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After two weeks, NASA restores contact with Voyager 2 spacecraft

August 4, 2023, 3:43pm Nation & World

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft was back chatting it up Friday after flight controllers corrected a mistake that had led to weeks of silence. Read story

‘Real life Barbenheimer’ in Tri-Cities asking ‘@Mattel Let’s see a nuclear engineer Barbie’

August 4, 2023, 7:51am Life

The woman who’s been called the “real life Barbenheimer” is visiting Richland this week. Read story

FILE - In this Aug. 4, 1977, photo provided by NASA, the "Sounds of Earth" record is mounted on the Voyager 2 spacecraft in the Safe-1 Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., prior to encapsulation in the protective shroud. After days of silence, NASA has heard from Voyager 2, more than 12 billion miles away in interstellar space. Flight controllers accidentally sent a wrong command nearly two weeks ago that tilted the spacecraft's antenna away from Earth and severed contact. The project manager said Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023 that the fact that the Deep Space Network has picked up a "heartbeat signal" means the 46-year-old craft is alive and operating.

NASA hears signal from Voyager 2 spacecraft after mistakenly cutting contact

FILE - In this Aug. 4, 1977, photo provided by NASA, the "Sounds of Earth" record is mounted on the Voyager 2 spacecraft in the Safe-1 Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., prior to encapsulation in the protective shroud. After days of silence, NASA has heard from Voyager 2, more than 12 billion miles away in interstellar space. Flight controllers accidentally sent a wrong command nearly two weeks ago that tilted the spacecraft's antenna away from Earth and severed contact. The project manager said Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023 that the fact that the Deep Space Network has picked up a "heartbeat signal" means the 46-year-old craft is alive and operating.

August 1, 2023, 8:03am Life

After days of silence, NASA has heard from Voyager 2 in interstellar space billions of miles away. Read story

Local shark researchers recently found that about 800 individual white sharks visited the waters off the Cape from 2015 to 2018.(Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries/TNS)

Cape Cod a shark hotspot

Local shark researchers recently found that about 800 individual white sharks visited the waters off the Cape from 2015 to 2018.(Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries/TNS)

August 1, 2023, 6:00am Life

A new population study of great white sharks off Cape Cod shows that the region is one of the largest white shark hotspots in the world, as the apex predators flock to the Cape to hunt seals. Read story

Debra Stewart feeds carrots to one of her horses at her home in Gray's Creek, N.C.

PFAS detected in blood of horses, dogs near N.C. factory

Debra Stewart feeds carrots to one of her horses at her home in Gray's Creek, N.C.

August 1, 2023, 6:00am Life

Debra Stewart walked toward a horse paddock with a bag of carrots in hand. Whisper, a splashed chocolate and white paint horse, met her at the fence. Read story

A reconstruction of a dinosaur being attacked by a mammal 125 million years ago. An unusual fossil from China suggests some early mammals may have hunted down dinosaur meat for dinner.

Dinos for dinner? Mammals may have hunted down dinosaurs for meals, rare fossil suggests

A reconstruction of a dinosaur being attacked by a mammal 125 million years ago. An unusual fossil from China suggests some early mammals may have hunted down dinosaur meat for dinner.

July 25, 2023, 6:00am Life

An unusual find in China suggests some early mammals may have hunted dinosaur for dinner. Read story

This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, shows the young planetary system PDS 70, nearly 400 light-years away from Earth.

Astronomers find evidence of 2 planets sharing same orbit around star

This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, shows the young planetary system PDS 70, nearly 400 light-years away from Earth.

July 25, 2023, 6:00am Life

Astronomers reported Wednesday the discovery of what could be two planets sharing the same orbit around their star. Read story

A bleached flower coral is seen on Thursday in the North Dry Rocks Reef off the coast of Key Largo, Fla. Some Florida Keys corals are losing their color weeks earlier in the summer than has been documented before, meaning they are under stress and their health is potentially endangered, federal scientists said.

Florida Keys coral reefs already losing color

A bleached flower coral is seen on Thursday in the North Dry Rocks Reef off the coast of Key Largo, Fla. Some Florida Keys corals are losing their color weeks earlier in the summer than has been documented before, meaning they are under stress and their health is potentially endangered, federal scientists said.

July 22, 2023, 10:00am Life

Some Florida Keys coral reefs are losing their color weeks earlier than normal this summer because of record-high water temperatures, meaning they are under stress and their health is potentially endangered, federal scientists said. Read story

Researchers are looking at everything from plant breeding to tech to prime landscapes for ways to reduce future water usage.

How researchers are developing drought-tolerant landscapes

Researchers are looking at everything from plant breeding to tech to prime landscapes for ways to reduce future water usage.

July 22, 2023, 6:05am Life

Flowers, shrubs, and grass are pretty to look at, but they can also transform outdoor spaces into something that feels like home. Read story

Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up an Apple iPhone at the MacWorld Conference on Jan. 9, 2007, in San Francisco.

First-gen iPhone fetches $190K — about 380 times its original price

Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up an Apple iPhone at the MacWorld Conference on Jan. 9, 2007, in San Francisco.

July 21, 2023, 6:09am Life

A first-generation iPhone has sold at auction for $190,373, almost 380 times its original price of $499 when the groundbreaking device went for sale in 2007. Read story