February 22, 2018, 6:04am Life
Pollution is threatening the recently mapped Sac Actun cave system in the Yucatan Peninsula, a vast underground network that experts in Mexico say could be the most important underwater archaeological site in the world. Read story
February 17, 2018, 6:00am Life
You’ve seen apps and toys that promise to teach your child to code. Now enter the robots. Read story
February 15, 2018, 6:03am Life
A bite from a venomous centipede can cause swelling and excruciating pain. And for a mouse - even one 15 times larger than a centipede - the bite can be deadly. Read story
February 15, 2018, 6:01am Life
The NASA spacecraft that gave us close-ups of Pluto has set a record for the farthest photos ever taken. Read story
February 14, 2018, 6:00am Life
How safe is it to eat snow? A Romanian university has published the results of just such a study. Read story
February 12, 2018, 11:55am Nation & World
The Trump administration wants NASA out of the International Space Station by 2025, and private businesses running the place instead. Read story
February 12, 2018, 6:04am Clark County News
A few years ago, scientists discovered that stormwater, a potentially toxic mixture of lawn fertilizers, brake-pad dust and other pollutants, can kill salmon. Read story
February 12, 2018, 6:02am Health
Dr. Google may not have much of a bedside manner — she’s an algorithm, after all — but if she says you’re soon to be “expired,” she claims to be about 95 percent accurate, and you might want to start planning that last meal. Read story
February 12, 2018, 5:25am Health Wire
Three times a week, Kristen Lundstrom opens her laptop from her home in Carroll, Iowa, and speaks to a speech therapist at UC Davis’ MIND Institute about ways to help her 14-year-old son, Tyson, grow his vocabulary and better communicate. Tyson has Fragile X Syndrome, which is a genetic condition… Read story
February 9, 2018, 6:02am Life
The two paleontologists dissolving rock cores more than 200 million years old were looking for freshwater algae. Instead, fragments of insect scales caught their eye — remnants that a report published recently in Science Advances identifies as the oldest evidence of butterflies and moths. Read story
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