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Science & Technology

Chronicling the last years of a dying North Cascades glacier

August 23, 2019, 10:30am Northwest

Nestled in a cirque of mountain peaks in the Monte Cristo range, above the jade green waters of Blanca Lake, lives the Columbia Glacier, several millennia old and now in its waning years. Read story

Staff Sgt. Emily O’Neil, 9th Airlift Squadron flight engineer and 2012 Hudson’s Bay High School graduate, stands by the U.S. flag at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Senior Airman Christopher Quail/U.S.

Hudson’s Bay grad helps Air Force design flight equipment for women

Staff Sgt. Emily O’Neil, 9th Airlift Squadron flight engineer and 2012 Hudson’s Bay High School graduate, stands by the U.S. flag at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Senior Airman Christopher Quail/U.S.

August 23, 2019, 6:00am Clark County Life

Staff Sgt. Emily O’Neil enlisted in the U.S. Air Force after she graduated from Hudson’s Bay High School in 2012. Read story

Jennifer Bailey, vice president of Apple Pay, speaks March 25 about the Apple Card at the Steve Jobs Theater during an event to announce new products in Cupertino, Calif.

Apple has cleaning advice for new credit card

Jennifer Bailey, vice president of Apple Pay, speaks March 25 about the Apple Card at the Steve Jobs Theater during an event to announce new products in Cupertino, Calif.

August 22, 2019, 5:27pm Business

Apple believes some of its zealous customers will treasure its new titanium credit card so much that they will spend time polishing its white finish. Read story

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket lifts off from space launch complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with the second Global Positioning System III payload, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Last of its kind rocket puts GPS satellite in orbit

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket lifts off from space launch complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with the second Global Positioning System III payload, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

August 22, 2019, 9:57am Nation & World

A rocket that’s the last of its kind delivered the newest, most powerful GPS satellite to orbit for the Air Force on Thursday. Read story

Scientists finally know how big earthquakes start: With many smaller ones

August 21, 2019, 9:59am Nation & World

The vast majority of earthquakes we feel come soon after smaller ones, according to new research that provides unprecedented insights into how seismology works. Read story

This photo provided by NASA, astronauts Andrew Morgan and Nick Hague (not seen) begin to install a docking port delivered by SpaceX last month outside the International Space Station on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. The port will be used by SpaceX and Boeing once they start launching astronauts to the orbiting lab late this year or early next year.

Spacewalking astronauts add parking spot to space station

This photo provided by NASA, astronauts Andrew Morgan and Nick Hague (not seen) begin to install a docking port delivered by SpaceX last month outside the International Space Station on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. The port will be used by SpaceX and Boeing once they start launching astronauts to the orbiting lab late this year or early next year.

August 21, 2019, 9:55am Nation & World

Spacewalking astronauts added another parking spot to the International Space Station on Wednesday. Read story

Cheryl Hayashi uses a microscope to work on a spider in her lab at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Hayashi has collected spider silk glands of about 50 species, just a small dent in the more than 48,000 spider species known worldwide.

Spider silk could be basis for new material

Cheryl Hayashi uses a microscope to work on a spider in her lab at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Hayashi has collected spider silk glands of about 50 species, just a small dent in the more than 48,000 spider species known worldwide.

August 20, 2019, 6:00am Life

With two pairs of fine-tipped tweezers and the hands of a surgeon, Cheryl Hayashi began dissecting the body of a silver garden spider under her microscope. Read story

Scientists make robotic lens eye can control

August 20, 2019, 6:00am Life

When you’re reading, looking at a map or squinting toward the horizon, your eyes adjust themselves involuntarily and instantaneously, thanks to tiny muscles inside the crystalline lens that can bend it and change its shape. Read story

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, icebergs are photographed from the window of an airplane carrying NASA Scientists as they fly on a mission to track melting ice in eastern Greenland. Greenland has been melting faster in the last decade and this summer, it has seen two of the biggest melts on record since 2012.

NASA scientists fly over Greenland to track melting ice

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, icebergs are photographed from the window of an airplane carrying NASA Scientists as they fly on a mission to track melting ice in eastern Greenland. Greenland has been melting faster in the last decade and this summer, it has seen two of the biggest melts on record since 2012.

August 15, 2019, 9:30am Nation & World

ABOARD A NASA RESEARCH PLANE OVER GREENLAND — The fields of rippling ice 500 feet below the NASA plane give way to the blue-green of water dotted with irregular chunks of bleached-white ice, some the size of battleships, some as tall as 15-story buildings. Read story

Climate change factor in turbulence issues

August 13, 2019, 6:02am Life

Turkish Airlines Flight 1 had just 45 minutes left in its eight-hour-plus journey from Istanbul to New York on March 10 when the Boeing 777 suddenly shook violently and plunged, injuring passengers and members of the flight crew. The plane made an emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport,… Read story