January 28, 2020, 6:00am Life
An asteroid striking the earth 66 million years ago caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs and other animals, a new study has confirmed. Read story
January 20, 2020, 7:44am Life
A pair of spacewalking astronauts wrapped up battery improvements outside the International Space Station on Monday, completing a job begun last fall. Read story
January 15, 2020, 9:11am Nation & World
Spacewalking astronauts had to make do with fewer lights and camera views from one helmet Wednesday while performing critical battery work outside the International Space Station. Read story
January 14, 2020, 6:05am Life
A tossed net has managed to capture space junk in a demonstration of ways to clean up debris in orbit. Read story
January 14, 2020, 6:02am Life
Whether it’s ice, lake-bottom mud, or cave stalactites and stalagmites, if something piles up and accumulates over time, it can tell scientists about past climate conditions or surrounding landscapes and how they’ve changed. Read story
January 12, 2020, 6:02am Life
When Robert Shafran started community college in upstate New York in 1980, he was puzzled that some of his fellow students seemed unusually friendly, acting as though they already knew him. Read story
January 10, 2020, 6:05am Life
The internet is riddled with long-forgotten accounts on social media, dating apps and various shopping sites used once or twice. Sure, you should delete all those unused logins and passwords. And eat your vegetables. And go to the gym. Read story
January 7, 2020, 4:31pm Northwest
A volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands spewed ash into flight paths, prompting a warning to pilots by the National Weather Service. Read story
January 7, 2020, 8:50am Northwest
Gravitational waves from an apparent collision of two neutron stars may have been spotted for the second time in scientific history. Read story
December 31, 2019, 1:00pm Life
It’s a rite of passage in schools across the U.S.: frog dissection. Read story
