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Animals shifting from day to night to avoid people

June 21, 2018, 5:48am Life

Human encroachment is pushing wild mammals all over the globe to increasingly become creatures of the night, moving their daytime activities toward the darker hours, a new study finds. Read story

Parents mistaken to ban children from social media

June 20, 2018, 6:05am Life

If you had a magic wand, would you ban your child from social media for as long as possible? If you said yes, you’re not alone. Glennon Doyle, author of “Love Warrior” and a mom of three, recently tweeted that her kids aren’t allowed on social media. And I’ve been… Read story

David Inouye in Gothic, Colo., on May 1. More than 40 years ago, the biologist started studying when wildflowers, birds, insects first appeared each spring on this mountain.

Signs of global warming are all around you

David Inouye in Gothic, Colo., on May 1. More than 40 years ago, the biologist started studying when wildflowers, birds, insects first appeared each spring on this mountain.

June 20, 2018, 6:05am Nation & World

David Inouye is an accidental climate scientist. Read story

Reed senior makes ‘watershed’ discovery of potential pollution-fighting bacteria

June 19, 2018, 9:31am Northwest

Morgan Vague was speechless when she looked through the microscope. Read story

Lawsuit over white nationalist’s Twitter ban clears hurdle

June 15, 2018, 10:40am Nation & World

A California judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses Twitter of violating the free speech rights of a leading figure in the white nationalist movement by banning his social media account. Read story

FILE- In this Jan. 22, 2018, file photo a customer scans his Amazon Go cellphone app at the entrance as he heads into an Amazon Go store in Seattle. Microsoft is working on automated checkout technology that could help retailers compete with Amazon’s new cashier-less stores. One firm building automated checkout systems, AVA Retail, said Thursday, June 14 that it is working with Microsoft on the technology for physical stores.

Microsoft in pursuit of cashier-less stores

FILE- In this Jan. 22, 2018, file photo a customer scans his Amazon Go cellphone app at the entrance as he heads into an Amazon Go store in Seattle. Microsoft is working on automated checkout technology that could help retailers compete with Amazon’s new cashier-less stores. One firm building automated checkout systems, AVA Retail, said Thursday, June 14 that it is working with Microsoft on the technology for physical stores.

June 14, 2018, 5:29pm Business

Microsoft is working on automated checkout technology that could help retailers compete with Amazon’s new cashier-less stores. Read story

This undated photo provided by NOAA in May 2018 shows aurora australis near the South Pole Atmospheric Research Observatory in Antarctica. When a hole in the ozone formed over Antarctica, countries around the world in 1987 agreed to phase out several types of ozone-depleting chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Production was banned, emissions fell and the hole shriveled. But according to a study released on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, scientists say since 2013, there’s more of a banned CFC going into the atmosphere.

Emissions of banned chemical are rising

This undated photo provided by NOAA in May 2018 shows aurora australis near the South Pole Atmospheric Research Observatory in Antarctica. When a hole in the ozone formed over Antarctica, countries around the world in 1987 agreed to phase out several types of ozone-depleting chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Production was banned, emissions fell and the hole shriveled. But according to a study released on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, scientists say since 2013, there’s more of a banned CFC going into the atmosphere.

June 14, 2018, 2:02pm Life

Something strange is happening with a now-banned chemical that eats away at Earth’s protective ozone layer: Scientists say there’s more of it — not less — going into the atmosphere and they don’t know where it is coming from. Read story

Homes are surrounded by water from the flooded Brazos River in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Freeport, Texas, in September.

Study finds tropical cyclones slowing

Homes are surrounded by water from the flooded Brazos River in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Freeport, Texas, in September.

June 14, 2018, 1:04pm Life

Tropical cyclones around the world are moving slightly slower over land and water, dumping more rain as they stall, just as Hurricane Harvey did last year, a new study found. Read story

Average U.S. diet devours energy

June 14, 2018, 12:01pm Life

If your household is anything like the American average, your diet generates lots of greenhouse gas emissions: roughly the same amount in a single week as a drive from D.C. to Trenton, a new study finds. Read story

The New Horizons spacecraft photographed dunes, small ripples at bottom right, on Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia ice plain. At upper left are a series of mountains.

Dunes discovered on Pluto made of frozen grains of methane

The New Horizons spacecraft photographed dunes, small ripples at bottom right, on Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia ice plain. At upper left are a series of mountains.

June 14, 2018, 6:03am Life

Scientists have discovered dunes on Pluto made of tiny frozen grains of methane. Read story