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Erosion, floods make some final resting places not so final
Lisa Rathke, Associated Press | Posted Jan 22nd - 8:22am
When Revolutionary War soldier Josiah Clark was buried in a small Vermont cemetery near a river bank in 1835, it was supposed to be his final resting place.
Years after SARS, a more confident China faces a new virus
Yanan Wang, Associated Press | Posted Jan 22nd - 5:25am
As a viral outbreak spread from the central Chinese city of Wuhan this week, the ruling Communist Party's central political and legal affairs commission issued a stern warning: “Whoever deliberately delays and conceals reports will forever be nailed to history's pillar of shame.”
Science Says: What to know about the viral outbreak in China
The Associated Press | Posted Jan 21st - 10:24pm
severe acute respiratory syndrome — or MERS — Middle East respiratory syndrome.
Vivint Smart Home is now publicly trading on the stock market
Liesl Nielsen, KSL.com | Posted Jan 21st - 7:11pm
Utah tech giant Vivint Smart Home is now publicly trading on the New York Stock Exchange after a merger with special purpose acquisition company Mosaic.
7 sunscreen chemicals enter bloodstream after one use, FDA says, but don't abandon sun protection
Sandee Lamotte, CNN | Posted Jan 21st - 1:48pm
After a single application, a total of seven chemicals commonly found in sunscreens can be absorbed into the bloodstream at levels that exceed safety thresholds, according to studies by the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, an arm of the US Food and Drug Administration.
Science Says: What to know about the viral outbreak in China
The Associated Press | Posted Jan 21st - 10:53am
severe acute respiratory syndrome — or MERS — Middle East respiratory syndrome.
Alpine School District launches esports clubs at 5 schools
Ray Boone, KSL TV | Posted Jan 20th - 5:03pm
Some might call a bunch of kids gathered around a TV while holding controllers a “waste of time” while others might call it a “pointless way to rot your brain.”
Bosnian protesters hold anti-pollution protest in Sarajevo
Eldar Emric, Associated Press | Posted Jan 20th - 5:57am
Dozens of people on Monday gathered for a protest in Sarajevo because of dangerously high levels of air pollution in the past few weeks in the Bosnian capital.
Spacewalking astronauts wrap up battery improvements
Marcia Dunn, Associated Press | Posted Jan 20th - 5:05am
A pair of spacewalking astronauts successfully wrapped up battery improvements outside the International Space Station on Monday, completing a job begun last fall.
No astrovans for SpaceX, crews riding to rockets in Teslas
Marcia Dunn, Associated Press | Posted Jan 19th - 3:01pm
Astronauts launched by SpaceX in coming months will ride to their rockets in high fashion. Instead of using a retro-style astrovan, SpaceX crews will travel to the launch pad in Tesla sports cars.
SpaceX launches, destroys rocket in astronaut escape test
Marcia Dunn, Associated Press | Posted Jan 19th - 8:48am
SpaceX completed the last big test of its crew capsule before launching astronauts in the next few months, mimicking an emergency escape shortly after liftoff Sunday.
Clones help famous elm tree named Herbie live on, for now
David Sharp, Associated Press | Posted Jan 19th - 7:15am
A massive elm tree nicknamed Herbie is long gone, but it is going to live on, thanks to cloned trees that are being made available to the public.
China reports 17 new cases in viral pneumonia outbreak
Yanan Wang, Associated Press | Posted Jan 18th - 8:33pm
Seventeen more people in central China have been diagnosed with a new form of viral pneumonia that has killed two patients and placed other countries on alert as millions of Chinese travel for Lunar New Year holidays.
Fires set stage for irreversible forest losses in Australia
Matthew Brown and Christina Larson, Associated Press | Posted Jan 18th - 8:02pm
even rainforests and peat swamps caught fire, likely changing them forever.
Rough seas delay escape test for SpaceX crew capsule
Marcia Dunn, Associated Press | Posted Jan 18th - 7:53am
Rough seas prompted SpaceX on Saturday to delay the emergency escape test of its new crew capsule by a day.
Australia firefighters save world's only rare dinosaur trees
Rod McGuirk, Associated Press | Posted Jan 18th - 2:26am
Specialist firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday.
Brown University fundraiser with ties to Epstein resigns
The Associated Press | Posted Jan 22nd - 9:34am
A Brown University fundraising director has resigned, months after being placed on leave by the Ivy League school for his involvement in accepting donations from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, a Brown spokesman said.
Historian fears Stanford’s MLK collection not a priority
Associated Press | Posted Jan 21st - 1:46pm
A Stanford institute is home to copies of the most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, writings and manuscripts of Martin Luther King Jr. But the historian tasked with protecting the documents and other artifacts is anxious about what will become of them when he retires this year.
