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In this image from video made available by NASA, astronaut Nicole Mann shows her dreamcatcher during an interview on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. The first Native American woman in space said Wednesday that she's overwhelmed by the beauty and delicacy of Mother Earth, and is channeling "positive energy" as her five-month mission gets underway.

First Native American woman in space awed by Mother Earth

In this image from video made available by NASA, astronaut Nicole Mann shows her dreamcatcher during an interview on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. The first Native American woman in space said Wednesday that she's overwhelmed by the beauty and delicacy of Mother Earth, and is channeling "positive energy" as her five-month mission gets underway.

October 25, 2022, 6:00am Life

The first Native American woman in space said Wednesday she is overwhelmed by the beauty and delicacy of Mother Earth, and is channeling “positive energy” as her five-month mission gets underway. Read story

FILE - A woman shows a pack with iodine tablets before distributing them to residents at a local school in case of a radiation leak in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. The war in Ukraine has heightened fears about nuclear exposure -- and interest in iodine pills that can help protect the body from some radiation.

How iodine tablets block effects of some nuclear radiation

FILE - A woman shows a pack with iodine tablets before distributing them to residents at a local school in case of a radiation leak in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. The war in Ukraine has heightened fears about nuclear exposure -- and interest in iodine pills that can help protect the body from some radiation.

October 25, 2022, 5:09am Life

The war in Ukraine has heightened fears about nuclear exposure — and interest in iodine pills that can help protect the body from some radiation. Read story

How do we know humans triggered warming?

October 24, 2022, 5:47pm Nation & World

Call it Law and Order: Climate Change. Scientists used detective work to pinpoint the prime suspect in Earth’s warming: us. Read story

First Native American woman in space awed by Mother Earth

October 19, 2022, 1:22pm Life

The first Native American woman in space said Wednesday she is overwhelmed by the beauty and delicacy of Mother Earth, and is channeling “positive energy” as her five-month mission gets underway. Read story

Raindrops accumulate on the web of an orb weaver spider.

Arachnids of Clark County worthy of appreciation

Raindrops accumulate on the web of an orb weaver spider.

October 18, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life

Although pest control companies may try to sell you their spider-elimination services, spiders themselves are nature’s pest control. Read story

FILE - This image captured by the United Arab Emirates' "Amal" ("Hope") probe shows the planet Mars on Feb. 10, 2021. Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms. That's according to French scientists who published their findings Monday, Oct. 10, 2022.

Mars may have housed underground microbes

FILE - This image captured by the United Arab Emirates' "Amal" ("Hope") probe shows the planet Mars on Feb. 10, 2021. Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms. That's according to French scientists who published their findings Monday, Oct. 10, 2022.

October 18, 2022, 6:00am Life

Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms, French scientists reported Oct. 10. Read story

NASA eyes night launch for Artemis

October 18, 2022, 5:52am Life

If NASA gets to finally ignite its massive candle for the Artemis I moon mission, it’s going to light up the night skies across Florida with three November launch dates that all fall after midnight targeted for liftoff from Kennedy Space Center. Read story

Robots from different teams compete during the 6th edition of the First Global Robotics Challenge in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022.

Teens tackle 21st-century challenges at robotics contest

Robots from different teams compete during the 6th edition of the First Global Robotics Challenge in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022.

October 16, 2022, 2:58pm Nation & World

For their first trip to a celebrated robotics contest for high school students from scores of countries, a team of Ukrainian teens had a problem. Read story

In this image from video made available by NASA, the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom capsule approaches surface of the Atlantic Ocean off Florida for splashdown on a return trip from the International Space Station on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022.

SpaceX ferries astronauts back to Earth after half-year away

In this image from video made available by NASA, the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom capsule approaches surface of the Atlantic Ocean off Florida for splashdown on a return trip from the International Space Station on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022.

October 14, 2022, 3:39pm Nation & World

Four astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule Friday, ending their nearly six-month space station mission with a splashdown in the Atlantic off Florida. Read story

In this image made from a NASA livestream and taken from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, asteroid Dimorphos is seen as the spacecraft flies toward it, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022.

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge

In this image made from a NASA livestream and taken from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, asteroid Dimorphos is seen as the spacecraft flies toward it, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022.

October 11, 2022, 1:14pm Latest News

A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test. Read story