Science & Technology

$A T. rex used its teeth like a jackhammer to fracture bone and get food other predators couldn’t access.$

Study: T-rex bite definitely much worse than its bark

$A T. rex used its teeth like a jackhammer to fracture bone and get food other predators couldn’t access.$

July 20, 2017, 6:01am Life

A dog, when gnawing on a favorite bone, slices it with its molars. If the pooch instead had a crocodile’s snout and gap teeth, crunching bones would be out of the question. But imagine, if you will, a croc-canine combo, one that is 40 feet long, 20 feet tall, walks… Read story

508 million-year-old fossil shows sea predator had remarkable mouth

July 19, 2017, 10:17pm Life

Half a billion years ago, a large creature named Tokummia katalepsis hunted prey along the ocean floor. Perhaps the sand worms knew to flee from the ominous shadow of Tokummia — massive for its time at almost four inches long. Read story

Lida Azizi, right, and other members of the Afghanistan team make a repair to their robot after their first round competing in the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge, Monday in Washington. The challenge is an international robotics event with teams from over 100 countries.

Afghan girls robotics team competes after visa obstacles

July 17, 2017, 11:40am Life

Their team shirts didn’t say “Afghanistan” and their name badges were handwritten, not typed, suggesting the last-minute nature of their entry into the United States. But the Afghan girls competing Monday in an international robotics competition in Washington were clearly excited to be representing their nation. Read story

Paul Simpson shows how his homemade blender bike works. The bike helps to make strawberry milkshakes at the Lemont Strawberry Festival each summer.

It’s a bike; it’s a blender; it’s healthy and tasty

July 17, 2017, 5:59am Health

There’s earning a drink at the end of the day, and then there’s earning a drink at the end of the day. Read story

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin speaks at the commemoration for the upcoming anniversary of the 1969 mission to the moon and a gala for his non-profit space education foundation, ShareSpace Foundation, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin rolls out the red carpet for Mars

July 16, 2017, 2:39pm Nation & World

Forty-eight years after he landed on the moon, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin on Saturday rolled out a red carpet for the red planet at a star-studded gala at the Kennedy Space Center. Read story

Trillion-ton iceberg breaks free of Antarctica

This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. A vast iceberg with twice the volume of Lake Erie has broken off from a key floating ice shelf in Antarctica, scientists said Wednesday July 12, 2017 . The iceberg broke off from the Larsen C ice shelf, scientists at the University of Swansea in Britain said. The iceberg, which is likely to be named A68, is described as weighing 1 trillion tons (1.12 trillion U.S.

July 12, 2017, 8:05am Latest News

One of the biggest icebergs ever recorded, a trillion-ton behemoth more than seven times the size of New York City, has broken off of Antarctica, triggering disagreement among scientists over whether global warming is to blame. Read story

Prime time (again) for Amazon

July 10, 2017, 6:05am Business

In October 1921, a group of candy companies in Cleveland announced, in exalted rhetoric, a new holiday. Sweetest Day was created to counter “the rush and whirl of present day life” so we could recognize our “tender feelings,” according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Read story