security lab ??" where assessing apocalyptic threats is a specialty and wildland fire is a beguiling equation.People preparing to evacuate included a team of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory who are tapping supercomputers to peer into the future of wildfires in the American West, where climate change and an enduring drought are fanning the frequency and intensity of forest and... Read More
Bracing for her future: Baby giraffe fitted with orthotic
ESCONDIDO, Calif. (AP) ??" Over the past three decades Ara Mirzaian has fitted braces for everyone from Paralympians to children with scoliosis. But Msituni was a patient like none other ??" a newborn giraffe.The calf was born Feb. 1 at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, north of San Diego, with her front limb bending the wrong way. Safari park staff feared she could die if they didn't immediately correct the condition, which could prevent her from nursing and walking around the habitat.
But they had no experience with fitting a baby giraffe in a brace. That... Read More
Michigan profs push 'pee for peonies' urine diversion plan
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) ??" A pair of University of Michigan researchers are putting the "pee" in peony.Rather, they're putting pee ON peonies.
Environmental engineering professors Nancy Love and Krista Wigginton are regular visitors to the Ann Arbor school's Nichols Arboretum, where they have been applying urine-based fertilizer to the heirloom peony beds ahead of the flowers' annual spring bloom.
It's all part of an effort to educate the public about their research showing that applying fertilizer derived from nutrient-rich urine could have environmental and... Read More
Top Stories in Science
- Conspiracy theorists flock to bird flu, spreading falsehoods
- New Zealand to help pay for cleaner cars to reduce emissions
- French scientist leading nuclear fusion project dies at 72
- SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from California
- Menaced by flames, nuclear lab peers into future of wildfire
- Bracing for her future: Baby giraffe fitted with orthotic
- Michigan profs push 'pee for peonies' urine diversion plan
- Moon goes blood red this weekend: 'Eclipse for the Americas'
- Agency unanimously rejects California desalination project
- Bracing for her future: Human medicine rescues giraffe
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