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Schools in the path of April's total solar eclipse prepare for a natural teaching moment

Mar. 28, 2024 00:22 AM EDT

CLEVELAND (AP) — Seventh-grade student Henry Cohen bounced side to side in time to the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” playing in teacher Nancy Morris’ classroom, swinging his arms open and closed across the planets pictured on his T-shirt. Henry and other classmates at...

Looking at a solar eclipse can be dangerous without eclipse glasses. Here’s what to know

Mar. 27, 2024 12:13 PM EDT

DALLAS (AP) — Millions of people along a narrow band in North America will look up when the sky darkens during a total solar eclipse on April 8. When they do, safety is key. Staring directly at the sun during a solar eclipse or at any other time can lead to permanent eye damage....

A faster spinning Earth may cause timekeepers to subtract a second from world clocks

Mar. 27, 2024 12:03 PM EDT

Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second. For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because...

Dutch hyperloop center aims to advance futuristic transport technology

Mar. 26, 2024 13:36 PM EDT

VEENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A 420-meter (quarter-mile) white steel tube running alongside a railway line in the windswept northern Netherlands could usher in a new era in the transportation of people and freight. The tube is the heart of the new European Hyperloop Center that opens...

Baby gorilla cuddled by mother at London Zoo remains nameless

Mar. 25, 2024 17:37 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — The newest endangered baby gorilla at the London Zoo is more than six weeks old but doesn’t yet have a name. Zookeepers aren’t even sure if it’s a male or female because they haven’t been able to get close enough to examine it. A photo taken Monday by The...

Russian Soyuz spacecraft with 3 astronauts docks at the International Space Station

Mar. 25, 2024 12:02 PM EDT

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian spacecraft with three astronauts successfully docked Monday at the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Russian Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus reached the space outpost after...

Maple syrup from New Jersey: You got a problem with that?

Mar. 25, 2024 00:11 AM EDT

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Welcome to New Jersey, known around the world for Tony Soprano, Turnpike tolls, chemical plants, and ... maple syrup? If a university in the southern part of the state has its way, the sticky sweet brown stuff you put on your pancakes might one day...

Chick-Fil-A backtracks from its no-antibiotics-in-chicken pledge, blames projected supply shortages

Mar. 24, 2024 18:46 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — The fast-food chain Chick-Fil-A backtracked from its decade-old “no antibiotics ever” pledge intended to help prevent human antibiotic resistance linked to the rampant use of the drugs in livestock production. Instead, the company said in a statement that it...

Geomagnetic storm from a solar flare could disrupt radio communications and create a striking aurora

Mar. 24, 2024 17:24 PM EDT

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Space weather forecasters have issued a geomagnetic storm watch through Monday, saying an ouburst of plasma from a solar flare could interfere with radio transmissions on Earth. It could also make for great aurora viewing. There's no reason for the public to...

Nevada's first big-game moose hunt will be tiny as unusual southern expansion defies climate change

Mar. 24, 2024 00:06 AM EDT

RENO, Nev. (AP) — In what will be a tiny big-game hunt for some of the largest animals in North America, Nevada is planning its first-ever moose hunting season this fall. Wildlife managers say explosive growth in Nevada moose numbers over the past five years, increasing to a...