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Scientists believe they found fragments of March meteorite

July 11, 2018, 3:40pm Northwest

Scientists conducted the first known ocean meteorite recovery off the coast of Grays Harbor County earlier this week, and are confident they found several rocks that are from the March 7 meteorite fall that lit up the night sky. Read story

New Microsoft tablet smallest, cheapest yet

July 11, 2018, 6:02am Business

Microsoft has unveiled its smallest and least expensive Surface tablet yet, a long-rumored portable device that will compete with Apple’s iPad Mini. Read story

Spittlebugs are similar to aphids. In addition to their bubble-making skills, the insects are prodigious jumpers, able to leap 2 feet in a single bound.

Bug’s ‘spit’ not for squeamish

Spittlebugs are similar to aphids. In addition to their bubble-making skills, the insects are prodigious jumpers, able to leap 2 feet in a single bound.

July 11, 2018, 6:02am Clark County News

If the spittlebug became a superhero in the vein of Marvel’s “Ant Man and the Wasp,” it would have an unusual set of powers. Read story

A bee sits on a flower in Southwest Minnesota. A new federal study finds that honeybees in the Northern Great Plains are having a hard time finding food as conservation land is converted to row crops.

Bee hot spot becoming food desert for critters

A bee sits on a flower in Southwest Minnesota. A new federal study finds that honeybees in the Northern Great Plains are having a hard time finding food as conservation land is converted to row crops.

July 6, 2018, 6:00am Life

Bees are having a much harder time finding food in the region known as America’s last honeybee refuge, a new federal study found. Read story

A Cassini image of Enceladus.

Ingredients of life found gushing out of Saturn’s moon

A Cassini image of Enceladus.

July 5, 2018, 6:00am Life

Last fall, as NASA’s celebrated Cassini spacecraft spiraled toward its final, fatal descent into Saturn’s clouds, astrochemist Morgan Cable couldn’t help but shed a tear for the school-bus-size orbiter, which became a victim of its own success. Read story

Koala populations are expected to decline by 50 percent in the next 20 years, according to the Australian Museum.

The koalas are threatened. Can their genome help us save them?

Koala populations are expected to decline by 50 percent in the next 20 years, according to the Australian Museum.

July 5, 2018, 6:00am Life

The koala is an unusual creature. Native to Australia and a bit bigger than a raccoon, it spends most of its time in eucalyptus trees, gorging on leaves that are toxic to nearly every other animal on the planet. Read story

Arctic sea warming up to Atlantic Ocean

July 5, 2018, 6:00am Life

Scientists studying one of the fastest-warming regions of the global ocean say changes in this region are so sudden and vast that in effect, it will soon be another limb of the Atlantic, rather than a characteristically icy Arctic sea. Read story

A SpaceX cargo capsule approaches the International Space Station on Monday, July 2, 2018, to deliver the first robot with artificial intelligence in orbit.

SpaceX delivers AI robot, ice cream, mice to space station

A SpaceX cargo capsule approaches the International Space Station on Monday, July 2, 2018, to deliver the first robot with artificial intelligence in orbit.

July 2, 2018, 9:54am Life

The International Space Station got its first robot with artificial intelligence Monday, along with some berries, ice cream and identical brown mice. Read story

Scientists search for meteorite pieces off Washington coast

July 2, 2018, 7:08am Northwest

Scientists are planning to search the seafloor off the Washington coast for remnants of a meteor that lit up the Pacific Northwest sky and splashed down in March. Read story

Jennea Bivens, left, talks with 13-year-old daughter Ayrial Miller, about the contacts in her Snapchat account.

What are kids really doing on those devices?

Jennea Bivens, left, talks with 13-year-old daughter Ayrial Miller, about the contacts in her Snapchat account.

July 1, 2018, 6:05am Life

Ayrial Miller is clearly annoyed. Her mother is sitting with her on the couch in their Chicago apartment, scrolling through the teen’s contacts on social media. Read story