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Surviving cold-stunned turtles wait to be examined at CMAST in Morehead City, N.C. The North Carolina State University Center for Marine Sciences and Technology took in 109 cold-stunned sea turtles from Cape Lookout on Jan. 21 but only 36 survived, the center said in a social media post this week.

Scores of North Carolina sea turtles die in cold

Surviving cold-stunned turtles wait to be examined at CMAST in Morehead City, N.C. The North Carolina State University Center for Marine Sciences and Technology took in 109 cold-stunned sea turtles from Cape Lookout on Jan. 21 but only 36 survived, the center said in a social media post this week.

January 29, 2024, 5:56am Life

Scores of sea turtles stunned by cold temperatures along the North Carolina coast have died, officials said. Read story

File - The iPhone 15 Pro is shown after its introduction on the Apple campus, Sept. 12, 2023, in Cupertino, Calif. Apple rolled out an update to its iOS operating system this week with a feature called Stolen Device Protection that makes it a lot harder for phone thieves to access key functions and settings. Users are being urged to turn it on immediately.

How To Tech: Why it’s important to turn on Apple’s new Stolen Device Protection

File - The iPhone 15 Pro is shown after its introduction on the Apple campus, Sept. 12, 2023, in Cupertino, Calif. Apple rolled out an update to its iOS operating system this week with a feature called Stolen Device Protection that makes it a lot harder for phone thieves to access key functions and settings. Users are being urged to turn it on immediately.

January 28, 2024, 6:02am Business

You’re in a crowded bar when a thief watches you unlock your iPhone with your passcode, then swipes it. That sinking feeling hits when you realize it’s gone, along with priceless photos, important files, passwords on banking apps and other vital parts of your digital life. Read story

Members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 from right to left, NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, mission specialist; Matthew Dominick, commander; Michael Barratt, pilot; and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, mission specialist; participate in the Crew Equipment Interface Test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Jan. 12.

Camas astronaut Barratt ready for takeoff in SpaceX mission to space station in February

Members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 from right to left, NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, mission specialist; Matthew Dominick, commander; Michael Barratt, pilot; and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, mission specialist; participate in the Crew Equipment Interface Test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Jan. 12.

January 25, 2024, 5:36pm Clark County News

Mike Barratt, Camas’ space explorer, is en route to orbit for the third time. Read story

FILE - In this image made available by NASA, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter hovers above the surface of the planet during its second flight on April 22, 2021. On Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, NASA announced that the 4-pound chopper can no longer fly because of rotor blade damage, and its mission is officially over.

NASA’s little helicopter on Mars has logged its last flight

FILE - In this image made available by NASA, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter hovers above the surface of the planet during its second flight on April 22, 2021. On Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, NASA announced that the 4-pound chopper can no longer fly because of rotor blade damage, and its mission is officially over.

January 25, 2024, 4:26pm Nation & World

NASA’s little Mars helicopter has flown its last flight. Read story

A wildlife care specialist holds Omeo, a koala joey, as he holds onto a stuffed panda bear at the San Diego Zoo on May 19, 2020. (K.C.

Koala DNA explored in order to better understand retrovirus

A wildlife care specialist holds Omeo, a koala joey, as he holds onto a stuffed panda bear at the San Diego Zoo on May 19, 2020. (K.C.

January 23, 2024, 5:58am Life

Two world-class institutions that call San Diego home have joined forces on an investigation into the DNA of koalas. Read story

The humanoid robot &ldquo;Alter&rdquo; is on display Aug. 1, 2016, at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo.

Humanoid robots are here, but do we really need them?

The humanoid robot &ldquo;Alter&rdquo; is on display Aug. 1, 2016, at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo.

January 23, 2024, 5:57am Life

Building a robot that’s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction. While the latest artificial intelligence craze has sparked another wave of investments in the quest to build a humanoid, most of the current prototypes are clumsy and impractical, looking better in staged… Read story

Alfonsino fish swim over a field of Lophelia pertusa in the massive reef discovered off the eastern U.S. Coast.

Deep-sea coral reef discovered, stretching 600 miles from Miami to Charleston, S.C.

Alfonsino fish swim over a field of Lophelia pertusa in the massive reef discovered off the eastern U.S. Coast.

January 22, 2024, 5:59am Life

The world’s largest deep-sea coral reef has been discovered off the East Coast: a massive 6.4 million-acre seascape that stretches from Miami to Charleston, S.C., according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ocean Exploration. Read story

&ldquo;How Pets Changed the World&rdquo;

Multiplied by billions: Clark County author connects kids’ lives to big environmental problems, solutions

&ldquo;How Pets Changed the World&rdquo;

January 20, 2024, 6:13am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

In a new series of six slim books for kids, Clark County author Stephanie Feldstein explores the industrial-scale, systemic sources of our personal, daily environmental impacts. Read story

Staff of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) prepare to watch a live streaming of the pinpoint moon landing operation by the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft at JAXA&rsquo;s Sagamihara Campus Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, in Sagamihara near Tokyo.

Japan became the fifth country to reach the moon after its spacecraft landed on the lunar surface

Staff of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) prepare to watch a live streaming of the pinpoint moon landing operation by the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft at JAXA&rsquo;s Sagamihara Campus Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, in Sagamihara near Tokyo.

January 19, 2024, 10:40am Latest News

As Japan’s space agency prepares for its first moon landing early Saturday, it’s aiming to hit a very small target. Read story

FILE - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload including two lunar rovers from Japan and the United Arab Emirates, lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Dec. 11, 2022. But later in April 2023, the spacecraft from a Japanese company apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon. Japan now hopes to make the world&rsquo;s first &ldquo;pinpoint landing&rdquo; on the moon early Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, joining a modern push for lunar contact with roots in the Cold War-era space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Japan joins an elite club by landing on the moon: A closer look

FILE - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload including two lunar rovers from Japan and the United Arab Emirates, lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Dec. 11, 2022. But later in April 2023, the spacecraft from a Japanese company apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon. Japan now hopes to make the world&rsquo;s first &ldquo;pinpoint landing&rdquo; on the moon early Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, joining a modern push for lunar contact with roots in the Cold War-era space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.

January 19, 2024, 7:45am Business

Japan hopes that it made the world's first “pinpoint landing” on the moon when its spacecraft touched down on the lunar surface on Saturday. Read story