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SleepScore Labs, a spin out of ResMed, hopes to build the ecosystem around accurate sleep monitoring centered on ResMed's S+ in-home, non-contact tracking device.

Tech companies waking up to tools to improve sleep

January 22, 2017, 6:00am Business

Do you believe drinking coffee is keeping you up at night? It’s not — as long as you’re consuming less than four cups per day. Read story

Volunteers get bitten to test new strategy for malaria vaccine

January 19, 2017, 6:05am Life

Researchers infected lab mosquitoes with genetically weakened malaria parasites, and then recruited volunteers willing to be bitten — a lot — to test a possible new strategy for a vaccine. Read story

Trump’s hairstyle inspires name for newly found moth

January 19, 2017, 6:04am Life

In an article published in the journal ZooKeys, Vazrick Nazari explains in pretty clear terms how a new species of moth got its name. Read story

Environmental Protection Agency administrator-designate, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, testifies at his confirmation hearing.

EPA nominee says climate change real

January 18, 2017, 6:44pm Nation & World

Donald Trump’s choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that climate change is real, breaking with both the president-elect and his own past statements. Read story

In this image provided by Karin van der Wiel/NOAA/Princeton University, shows climate change effects on patterns of mild weather. A new study said Earth will have four fewer days of mild and mostly dry weather by 2035 and ten fewer of them by the end of the century, according to a first-of-its-kind projection of nice weather.

Earth to have fewer mild days by 2100

January 18, 2017, 12:01am Nation & World

Global warming is going to steal away some of those postcard-perfect weather days in the future, according to a first-of-its-kind projection of nice weather. Read story

Gene Cernan, last astronaut on the moon, dies at 82

January 16, 2017, 1:12pm Life

Former astronaut Gene Cernan, the last of only a dozen men to walk on the moon who returned to Earth with a message of "peace and hope for all mankind," has died. He was 82. Read story

Report: Moon may have formed from many small ones

January 15, 2017, 6:03am Life

A series of cosmic collisions may have spawned multiple moonlets that morphed into the one big moon we know today. Read story

Mary Wood attends the 17th annual Nez Perce Chief Redheart Memorial Ceremony at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in April 2014. Wood created a legal argument called atmospheric trust litigation that is being used by children to sue some state governments and the federal government over climate change.

Law professor’s work key in kids’ climate change suits

January 10, 2017, 6:02am Clark County News

Six days before Christmas, a King County judge cleared the path for eight Seattle children to go to court to argue the state violated their constitutional rights and the public trust doctrine by not doing enough to address climate change. Read story

U.S. had near-record heat, costly weather disasters in 2016

January 9, 2017, 8:39pm Nation & World

With steamy nights, sticky days and torrential downpours, last year went down as one of the warmest and wildest weather years on record in the United States. Read story