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An unusual iceberg near the Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula is seen in January.

Study sounds alarm on Antarctica’s ice sheet

An unusual iceberg near the Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula is seen in January.

June 13, 2018, 10:28pm Nation & World

The melting of Antarctica is accelerating at an alarming rate, with about 3 trillion tons of ice disappearing since 1992, an international team of ice experts said in a new study. Read story

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017 file photo, Demonstrators rally in support of net neutrality outside a Verizon store in New York. Consumers aren’t likely to see immediate changes following Monday, June 11, 2018 formal repeal of Obama-era internet rules that had ensured equal treatment for all. Rather, any changes are likely to happen slowly, and companies will try to make sure that consumers are on board with the moves, experts say.

Your internet use could change as ‘net neutrality’ ends

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017 file photo, Demonstrators rally in support of net neutrality outside a Verizon store in New York. Consumers aren’t likely to see immediate changes following Monday, June 11, 2018 formal repeal of Obama-era internet rules that had ensured equal treatment for all. Rather, any changes are likely to happen slowly, and companies will try to make sure that consumers are on board with the moves, experts say.

June 11, 2018, 9:38am Business

Your ability to watch and use your favorite apps and services could start to change — though not right away — following the official demise Monday of Obama-era internet protections. Read story

The Acer C200 is designed for someone who travels and needs to take a projector along for presentations.

Tech Test: Acer portable projector a useful device

The Acer C200 is designed for someone who travels and needs to take a projector along for presentations.

June 10, 2018, 6:05am Business

In my job, I am frequently in meetings in which we watch a presentation from a projector connected to a computer. Read story

A bird flies in front of the trail of the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz MS-09 space ship, carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, as it blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday. The Russian rocket carries U.S. astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, and German astronaut Alexander Gerst.

Soyuz capsule with 3 astronauts docks with space station

A bird flies in front of the trail of the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz MS-09 space ship, carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, as it blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday. The Russian rocket carries U.S. astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, and German astronaut Alexander Gerst.

June 8, 2018, 9:26am Life

A Russian space capsule carrying three astronauts has docked with the International Space Station two days after it was launched from Kazakhstan. Read story

Used flexible drinking straws sit in a bin at the Coca-Cola factory in Dongen, Netherlands.

Fierce fight for paper straws

Used flexible drinking straws sit in a bin at the Coca-Cola factory in Dongen, Netherlands.

June 7, 2018, 6:04am Life

Before you can say the words “plastic straw,” another major company will have ditched them. Read story

A least weasel in its white winter coat.

Less snow means fewer hiding places for some animals

A least weasel in its white winter coat.

June 7, 2018, 6:02am Life

The best-preserved remnant of primeval European woods is the Bialowieza Forest, which grows along the border of Poland and Belarus. A World Heritage site since 1979, the 550-square-mile forest covers an area larger than the city of Phoenix. Wolves and rare European bison walk beneath the old-growth trees. Scurrying lower… Read story

Left: Stick insect eggs collected from the excrement of brown-eared bulbul. Right: A stick insect born from a digested egg.

Strange parenting by stick insects

Left: Stick insect eggs collected from the excrement of brown-eared bulbul. Right: A stick insect born from a digested egg.

June 7, 2018, 5:29am Life

It’s hard to be an attentive parent when your entire life strategy is predicated on looking and behaving like an inanimate object. Read story

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 15, 2018 file photo, Rick Stewart sits in the sunshine with the New York City skyline in the background, in a park in Weehawken, N.J. According to weather records released on Wednesday, June 6, 2018, May reached a record 65.4 degrees in the continental United States, which is 5.2 degrees above the 20th century average.

The heat is back on high: May smashes U.S. temperature records

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 15, 2018 file photo, Rick Stewart sits in the sunshine with the New York City skyline in the background, in a park in Weehawken, N.J. According to weather records released on Wednesday, June 6, 2018, May reached a record 65.4 degrees in the continental United States, which is 5.2 degrees above the 20th century average.

June 6, 2018, 8:45am Nation & World

Record heat returned to the United States with a vengeance in May. Read story

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with the SES-12 commercial communications satellite in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday. The rocket launched at 12:45 a.m. Monday morning with a satellite bound for geostationary orbit. A long exposure with a wide angle lens of the launch shows the rocket rising over the Cocoa Beach Pier in the foreground, and the waning gibbous moon rising in the east.

SpaceX launches communication satellite, ditches old booster

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with the SES-12 commercial communications satellite in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday. The rocket launched at 12:45 a.m. Monday morning with a satellite bound for geostationary orbit. A long exposure with a wide angle lens of the launch shows the rocket rising over the Cocoa Beach Pier in the foreground, and the waning gibbous moon rising in the east.

June 4, 2018, 9:36am Life

SpaceX has launched another satellite for a Luxembourg communication company. But it ditched the recycled booster in the Atlantic following liftoff. Read story

Katherine Johnson, the inspiration for the film, “Hidden Figures,” poses in the press room at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose calculations helped bring Apollo astronauts back to Earth, is being honored at her alma mater with a bronze statue and a scholarship in her time. West Virginia State University says a dedication ceremony is planned for Aug. 25, 2018, the day before Johnson’s 100th birthday.

NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson being honored in bronze

Katherine Johnson, the inspiration for the film, “Hidden Figures,” poses in the press room at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose calculations helped bring Apollo astronauts back to Earth, is being honored at her alma mater with a bronze statue and a scholarship in her time. West Virginia State University says a dedication ceremony is planned for Aug. 25, 2018, the day before Johnson’s 100th birthday.

June 4, 2018, 9:36am Life

Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose calculations helped astronauts return to Earth, is being honored at her alma mater with a bronze statue and a scholarship in her time. Read story