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FILE - This photo released Thursday, Feb. 5, 2004 made by one of the rear hazard-avoidance cameras on NASA’s Opportunity rover, shows Opportunity’s landing platform, with freshly made tracks leading away from it. Opportunity rolled about 11 feet on Thursday, the first day it has moved since it left the lander on Saturday. Engineers commanded Opportunity to turn slightly during the drive, to test how it steers while rolling through the martian soil.

NASA rover finally bites the dust on Mars after 15 years

FILE - This photo released Thursday, Feb. 5, 2004 made by one of the rear hazard-avoidance cameras on NASA’s Opportunity rover, shows Opportunity’s landing platform, with freshly made tracks leading away from it. Opportunity rolled about 11 feet on Thursday, the first day it has moved since it left the lander on Saturday. Engineers commanded Opportunity to turn slightly during the drive, to test how it steers while rolling through the martian soil.

February 13, 2019, 12:05pm Latest News

NASA’s Opportunity, the Mars rover that was built to operate for just three months but kept going and going, was pronounced dead Wednesday, 15 years after it landed on the red planet. Read story

Mount St. Helens as seen from the camp chapel at Lake Merwin Campers Hideaway in Amboy in July.

Public-lands bill gives boost to volcano warning, monitoring systems

Mount St. Helens as seen from the camp chapel at Lake Merwin Campers Hideaway in Amboy in July.

February 12, 2019, 10:37pm Clark County News

The wide-ranging Natural Resources Management Act, co-sponsored by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and which passed Tuesday in the U.S. Senate, includes a provision to improve volcano early warning and monitoring systems. Read story

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FILE - In this April 10, 2018, file photo, Historic Jamestowne staff archaeologist Lee McBee, right, shows artifacts to Carla Howe, of Gilmanton, N.H., left, and her children Caroline, second from left, and Grace, third from left, at the dig site of the Angelo slave house in Jamestown, Va. The first Africans to arrive in North America were so little noted by history that many are known today by only their first names.

Researchers seek fuller picture of first Africans in America

FILE - In this April 10, 2018, file photo, Historic Jamestowne staff archaeologist Lee McBee, right, shows artifacts to Carla Howe, of Gilmanton, N.H., left, and her children Caroline, second from left, and Grace, third from left, at the dig site of the Angelo slave house in Jamestown, Va. The first Africans to arrive in North America were so little noted by history that many are known today by only their first names.

February 8, 2019, 3:35pm Nation & World

The first Africans to arrive in English-controlled North America were so little noted by history that many are known today by only their first names: Antony and Isabella, Angelo, Frances and Peter. Read story

The twin Mars Cube One spacecraft fly over Mars with Earth and the sun in the distance.

NASA: Tiny satellites WALL-E and EVE fall silent

The twin Mars Cube One spacecraft fly over Mars with Earth and the sun in the distance.

February 6, 2019, 9:52pm Nation & World

Two tiny satellites have fallen silent hundreds of millions of miles away, after proving new technology at Mars. Read story

This map shows global surface temperature anomalies for 2014-2018. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal temperatures are shown in blue.

2018 fourth-warmest year on record

This map shows global surface temperature anomalies for 2014-2018. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal temperatures are shown in blue.

February 6, 2019, 11:40am Nation & World

WASHINGTON -- While 2018 was the fourth-warmest year on record, British meteorologists are predicting the next five years will be much hotter, maybe even record-breaking. Read story

Climate change was behind 15 weather disasters in 2017

February 5, 2019, 6:05am Life

A drought that scorched the Great Plains, causing wildfires and $2.5 billion in agriculture losses. Catastrophic floods that submerged more than a third of Bangladesh. Record-shattering heat waves that killed scores of people in Europe and China. Read story

The Odin, a genetic engineering company in Oakland, Calif., uses green tree frogs in a kit it sells, Frog Genetic Engineering Kit — Learn to Genetically Modify Animals.

Home gene-editing kit for frogs popular

The Odin, a genetic engineering company in Oakland, Calif., uses green tree frogs in a kit it sells, Frog Genetic Engineering Kit — Learn to Genetically Modify Animals.

February 5, 2019, 6:01am Life

In an ordinary house tucked away on a quiet street in Oakland, Josiah Zayner stands over a container filled with green tree frogs with a syringe in hand. Read story

Zoe Kravitz appears in a scene from a Super Bowl commercial for Michelob Ultra Pure Gold. The ad features Kravitz using techniques for autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR.

ASMR might help elevate mood

Zoe Kravitz appears in a scene from a Super Bowl commercial for Michelob Ultra Pure Gold. The ad features Kravitz using techniques for autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR.

February 5, 2019, 6:00am Life

A new Super Bowl commercial aims to calm frenzied football fans with oddly relaxing images of actress Zoe Kravitz whispering into a pair of microphones and softly tapping on a bottle. Read story

Jellyfish swim in a tank at an aquarium in Tokyo on Aug. 8, 2013.

Jellyfish ‘epidemic’ raises worries for oceans

Jellyfish swim in a tank at an aquarium in Tokyo on Aug. 8, 2013.

January 29, 2019, 6:00am Life

Authorities in Queensland, Australia, were forced to close beaches across the region over a recent weekend, amid what local officials said was a jellyfish “epidemic.” More than 13,000 stings were recorded in Queensland alone in a week, with more than 2,500 people seeking treatment over that weekend, according to rescue… Read story