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Ah, the beloved honeybee. They’re fuzzy and social. They make honey and beeswax. Children draw them and backyard beekeepers dote on them.

They dress in black, hang out in noisy groups and hold grudges if you tick them off. These aren’t members of an outlaw motorcycle gang. They’re crows hanging out in your yard, neighborhood parks and store parking lots.

SpaceX’s last two efforts to make progress on its Starship and Super Heavy rocket ended with streaks of debris hurtling across the sky. The Federal Aviation Administration, though, is now satisfied it’s safe for SpaceX to try again.

WASHINGTON – A labor union representing employees of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health rallied outside the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday, protesting the department’s efforts to close NIOSH offices dedicated to workplace safety for miners, wildland firefighters and other workers in Spokane and other cities.

Ed Smylie, who became a quiet hero of the space age in 1970 when he and his fellow NASA engineers jury-rigged an air filter that kept the three Apollo 13 astronauts alive after an onboard explosion sent them hurtling back to Earth, died April 21 at a hospice facility in Crossville, Tennessee. He was 95.

In 1954, Washington State University professor William Band bumped into George Duvall, considered the father of American shock wave science, at an industry get-together in Seattle.

America’s globally dominant position in scientific research could be jeopardized by the White House’s drastic proposed cuts to the National Science Foundation’s funding and staff, Sen. Maria Cantwell warned Monday at a round table with sector experts and engineers, including a WSU researcher focused on the integration of artificial intelligence in agriculture.

Something was very wrong with Kyle and Nicole Muldoon’s baby. The doctors speculated. Maybe it was meningitis? Maybe sepsis?

Federal research on mine safety will continue despite job cuts, including at a facility in Spokane, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at a Senate hearing Wednesday.

Our faces suggest our true age and even how much time we may have left on Earth.

The city of Spokane promised to simplify recycling 13 years ago, telling residents they could dump aluminum cans, plastics, newsprint, paper, cardboard boxes, wine bottles and more into one large blue bin and roll it to the curb on garbage day.

PARIS – As the Trump administration slashes support to research institutions and threatens to freeze federal funding to universities such as Harvard and Columbia, European leaders are offering help to U.S.-based researchers and hoping to benefit from what they are calling a “gigantic miscalculation.”

Turkey vultures have a major PR problem. Many people view them as black-feathered villains with menacing bone-colored beaks that skulk on tree branches and circle the skies waiting for animals and humans to die. But a growing body of research shows they are unaggressive, graceful and gentle. What’s more, they are nature’s ultimate clean-up crew.

Part of a spacecraft that launched in 1972 and has been orbiting Earth for 53 years is due to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in the next two weeks and could crash to the ground intact, scientists say.

The American robin has long signaled the arrival of spring, right up there with crocuses poking through dirt and frogs ribbiting at night.

After a successful test from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station last December, the Army on Thursday officially named its long-range hypersonic weapon “Dark Eagle.” The system designed to “disintegrate adversary capabilities” was at it again Friday morning.

A fossil from one of the largest dinosaurs to live in North America was discovered in a national park in Texas. In March, students from Sul Ross State University went to Big Bend National Park for research and to collect a dinosaur bone belonging to Alamosaurus, according to an April 8 news release from the university. The geology students were accompanied by Jesse Kelsch, an assistant ...

The Lyrid meteor shower - the second meteor shower on the calendar this year - runs through April 26, peaking on the night of April 21 to 22.