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Fire damage to the area surrounding the Angel’s Rest trail in the Columbia River Gorge near Cascade Locks, Ore.

Researchers gain grant to study fire aftermath, regrowth

Fire damage to the area surrounding the Angel’s Rest trail in the Columbia River Gorge near Cascade Locks, Ore.

October 9, 2017, 7:43pm Clark County News

As wildfires dominate headlines in the Pacific Northwest and the rest of the American West, a Washington State University Vancouver researcher is seeking answers to unknown questions about a fire’s aftermath. Read story

The coal-fired Plant Scherer, one of the nation’s top carbon dioxide emitters, stands in the distance in Juliette, Ga. The Trump administration intends to roll back the centerpiece of former President Barack Obama’s efforts to slow global warming, seeking to ease restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.

EPA to rescind Obama plan to slow global warming

The coal-fired Plant Scherer, one of the nation’s top carbon dioxide emitters, stands in the distance in Juliette, Ga. The Trump administration intends to roll back the centerpiece of former President Barack Obama’s efforts to slow global warming, seeking to ease restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.

October 6, 2017, 8:41pm Nation & World

The Trump administration is moving to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s efforts to slow global warming, seeking to ease restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. Read story

An AOL logo is seen in the company’s office in Hamburg, Germany. AOL announced on Oct. 6, 2017, that it will discontinue its once-popular Instant Messenger platform on Dec.

Goodbye: AOL discontinuing pioneering Instant Messenger

An AOL logo is seen in the company’s office in Hamburg, Germany. AOL announced on Oct. 6, 2017, that it will discontinue its once-popular Instant Messenger platform on Dec.

October 6, 2017, 10:04am Life

AOL has announced that it is discontinuing its pioneering Instant Messenger chat platform after 20 years of service. Read story

A new study finds that plant-eating dinosaurs may have occasionally eaten crustaceans, too.

Dinos may have mixed up diet

A new study finds that plant-eating dinosaurs may have occasionally eaten crustaceans, too.

October 5, 2017, 5:22am Life

Think dinosaurs didn’t mix things up at mealtime? Think again. Researchers studying fossilized dinosaur feces from about 75 million years ago have discovered that at least some plant-eating dinosaurs also snacked on shellfish. Read story

Scientists: Shark fin bans may be bad for sharks

October 5, 2017, 5:22am Life

As lawmakers propose banning the sale of shark fins in the U.S., a pair of scientists is pushing back, saying the effort might actually harm attempts to conserve the marine predators. Read story

A Sputnik 1 test satellite, most likely manufactured by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and one of only two known to exist, is displayed at the Museum of Flight in Seattle on Oct. 2.

Declassified documents say U.S. knew Sputnik was soon to orbit

A Sputnik 1 test satellite, most likely manufactured by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and one of only two known to exist, is displayed at the Museum of Flight in Seattle on Oct. 2.

October 4, 2017, 10:47pm Life

News bulletin in 1957: Sputnik stuns the world. CIA in 2017: Not really. Read story

A Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket carrying Lomonosov, Aist-2D and SamSat-218 satellites lifts off from the launch pad April 28, 2016, at the new Vostochny Cosmodrome outside the city of Uglegorsk, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia. Six decades after Sputnik opened the space era, Russia has struggled to build up on its Soviet-era space achievements and space research now ranks very low among the Kremlin’s priorities.

60 years after Sputnik, Russian space program faces troubles

A Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket carrying Lomonosov, Aist-2D and SamSat-218 satellites lifts off from the launch pad April 28, 2016, at the new Vostochny Cosmodrome outside the city of Uglegorsk, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia. Six decades after Sputnik opened the space era, Russia has struggled to build up on its Soviet-era space achievements and space research now ranks very low among the Kremlin’s priorities.

October 4, 2017, 1:15pm Nation & World

Six decades after Sputnik, a refined version of the rocket that put the first artificial satellite in orbit remains the mainstay of Russia’s space program — a stunning tribute to the country’s technological prowess, but also a sign it has failed to build upon its achievements. Read story

Jenne Driggers, former Evergreen High student in the Hanford LIGO lab near the Tri-Cities.

Local grads with ties to research celebrate Nobel Prize for Physics

Jenne Driggers, former Evergreen High student in the Hanford LIGO lab near the Tri-Cities.

October 3, 2017, 10:15pm Clark County News

When three scientists made the breakthrough that earned them this year’s Nobel Physics Prize, a couple of former Clark County students were part of the team. Read story

Rainer Weiss poses for a photograph at his home, Tuesday in Newton, Mass. Weiss, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is one of three awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in physics for their discoveries in gravitational waves.

Einstein proof: Nobel winners find ripples in the universe

Rainer Weiss poses for a photograph at his home, Tuesday in Newton, Mass. Weiss, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is one of three awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in physics for their discoveries in gravitational waves.

October 3, 2017, 9:21am Nation & World

Three U.S.-based scientists won the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for detecting faint ripples flying through the universe — the gravitational waves predicted a century ago by Albert Einstein that provide a new understanding of the universe. Read story

Winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Medicine are displayed, from left, Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young, during a press conference in Stockholm, Monday. The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to the three Americans for discoveries about the body’s daily rhythms.

Biological clock discoveries by three Americans earn Nobel Prize

Winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Medicine are displayed, from left, Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young, during a press conference in Stockholm, Monday. The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to the three Americans for discoveries about the body’s daily rhythms.

October 2, 2017, 10:23pm Nation & World

Three Americans won a Nobel Prize on Monday for discovering key genetic “gears” of the body’s 24-hour biological clock, the mechanism best known for causing jet lag when it falls out of sync. Read story