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Philippe Darriet, president of the Institute for Wine and Vine Research and head oenologist fills glasses with wine for a blind tasting March 1 at the ISVV Institute in Villenave-d&#039;Ornon, southwestern France.

Experts savor fine wine that orbited Earth on space station

Philippe Darriet, president of the Institute for Wine and Vine Research and head oenologist fills glasses with wine for a blind tasting March 1 at the ISVV Institute in Villenave-d&#039;Ornon, southwestern France.

March 30, 2021, 6:00am Life

It tastes like rose petals. It smells like a campfire. It glistens with a burnt-orange hue. What is it? A 5,000-euro bottle of Petrus Pomerol wine that spent a year in space. Read story

A Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute right whale survey team based in Georgia, from left: Marcy Lee, Ashley Millan Ambert, David Lockwood and Melanie White.

Team tracks rare, endangered whale

A Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute right whale survey team based in Georgia, from left: Marcy Lee, Ashley Millan Ambert, David Lockwood and Melanie White.

March 30, 2021, 6:00am Life

Crowded into a tiny plane, 1,000 feet above the water off Georgia, the surveyors look down in search of a disturbance — a long splash, or a dark patch amid all that blue. Read story

The Falcon 9 second stage from the March 4 Starlink could be seen all over the northwest as it made re-entry into the atmosphere. This photo was taken in Woodland.

SpaceX rocket junk streaked spectacularly across the Pacific Northwest sky. Here’s the science behind the extraordinary show

The Falcon 9 second stage from the March 4 Starlink could be seen all over the northwest as it made re-entry into the atmosphere. This photo was taken in Woodland.

March 29, 2021, 7:52am Latest News

Genevieve Reaume was outside her Portland home walking her six-month-old puppy Thursday evening when she saw in the sky a fast-moving shower of glowing points of fire. Read story

A herpetologist in North Carolina has been documenting a group of cottonmouths similar to this one.

Cottonmouths on N.C. coast have a Facebook page

A herpetologist in North Carolina has been documenting a group of cottonmouths similar to this one.

March 26, 2021, 6:00am Life

If North Carolina has such a thing as celebrity wildlife, it would include a group of 100-plus venomous cottonmouths living in a secret spot near the coast. Read story

FILE - In this May 25, 2017, file photo, baby eels swim in a plastic bag after being caught near Brewer, Maine.  Maine&#039;s baby eel fishermen are hopeful for a more stable season in 2021 as they seek one of the most valuable natural resources in New England. (AP Photo/Robert F.

Maine’s baby eel fishermen hope for normalcy in 2021

FILE - In this May 25, 2017, file photo, baby eels swim in a plastic bag after being caught near Brewer, Maine.  Maine&#039;s baby eel fishermen are hopeful for a more stable season in 2021 as they seek one of the most valuable natural resources in New England. (AP Photo/Robert F.

March 26, 2021, 6:00am Life

Maine’s baby eel fishermen are hopeful for a more stable season in 2021 as they seek one of the most valuable natural resources in New England. Read story

Annette Vary-Getty of Washington State University looks over the current tower of a weather station at the 78th Street Heritage Farm on a recent Friday morning. The tower is set to get a 21st century upgrade.

Upgrade in the forecast for weather station at 78th Street Heritage Farm

Annette Vary-Getty of Washington State University looks over the current tower of a weather station at the 78th Street Heritage Farm on a recent Friday morning. The tower is set to get a 21st century upgrade.

March 23, 2021, 6:01am Clark County News

Writing columns of weather data in a registry was part of a physician’s duties at Fort Vancouver in the 1830s. These days, Annette Vary-Getty walks out of her office once a week, heads across the 78th Street Heritage Farm parking lot, and downloads temperature and rainfall figures on a flash… Read story

Thick smoke from multiple forest fires shrouds iconic El Capitan, right, and the granite walls of Yosemite Valley on Sept. 12 in Yosemite National Park, Calif.

Wildfires made North America air worse in ’20

Thick smoke from multiple forest fires shrouds iconic El Capitan, right, and the granite walls of Yosemite Valley on Sept. 12 in Yosemite National Park, Calif.

March 23, 2021, 6:00am Life

The devastating wildfires that torched a record 4.3 million acres in the U.S. in 2020 made North America the only region in the world where air quality was worse than during the previous year. Read story

This undated combination of microscope images provided by Monash University in March shows different &quot;iBlastoids&quot; (embryolike structures) stained to highlight different cell types.

Scientists use human cells to study development

This undated combination of microscope images provided by Monash University in March shows different &quot;iBlastoids&quot; (embryolike structures) stained to highlight different cell types.

March 23, 2021, 6:00am Life

For the first time, scientists have used human cells to make structures that mimic the earliest stages of development, which they say will pave the way for more research without running afoul of restrictions on using real embryos. Read story

Sand verbena (purple) and desert sunflower (yellow) in Southern California&#039;s Borrego Springs.

Dry winter means no ‘super bloom’

Sand verbena (purple) and desert sunflower (yellow) in Southern California&#039;s Borrego Springs.

March 22, 2021, 6:05am Life

Thanks to a dry winter, visitors to the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park this spring won’t get to enjoy a wildflower “super bloom,” but an unexpected rainstorm on Wednesday afternoon has raised hopes for a late-season burst of color in early April. Read story

Can artificial intelligence combat wildfires? California county tests new technology

March 21, 2021, 1:19pm Nation & World

LOS ANGELES –- Sonoma County, California, is adding artificial intelligence to its wildfire-fighting arsenal. Read story