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Virgin Orbit in launch deal with UK’s Royal Air Force

July 19, 2019, 9:16am Nation & World

Virgin Orbit says it has been selected by the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force to provide launches of small satellites on short notice. Read story

Police in riot gear are lined up on a road in Hawaii where an estimated 2,000 people are gathered to protest construction of a telescope on a mountain that some Native Hawaiians consider sacred, on Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. Hawaii County Managing Director Wil Okabe says officials on Wednesday closed a highway leading to the protest site so a convoy of construction equipment can be brought up Mauna Kea. Protesters are off to the side of the road, singing.

Hawaii expands power to block telescope protesters

Police in riot gear are lined up on a road in Hawaii where an estimated 2,000 people are gathered to protest construction of a telescope on a mountain that some Native Hawaiians consider sacred, on Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. Hawaii County Managing Director Wil Okabe says officials on Wednesday closed a highway leading to the protest site so a convoy of construction equipment can be brought up Mauna Kea. Protesters are off to the side of the road, singing.

July 18, 2019, 4:30pm Nation & World

Thousands of protesters have joined a swelling effort to stop construction of a telescope they have long tried to keep off a mountain considered sacred to some Native Hawaiians, but state officials doubled down Wednesday on their commitment to ensure the project will be completed. Read story

Astronaut Michael Collins, right, speaks Tuesday with Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana at Launch Complex 39A about the moments leading up to the Apollo 11 launch at 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969.

Apollo 11 astronaut marks 50 years since launch

Astronaut Michael Collins, right, speaks Tuesday with Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana at Launch Complex 39A about the moments leading up to the Apollo 11 launch at 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969.

July 16, 2019, 8:14pm Life

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned Tuesday to the exact spot where he flew to the moon 50 years ago with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Read story

Joshua Cornish, 10, of Vancouver reacts after smelling the rare corpse flower, Titan VanCoug, in bloom at Washington State University Vancouver on Tuesday morning, July 16, 2019. Cornish was one of hundreds of visitors that took in the sight and the smell of the unique flower. "It smelled like garbage," he said.

Crowds gather to see – and smell – corpse flower at WSUVvideo icon

Joshua Cornish, 10, of Vancouver reacts after smelling the rare corpse flower, Titan VanCoug, in bloom at Washington State University Vancouver on Tuesday morning, July 16, 2019. Cornish was one of hundreds of visitors that took in the sight and the smell of the unique flower. "It smelled like garbage," he said.

July 16, 2019, 3:48pm Clark County News

A line of people gathered Tuesday morning to catch a glimpse and whiff of Titan VanCoug — the rare corpse flower at Washington State University Vancouver — quickly swelled to 100 or more visitors. Read story

In this July 20, 1969 image made from television, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong steps onto the surface of the moon. Millions on Earth who gathered around the TV and radio heard Armstrong say this: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” But after returning from space, he immediately insisted that he had been misquoted.

Eugene man recalls ‘the memory of a lifetime’ on 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 mission

In this July 20, 1969 image made from television, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong steps onto the surface of the moon. Millions on Earth who gathered around the TV and radio heard Armstrong say this: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” But after returning from space, he immediately insisted that he had been misquoted.

July 16, 2019, 12:30pm Northwest

Fifty years ago today at 6:32 a.m. July 16, the Apollo 11 spaceflight launched while carrying the fifth crewed Apollo mission in hopes of winning the Space Race and meeting the international challenge to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth. This week marks a… Read story

Tracy R. Wolstencroft, president and CEO of the National Geographic Society, kisses the fingernail of Jane Goodall, the famed chimp researcher, before she speaks at a press conference at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront on July 9 in San Diego. Goodall spoke alongside Environmental Systems Research Institute founder Jack Dangermond and biologist E.O. Wilson.

Jane Goodall’s work gets high-tech boost

Tracy R. Wolstencroft, president and CEO of the National Geographic Society, kisses the fingernail of Jane Goodall, the famed chimp researcher, before she speaks at a press conference at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront on July 9 in San Diego. Goodall spoke alongside Environmental Systems Research Institute founder Jack Dangermond and biologist E.O. Wilson.

July 16, 2019, 6:00am Life

In groundbreaking research beginning nearly 60 years ago, Jane Goodall has devoted her life to understanding our closest relatives, chimpanzees. Read story

Gut virus might be useful as therapy

July 16, 2019, 5:28am Health Wire

Helped by a global search through sewage, San Diego State University researchers have found that a benign gut virus appears to be older than the human race itself. Read story

A dominant male bluehead wrasse, upper left, defends its spawning territory and a group of females, yellow, off the coast of Florida. Normally the male and females stay as they are, feeding together and occasionally mating. But if a predator happens to snatch up the lead male, the dominant female in the group will take up rank — by becoming a male.

Scientists get peek into secrets of sex-changing fish

A dominant male bluehead wrasse, upper left, defends its spawning territory and a group of females, yellow, off the coast of Florida. Normally the male and females stay as they are, feeding together and occasionally mating. But if a predator happens to snatch up the lead male, the dominant female in the group will take up rank — by becoming a male.

July 16, 2019, 5:10am Life

If in the beginning there was male and female, fish seem to have forgotten the memo. Read story

Kathy Lee and Wai Lee, both of Portland, take photos of the Titan VanCoug, the rare corpse flower, as it begins to bloom around 9:30 p.m. Monday at Washington State University Vancouver. We've been waiting for this for a lifetime, Wai said. It's like chasing an eclipse. Wai is from Malaysia and grew up learning about the flower.

Rare corpse flower at WSU Vancouver blooming

Kathy Lee and Wai Lee, both of Portland, take photos of the Titan VanCoug, the rare corpse flower, as it begins to bloom around 9:30 p.m. Monday at Washington State University Vancouver. We've been waiting for this for a lifetime, Wai said. It's like chasing an eclipse. Wai is from Malaysia and grew up learning about the flower.

July 15, 2019, 9:20pm Clark County News

Titan VanCoug, the rare corpse flower at Washington State University Vancouver, began to open its leaves late Monday, releasing a stench as gnarly as its name promises. Read story

Demonstrators gather to block a road at the base of Hawaii's tallest mountain, Monday, July 15, 2019, in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to protest the construction of a giant telescope on land that some Native Hawaiians consider sacred.

Hawaii activists protesting over start of work on telescope

Demonstrators gather to block a road at the base of Hawaii's tallest mountain, Monday, July 15, 2019, in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to protest the construction of a giant telescope on land that some Native Hawaiians consider sacred.

July 15, 2019, 10:29am Nation & World

Singing, chanting and lying on the ground in the road, hundreds of people demonstrated on Monday against the construction of a giant telescope on a mountaintop that some Native Hawaiians consider sacred. Read story