December 29, 2019, 2:20pm Northwest
An unpaved highway runs north out of Nome, carving through more than 70 lonely miles of tundra before dead-ending at this Inupiaq village. Read story
December 25, 2019, 5:09pm Life
Whales are big, but why aren’t they bigger? A new study says it’s basically about how many calories they can take in. Read story
December 25, 2019, 5:08pm Life
The desperate search for ways to help the world’s coral reefs rebound from the devastating effects of climate change has given rise to some radical solutions. Read story
December 22, 2019, 2:31pm Nation & World
SAN FRANCISCO - Once there was an asteroid that flew too close to the sun. It was small and dark and rocky, too fragile to withstand such scorching conditions. The asteroid cracked, releasing a burst of dust and debris. Though it continued traveling along its orbit, it dropped millions of… Read story
December 22, 2019, 2:30pm Latest News
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft landed softly in the New Mexico desert Sunday morning, successfully finishing a flawed test mission that went awry shortly after the capsule reached space. Read story
December 6, 2019, 10:29am Life
For 18 days, an underwater robot dived and surfaced and dived and surfaced — some 402 times in all — listening to the ocean’s depths as it traveled hundreds of miles along the continental shelf off the Washington and Oregon coastline. Read story
November 30, 2019, 6:03am Nation & World
Most Americans know mussels as thumb-sized shellfish that occasionally adorn restaurant dinner plates. Read story
November 28, 2019, 11:30am Northwest
A fossil is a messenger from the past. Read story
November 28, 2019, 6:00am Nation & World
On some sunny day next summer, in front of a crowd at Kennedy Space Center, a rocket carrying NASA’s next, best hope at finding life on Mars will launch into the sky. Read story
November 27, 2019, 6:04am Life
Researchers from Stanford and UC San Diego have achieved a difficult breakthrough, making the first recordings of a blue whale’s beating heart while the animal swam in the wild along the California coast. Read story
