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Capitol Hill roiled by sexual harassment claims - old and new

WASHINGTON – The ongoing deluge of sexual harassment allegations on Capitol Hill has put old claims – including those against President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton – in th...

DATE: Nov 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

NASA finds its target: Missing orbiter

Agency uses radio telescopes to locate India’s long-lost lunar probe after eight years

DATE: Mar 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hatcher the triceratops gets new look

Revised exhibit will offer updated view of dinosaur

DATE: Mar 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Water, water everywhere, even in space

Space probes finding H2O in unlikely places

DATE: Dec 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Science

How NASA is rehearsing for a mission to Mars

The Martian landscape is otherworldly. The ground is twisted into ropelike coils, rippling waves and jagged spikes; sulfurous gases billow from vents in the ground, bits of volcanic glass gl...

DATE: Dec 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bouncing back from extinction

Study shows recovering from geologic disaster can take long time

DATE: Nov 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Science

Cave drawings shed light on old mystery

Ancient paintings provide clues about European bison’s ancestor

DATE: Oct 22, 2016 | CATEGORY: Science

Earth’s moon may be causing quakes after all

The moon is really a lost piece of Earth, blasted away during a cataclysmic collision with another planet. For 4½ billion years, it has circled around us in a vast, cosmic dance. Though it’s...

DATE: Sep 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Science

Little mammoth skull raises some big questions

One thing is certain about the 13,000-year-old mammoth skull just excavated off the coast of California. “This mammoth find is extremely rare and of high scientific importance,” D...

DATE: Sep 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

This fish may be key puzzle piece to evolutionary transition

The fossils were found in a tangle in the 365-million-year-old Greenland rock: 20 sets of floppy limbs and fish tails thrown together by an ancient catastrophe. Paleontologists said the crea...

DATE: Sep 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Mice quarantine themselves when sick – a lesson for us all

In 1665, a bundle of cloth from London arrived at the door of the tailor for the village of Eyam, a tiny community in the midlands of England. Within a week, the tailor’s assistant was dead....

DATE: Aug 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Does reading fiction make you a better person?

Reading fiction can increase your empathy, help you understand others

DATE: Jul 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education