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Papier-m&acirc;ch&eacute; butterflies made by local enthusiast Jeff Hill are on display this month at the Cascade Park Library branch.

Metamorphosis in mâché: Beauty and diversity of Southwest Washington butterflies sets fans’ hearts aflutter

Papier-m&acirc;ch&eacute; butterflies made by local enthusiast Jeff Hill are on display this month at the Cascade Park Library branch.

June 22, 2024, 6:12am Clark County Life

The butterfly species you raised in your grade school classroom and fed milkweed was a monarch butterfly. Read story

NASA again pushes plans for Boeing Starliner return to Earth

June 18, 2024, 3:58pm Nation & World

NASA wants more time to look at data related to problems with Boeing’s Starliner thrusters and helium leaks before letting a pair of NASA astronauts make their way back to Earth, again pushing back a planned return date from the International Space Station. Read story

Chickens stand in their cages at a farm in Iowa. In the United States, bird flu outbreaks have been reported at dozens of dairy cow farms and in more than 1,000 poultry flocks, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Bird flu not lethal to all animals

Chickens stand in their cages at a farm in Iowa. In the United States, bird flu outbreaks have been reported at dozens of dairy cow farms and in more than 1,000 poultry flocks, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

June 18, 2024, 6:03am Life

In the last two years, bird flu has been blamed for the deaths of millions of wild and domestic birds worldwide. It’s killed legions of seals and sea lions, wiped out mink farms, and dispatched cats, dogs, skunks, foxes and even a polar bear. Read story

A rare white buffalo calf, reportedly born in Yellowstone National Park&rsquo;s Lamar Valley, is shown on June 4. The birth fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times, according to members of the American Indian tribe who cautioned that it&rsquo;s also a warning that more must be done to protect the earth and its animals.

Genetic variation may have made bison white

A rare white buffalo calf, reportedly born in Yellowstone National Park&rsquo;s Lamar Valley, is shown on June 4. The birth fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times, according to members of the American Indian tribe who cautioned that it&rsquo;s also a warning that more must be done to protect the earth and its animals.

June 18, 2024, 6:03am Life

Photos of a white bison calf in Yellowstone National Park have generated excitement as well as questions: How does that happen? Read story

In this undated photo, an African elephant matriarch leads her calf away from danger in northern Kenya. A new study in Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution demonstrates that elephants respond to individual names, one of the few animal species known to do so.

Study finds elephants name each other

In this undated photo, an African elephant matriarch leads her calf away from danger in northern Kenya. A new study in Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution demonstrates that elephants respond to individual names, one of the few animal species known to do so.

June 18, 2024, 6:03am Life

African elephants call each other and respond to individual names — something that few wild animals do, according to research published June 10. Read story

Jared Isaacman, left, and Hayley Arceneaux prepare to head to a launchpad Sept. 15, 2021, for a launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. New research presents the largest set of information yet regarding how the human body reacts to spaceflight.

Researchers find no lasting effects from space trip

Jared Isaacman, left, and Hayley Arceneaux prepare to head to a launchpad Sept. 15, 2021, for a launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. New research presents the largest set of information yet regarding how the human body reacts to spaceflight.

June 18, 2024, 6:01am Life

Space tourists experience some of the same body changes as astronauts who spend months in orbit, according to new studies published recently. Read story

FILE - In this December 1968, file photo made available by NASA, Lt. Col. William A. Anders, Apollo 8 lunar module pilot, looks out of a window during the spaceflight. Retired Maj. Gen. Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic &ldquo;Earthrise&rdquo; photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday, June 7, 2024, when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.

Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders died of blunt-force injuries from a plane crash, coroner says

FILE - In this December 1968, file photo made available by NASA, Lt. Col. William A. Anders, Apollo 8 lunar module pilot, looks out of a window during the spaceflight. Retired Maj. Gen. Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic &ldquo;Earthrise&rdquo; photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday, June 7, 2024, when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.

June 13, 2024, 7:41am Life

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the Apollo 8 astronaut, died of multiple blunt-force injuries when the plane he was piloting last week crashed off the coast of Jones Island, officials said Wednesday. Read story

From left: Madison Morrison, 22, Andrew Palacio, 22, Michael Chacon, 22, and Leen Alfaoury, 21, are Johns Hopkins University seniors who created a noise-reducing leaf blower cap for their senior design project. The students have filed for a patent for the attachment, which has been picked up by Stanley Black &amp; Decker for manufacturing.

Students’ leaf blower cap reduces sound from devices, to hit stores in 2026

From left: Madison Morrison, 22, Andrew Palacio, 22, Michael Chacon, 22, and Leen Alfaoury, 21, are Johns Hopkins University seniors who created a noise-reducing leaf blower cap for their senior design project. The students have filed for a patent for the attachment, which has been picked up by Stanley Black &amp; Decker for manufacturing.

June 11, 2024, 6:02am Life

Nate Greene, an engineer at Stanley Black & Decker in Towson, Md., calls the innovation “extremely atypical.” Read story

Kent Hups, a science instructor at Northglenn High School, talks May 31 about how to identify dinosaurs by how many toes they had in Broomfield, Colo.

Today’s lesson: How to identify dinosaur footprints

Kent Hups, a science instructor at Northglenn High School, talks May 31 about how to identify dinosaurs by how many toes they had in Broomfield, Colo.

June 11, 2024, 5:58am Life

Past fields of yellow wildflowers, tall grass and prairie dog burrows, an Adams County geology teacher, four of his students and the Broomfield mayor huddled around the fossilized footprint of a horned dinosaur that roamed this land some 70 million years ago. “To have this in our own backyard,” Mayor… Read story

Mary Beth McCarthy, center, holds a Cicadapalooza shirt sold by Trayce Zimmermann at her self-described &ldquo;cicada chic&rdquo; apparel booth on May 25, at the Randolph Street Market in Chicago.

Cicadas go from bug to fad

Mary Beth McCarthy, center, holds a Cicadapalooza shirt sold by Trayce Zimmermann at her self-described &ldquo;cicada chic&rdquo; apparel booth on May 25, at the Randolph Street Market in Chicago.

June 8, 2024, 6:03am Life

Cicadas seem to be everywhere these days. Read story