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Science & Technology

Reports: Amazon bars video app TikTok on workers’ phones

July 10, 2020, 12:30pm Business

Amazon has told employees to delete the popular video app TikTok from phones on which they use Amazon email, citing security risks from the China-owned app, according to reports and posts by Twitter users who said they were Amazon employees. Read story

Moveable flood gates rise from the sea in the Venice lagoon, Italy, Friday, July 10, 2020. Venice has conducted a trial run an ambitious anti-flood system of 78 inflatable barriers in the hopes of protecting the lagoon city from devastating high tides. Premier Giuseppe Conte on Friday at a ceremony in Venice pressed a button that activated compressors to pump air into the bright yellow barriers, which then started rising from the sea to act a kind of a dike-on-demand.

Flood-weary Venice puts ‘Moses’ inflatable barriers to test

Moveable flood gates rise from the sea in the Venice lagoon, Italy, Friday, July 10, 2020. Venice has conducted a trial run an ambitious anti-flood system of 78 inflatable barriers in the hopes of protecting the lagoon city from devastating high tides. Premier Giuseppe Conte on Friday at a ceremony in Venice pressed a button that activated compressors to pump air into the bright yellow barriers, which then started rising from the sea to act a kind of a dike-on-demand.

July 10, 2020, 11:07am Life

Venice has conducted a trial run of an ambitious anti-flood system of 78 inflatable barriers in hopes of protecting the lagoon city from devastating high tides. Read story

A gray wolf hunts last year near Chewelah. Officials know of at least 126 gray wolves in the state, where the species is still listed as endangered.

Search finds zero wolves in Washington’s South Cascades

A gray wolf hunts last year near Chewelah. Officials know of at least 126 gray wolves in the state, where the species is still listed as endangered.

July 10, 2020, 10:32am Life

A two-year search for wolves in Washington’s South Cascades has found none, a scientist said Wednesday. Read story

5 qualities that attract a pesky mosquito

July 7, 2020, 6:05am Health

Atlanta’s mosquito season runs March to October, but the little buggers are most eager to sink their sharp proboscis into your skin and suck your blood during the hot summer months. Read story

Nightbird Restaurant chef and owner Kim Alter, left, mimics giving a hug to nurse practitioner Sydney Gressel, center, and patient care technician Matt Phillips on March 27 after delivering dinner to them at University of California at San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco.

Science finds that being kind pays off

Nightbird Restaurant chef and owner Kim Alter, left, mimics giving a hug to nurse practitioner Sydney Gressel, center, and patient care technician Matt Phillips on March 27 after delivering dinner to them at University of California at San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco.

July 7, 2020, 6:02am Life

Acts of kindness may not be that random after all. Science says being kind pays off. Read story

This 2014 microscope photo provided by Dr. F. Dahlke shows 1.5 mm diameter eggs of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). Global warming looks like it will be a far bigger problem for the world's fish species than scientists first thought, since a study led by Dahlke released on Thursday, July 2, 2020 shows that when fish are spawning or are embryos they are far more vulnerable to hotter water. (Dr. F.

Warming waters leave fish at risk

This 2014 microscope photo provided by Dr. F. Dahlke shows 1.5 mm diameter eggs of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). Global warming looks like it will be a far bigger problem for the world's fish species than scientists first thought, since a study led by Dahlke released on Thursday, July 2, 2020 shows that when fish are spawning or are embryos they are far more vulnerable to hotter water. (Dr. F.

July 7, 2020, 6:00am Life

Global warming looks like it will be a bigger problem for the world’s fish species than scientists first thought: A new study shows that when fish are spawning or are embryos they are more vulnerable to hotter water. Read story

This illustration depicts a Kongonaphon kely, a newly described reptile near the ancestry of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, shown to scale with human hands.

Scientists have discovered a pocket-sized dinosaur forerunner

This illustration depicts a Kongonaphon kely, a newly described reptile near the ancestry of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, shown to scale with human hands.

July 6, 2020, 5:02pm Life

Meet Kongonaphon kely, a pocket-sized dinosaur forerunner that was smaller than your cellphone. Read story

In this image taken from NASA video, commander Chris Cassidy, right, and NASA astronaut Bob Behnken perform their second spacewalk in under a week Wednesday, July 1, 2020, to replace old batteries outside the International Space Station.

Astronauts perform spacewalk to swap station batteries

In this image taken from NASA video, commander Chris Cassidy, right, and NASA astronaut Bob Behnken perform their second spacewalk in under a week Wednesday, July 1, 2020, to replace old batteries outside the International Space Station.

July 1, 2020, 8:52am Nation & World

Astronauts completed their second spacewalk in under a week Wednesday to replace old batteries outside the International Space Station. Read story

The queen bee (marked in green) and worker bees move around a hive at the Veterans Affairs in Manchester, N.H.

Honeybees better after bad year

The queen bee (marked in green) and worker bees move around a hive at the Veterans Affairs in Manchester, N.H.

June 30, 2020, 6:02am Life

American honeybee colonies have bounced back after a bad year, the annual beekeeping survey finds. Read story

This photo provided by NASA shows NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and NASA Flight Engineer Bob Behnken during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, June 26, 2020. Cassidy and Behnken, are conducting the first of at least four spacewalks to replace the last bunch of old station batteries.

Spacewalking astronaut loses mirror, newest space junk

This photo provided by NASA shows NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and NASA Flight Engineer Bob Behnken during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, June 26, 2020. Cassidy and Behnken, are conducting the first of at least four spacewalks to replace the last bunch of old station batteries.

June 26, 2020, 9:09am Life

A spacewalking astronaut added to the millions of pieces of junk orbiting the Earth on Friday, losing a small mirror as soon as he stepped out of the International Space Station for battery work. Read story