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One Health concept may forecast new pandemics

May 24, 2022, 6:05am Life

A bout with flesh-eating bacteria can start out with a day at the beach, a hardly worrisome cut and then, in less than 24 hours, a raging infection fought with heavy antibiotics and gruesome scalpel work. Read story

Divers swim near the bow of the retired Naval Landing Ship Dock Spiegel Grove, sunk 20 years earlier, six miles off Key Largo, Fla., to become an artificial reef.

Keys to success: 20 years since Navy ship sunk for artificial reef in Florida

Divers swim near the bow of the retired Naval Landing Ship Dock Spiegel Grove, sunk 20 years earlier, six miles off Key Largo, Fla., to become an artificial reef.

May 24, 2022, 6:00am Life

The 20th anniversary of the storied intentional sinking of a former Naval ship to become an artificial reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is being celebrated in Key Largo. Read story

University of Michigan civil and environmental engineering professor Krista Wigginton applies human urine-derived fertilizer to beds of peonies May 9 at Nichols Arboretum in Ann Arbor, Mich. The "pee-cycling" effort is part of University of Michigan research that promotes human urine-based fertilizer as beneficial to the plants and to the environment.

‘Pee-cycling’ sustainable fertilizer alternative

University of Michigan civil and environmental engineering professor Krista Wigginton applies human urine-derived fertilizer to beds of peonies May 9 at Nichols Arboretum in Ann Arbor, Mich. The "pee-cycling" effort is part of University of Michigan research that promotes human urine-based fertilizer as beneficial to the plants and to the environment.

May 17, 2022, 6:05am Life

A pair of University of Michigan researchers are putting the “pee” in peony. Read story

A researcher harvests a thale cress plant growing in lunar soil, at a laboratory in Gainesville, Fla. For the first time, scientists have used lunar soil collected by long-ago moonwalkers to grow plants, with results promising enough that NASA and others already are envisioning hothouses on the moon for the next generation of lunar explorers.

Scientists grow plants in lunar dirt

A researcher harvests a thale cress plant growing in lunar soil, at a laboratory in Gainesville, Fla. For the first time, scientists have used lunar soil collected by long-ago moonwalkers to grow plants, with results promising enough that NASA and others already are envisioning hothouses on the moon for the next generation of lunar explorers.

May 17, 2022, 6:02am Life

For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts. Read story

A lunar eclipse is seen behind a cyclist during the first blood moon of the year, in Irwindale, Calif., Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W.

Lunar eclipse thrills stargazers

A lunar eclipse is seen behind a cyclist during the first blood moon of the year, in Irwindale, Calif., Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W.

May 16, 2022, 8:04pm Nation & World

A total lunar eclipse provided a spectacular celestial show as it unfolded Sunday night into early Monday in the Americas. Read story

FILE - Light shines from a total lunar eclipse over Santa Monica Beach in Santa Monica, Calif., Wednesday, May 26, 2021. A total lunar eclipse will grace the night skies this weekend, providing longer than usual thrills for stargazers across North and South America. The celestial action unfolds Sunday night, May 15, 2022 into early Monday morning, with the moon bathed in the reflected red and orange hues of Earth's sunsets and sunrises for about 1 1/2 hours, the longest totality of the decade. It will be the first so-called blood moon in a year.(AP Photo/Ringo H.W.

Moon blood red on weekend in ‘Eclipse for the Americas’

FILE - Light shines from a total lunar eclipse over Santa Monica Beach in Santa Monica, Calif., Wednesday, May 26, 2021. A total lunar eclipse will grace the night skies this weekend, providing longer than usual thrills for stargazers across North and South America. The celestial action unfolds Sunday night, May 15, 2022 into early Monday morning, with the moon bathed in the reflected red and orange hues of Earth's sunsets and sunrises for about 1 1/2 hours, the longest totality of the decade. It will be the first so-called blood moon in a year.(AP Photo/Ringo H.W.

May 13, 2022, 5:47pm Nation & World

A total lunar eclipse will grace the night skies this weekend, providing longer than usual thrills for stargazers across North and South America. Read story

This image released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Thursday, May 12, 2022, shows a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A*, near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations. It is 4 million times more massive than our sun. The image was made by eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world.

Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way’s huge black hole

This image released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Thursday, May 12, 2022, shows a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A*, near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations. It is 4 million times more massive than our sun. The image was made by eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world.

May 12, 2022, 8:10am Life

The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, with astronomers calling it a “gentle giant” on a near-starvation diet. Read story

In this photo supplied by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), a diver swims past coral on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, Oct. 18, 2016. More than 90% of Great Barrier Reef coral surveyed in 2022 was bleached in the fourth such mass event in seven years in the world's largest coral reef ecosystem, Australian government scientists said in its an annual report released late Tuesday, May 10, 2022. (M.

Most Great Barrier Reef coral studied this year was bleached

In this photo supplied by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), a diver swims past coral on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, Oct. 18, 2016. More than 90% of Great Barrier Reef coral surveyed in 2022 was bleached in the fourth such mass event in seven years in the world's largest coral reef ecosystem, Australian government scientists said in its an annual report released late Tuesday, May 10, 2022. (M.

May 11, 2022, 2:50pm Nation & World

More than 90% of Great Barrier Reef coral surveyed this year was bleached in the fourth such mass event in seven years in the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem, Australian government scientists said. Read story

This painting at the San Diego Natural History Museum shows what the Archeocyons canid, center, would have looked like during the Oligocene era in what's now San Diego.

Rare fossil of ancient dog species discovered

This painting at the San Diego Natural History Museum shows what the Archeocyons canid, center, would have looked like during the Oligocene era in what's now San Diego.

May 10, 2022, 6:05am Life

Sometime around 14,000 years ago, the first humans crossed the Bering Strait to North America with canines, domesticated dogs they used for hunting, by their side. Read story

August launch likely for NASA’s Artemis I

May 10, 2022, 6:02am Life

NASA officials gave an update Thursday on the status of the Artemis I moon rocket launch, saying it likely is targeting early to mid-June before it rolls back out to the launch pad for a wet dress rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center. Read story