September 5, 2017, 6:05am Northwest
Volunteers at the Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site have unearthed another clue about the animal that came to rest on a hillside near Kennewick about 17,500 years ago. Read story
September 3, 2017, 6:05am Life
Days after his hometown of Port Aransas, Texas, was slammed by Hurricane Harvey, microbiologist Brett Baker finally got a status report on his third-floor laboratory at the University of Texas, Austin’s Marine Science Institute. Read story
September 1, 2017, 6:00am Life
Greenland’s ice cap holds beneath it 10 percent of the earth’s freshwater, enough to raise global sea levels by 20 feet. While there’s no doubt it is melting, scientists have little certainty about exactly what’s happening inside this 10,000-year-old ice roughly three time size of Texas. Read story
August 31, 2017, 6:05am Life
Antarctica has been having a rough time of it lately, you may have heard. Read story
August 31, 2017, 5:44am Life
Lightning — once one of nature’s biggest killers —is claiming far fewer lives in the United States, mostly because we’ve learned to get out of the way. Read story
August 30, 2017, 6:05am Life
In middle school, Junior Alvarado often struggled with multiplication and earned poor grades in math, so when he started his freshman year at Washington Leadership Academy, a charter high school in the nation’s capital, he fretted that he would lag behind. Read story
August 30, 2017, 6:05am Clark County News
As millions of people marveled at one of nature’s grandest spectacles last week, some of Toby Dittrich’s students were backstopping Einstein. Read story
August 29, 2017, 12:45pm Politics
By the time the rain stops, Harvey will have dumped about 1 million gallons of water for every man, woman and child in southeastern Texas — a soggy, record-breaking glimpse of the wet and wild future global warming could bring, scientists say. Read story
August 24, 2017, 9:03pm Clark County News
A hostage situation. A search-and-rescue mission. Someone trapped under rubble. These are all scenarios the Clark County Sheriff’s Office might now be assisted by an “eye in the sky.” Read story
August 24, 2017, 6:03am Life
Researchers at a top U.S. laboratory announced Tuesday that they have produced the highest resolution scan ever done of the inner workings of a fossilized tyrannosaur skull using neutron beams and high-energy X-rays, resulting in new clues that could help paleontologists piece together the evolutionary puzzle of the monstrous T.… Read story
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