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Biologist Ursula Bellugi, who helped establish authenticity of American Sign Language, dies at 91

April 22, 2022, 8:17am Nation & World

Ursula Bellugi, the Salk Institute neurobiologist who helped erase the stigma attached to American Sign Language by proving that it is a rich, authentic and nuanced way to communicate, died Sunday in La Jolla. She was 91. Read story

A wildlife team covers a young buck's head with a cloth to help calm it before testing the deer for the coronavirus and taking other biological samples in Grand Portage, Minn. on Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Scientists are concerned that the COVID-19 virus could evolve within animal populations - potentially spawning dangerous viral mutants that could jump back to people, spread among us and reignite what for now seems like a waning crisis.

Into the wild: Animals the latest frontier in COVID fight

A wildlife team covers a young buck's head with a cloth to help calm it before testing the deer for the coronavirus and taking other biological samples in Grand Portage, Minn. on Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Scientists are concerned that the COVID-19 virus could evolve within animal populations - potentially spawning dangerous viral mutants that could jump back to people, spread among us and reignite what for now seems like a waning crisis.

April 19, 2022, 6:05am Life

To administer this COVID test, Todd Kautz had to lie on his belly in the snow and worm his upper body into the narrow den of a hibernating black bear. Training a light on its snout, Kautz carefully slipped a long cotton swab into the bear’s nostrils five times. Read story

Crabs cross a road in Giron, Cuba, Sunday, April 10, 2022. Millions of crabs emerge at the beginning of the spring rains and start a journey to the waters of the Bay of Pigs to spawn in a yearly migration.

Cuba crabs embark on perilous migration to Bay of Pigs

Crabs cross a road in Giron, Cuba, Sunday, April 10, 2022. Millions of crabs emerge at the beginning of the spring rains and start a journey to the waters of the Bay of Pigs to spawn in a yearly migration.

April 19, 2022, 6:05am Life

Every year in Cuba, millions of crabs emerge from the forest at the beginning of the spring rains and head for the waters of the Bay of Pigs, crossing streets and highways on a perilous journey to mate and reproduce. Read story

Aquarium Of The Pacific President Dr. Jerry Schubel gathers his notes prior to a discussion on the El Nino weather phenomenon at the Aquarium Of The Pacific in Long Beach, California, while projecting images of the weather patterns on their Science On A Sphere exhibit, Nov. 13, 2014.

Creating online geography game Globle was relatively simple. Making it accurate is the real puzzle

Aquarium Of The Pacific President Dr. Jerry Schubel gathers his notes prior to a discussion on the El Nino weather phenomenon at the Aquarium Of The Pacific in Long Beach, California, while projecting images of the weather patterns on their Science On A Sphere exhibit, Nov. 13, 2014.

April 18, 2022, 6:02am Entertainment

The geography quiz game Globle was a product of quarantine boredom, its popularity a happy side effect. Read story

The Marathon Petroleum Refinery is seen in Reserve, La., Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. Last year, Congress pledged $3.5 billion to carbon capture and sequestration projects around the United States, which has been called the largest federal investment ever by advocates for the technology.

Battle over carbon capture as tool to fight climate change

The Marathon Petroleum Refinery is seen in Reserve, La., Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. Last year, Congress pledged $3.5 billion to carbon capture and sequestration projects around the United States, which has been called the largest federal investment ever by advocates for the technology.

April 18, 2022, 6:02am Nation & World

Polly Glover realized her son had asthma when he was nine months old. Now 26, he carries an inhaler in his pocket whenever he’s out and about in Prairieville, Louisiana, part of Ascension Parish. Read story

Charles Burdo (center), speaks with Rajeev Vaidyanathan, Ph.D, Director of U.S. Operations Oxitec, about the genetically engineered Aedes aegypti mosquitoes being released on June 9, 2021, Marathon, Florida.

The plan to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in California

Charles Burdo (center), speaks with Rajeev Vaidyanathan, Ph.D, Director of U.S. Operations Oxitec, about the genetically engineered Aedes aegypti mosquitoes being released on June 9, 2021, Marathon, Florida.

April 17, 2022, 12:12pm Nation & World

In the mosquito breeding rooms of British biotech company Oxitec, scientists line up fresh eggs, each the size of a grain of salt. Using microscopic needles, the white-coated researchers inject each egg with a dab of a proprietary synthetic DNA. Read story

A view of the Milky Way arching over Joshua trees at a park campground popular among stargazers in Joshua Tree National Park, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. (Allen J.

California Joshua tree is not threatened, regulators say. It could bring more development

A view of the Milky Way arching over Joshua trees at a park campground popular among stargazers in Joshua Tree National Park, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. (Allen J.

April 17, 2022, 9:16am Nation & World

State biologists on Wednesday recommended against designating the western Joshua tree as threatened with extinction, saying claims in a petition filed by environmentalists about the effects climate change will have on the living symbols of the California desert are premature. Read story

Feng Zhao, associate professor of electrical engineering at Washington State University Vancouver, holds up a glass slide containing silver electrodes and a thin film of honey on Wednesday at WSU Vancouver. Zhao and his students are trying to develop a honey-based neuromorphic computer chip that would be more energy efficient and environmentally friendly than current silicon-based chips.

WSU Vancouver professor, team research using honey to make advanced computer chips

Feng Zhao, associate professor of electrical engineering at Washington State University Vancouver, holds up a glass slide containing silver electrodes and a thin film of honey on Wednesday at WSU Vancouver. Zhao and his students are trying to develop a honey-based neuromorphic computer chip that would be more energy efficient and environmentally friendly than current silicon-based chips.

April 15, 2022, 6:02am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive

There’s a chance that a certain sweet ingredient in your cupboard could play a role in the future of computing. Read story

With Mount Edgecumbe in the background, a sea lion pops its head out of the water next to a buoy crowded with other sea lions in Sitka, Alaska on April 7, 2018. A swarm of hundreds of small earthquakes have been reported near Mount Edgecumbe volcano 15 miles west of Sitka, in southeast Alaska. The reason for the swarm is not known, officials at the Alaska Volcano Observatory said Wednesday, April 13, 2022.

Earthquakes recorded near Alaska volcano dormant 800 years

With Mount Edgecumbe in the background, a sea lion pops its head out of the water next to a buoy crowded with other sea lions in Sitka, Alaska on April 7, 2018. A swarm of hundreds of small earthquakes have been reported near Mount Edgecumbe volcano 15 miles west of Sitka, in southeast Alaska. The reason for the swarm is not known, officials at the Alaska Volcano Observatory said Wednesday, April 13, 2022.

April 13, 2022, 7:05pm Life

Hundreds of small earthquakes have been reported near a volcano in southeast Alaska believed to have been dormant for at least 800 years. Read story

FILE - Soncia King holds onto her husband, Patrick King, in Lake Charles, La., Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, as they walk through the flooded street to their home, after Hurricane Delta moved through the previous day. According to a study published in Nature Communications on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, climate change made the record-smashing deadly 2020 Atlantic hurricane season noticeably wetter.

Pouring it on: Climate change made 2020 hurricanes rainier

FILE - Soncia King holds onto her husband, Patrick King, in Lake Charles, La., Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, as they walk through the flooded street to their home, after Hurricane Delta moved through the previous day. According to a study published in Nature Communications on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, climate change made the record-smashing deadly 2020 Atlantic hurricane season noticeably wetter.

April 12, 2022, 8:40am Nation & World

Climate change made the record-smashing deadly 2020 Atlantic hurricane season noticeably wetter, a new study says. And it will likely make this season rainier, too, scientists said. Read story