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Hurricanes fell silent as African dust clouded U.S. skies

July 19, 2018, 6:05am Life

What can give you itchy eyes, replenish the rain forest and bring a hurricane to its knees? Dry and dusty African air. Read story

Asteroids part of 5 destroyed worlds

July 19, 2018, 6:04am Life

In the beginning, the solar system was little more than a cloud of dust and gas. Then cold temperatures caused the center of the cloud to collapse, forming the sun. The newborn star lit up with nuclear fusion, sending light and heat out into the spinning circumstellar disk. Soon that… Read story

Ingentia prima had an improved, avian-like respiratory system with developed cervical air sacs, shown in green. Its lungs are shown in brown. Jorge A.

These dinosaurs predate Brachiosaurus

Ingentia prima had an improved, avian-like respiratory system with developed cervical air sacs, shown in green. Its lungs are shown in brown. Jorge A.

July 19, 2018, 6:02am Life

There’s more than one way to supersize a dinosaur. Scientists studying the ancient bones of sauropod relatives that walked the Earth more than 200 million years ago have found that they grew to multiton masses 30 million years before the appearance of their cousins, the titanosaurs. Read story

Clark instructor receives tech grant

July 17, 2018, 6:04am Clark County News

Clark College computer technology instructor Bruce Elgort received grants to add accessibility principles into his computer science curriculum. Read story

Synology DS1618+ can back up and store your data and host your website, too

July 15, 2018, 6:00am Business

I’ve written about Synology products before, but unless you own one or are in the market for such a device, I’m betting you might not know what they do. Read story

Fatu, left, and Najin, right, the only two female northern white rhinos left in the world, grace the pen where they are kept for observation March 2 at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia county in Kenya.

Rhino’s genes might live on

Fatu, left, and Najin, right, the only two female northern white rhinos left in the world, grace the pen where they are kept for observation March 2 at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia county in Kenya.

July 13, 2018, 6:05am Life

A 28-year-old rhinoceros named Najin and her daughter, Fatu, are the only northern white rhinos on the planet. They live at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya under constant armed guard. Both animals are infertile. In March, veterinarians euthanized Sudan, Najin’s father and the last male rhino of their kind. Once… Read story

In this November 2010 photo provided by the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, researchers examine the body of a frozen hunter known as Oetzi the Iceman to sample his stomach contents in Bolzano, Italy. In a report released on Thursday, July 12, 2018, scientists said the analysis offers a snapshot of what ancient Europeans ate more than five millennia ago.

Ancient ‘Iceman’ shows signs of a well-balanced last meal

In this November 2010 photo provided by the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, researchers examine the body of a frozen hunter known as Oetzi the Iceman to sample his stomach contents in Bolzano, Italy. In a report released on Thursday, July 12, 2018, scientists said the analysis offers a snapshot of what ancient Europeans ate more than five millennia ago.

July 12, 2018, 2:45pm Nation & World

Talk about a paleo diet. Scientists have uncovered the last meal of a frozen hunter who died 5,300 years ago in the Alps. Read story

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2009 file photo, a poster touting applications available for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch is seen at the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco. Since its debut 10 years ago Tuesday, July 10, 2018, Apple’s app store has unleashed new ways for us to work, play, and become lost in our screens.

How Apple’s app store changed our world

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2009 file photo, a poster touting applications available for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch is seen at the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco. Since its debut 10 years ago Tuesday, July 10, 2018, Apple’s app store has unleashed new ways for us to work, play, and become lost in our screens.

July 12, 2018, 6:05am Business

A decade ago, Apple opened a store peddling iPhone apps, unlocking the creativity of software developers and letting users truly make their mobile devices their own. Read story

This stone flake was found in an archaeological site in the Loess Plateau in China.

Find in China might change evolutionary timeline for humans

This stone flake was found in an archaeological site in the Loess Plateau in China.

July 11, 2018, 8:04pm Life

Stone tools recovered from an excavation in China suggest that our evolutionary forerunners trekked out of Africa earlier than we thought. Read story

Twitter is headquartered in San Francisco.

Users to see numbers of followers on Twitter drop

Twitter is headquartered in San Francisco.

July 11, 2018, 4:02pm Business

Celebrities, start kissing your Twitter followers goodbye. Read story