Kennewick Man set to receive Native American burial and other top stories.

• Kennewick Man set to receive Native American burial

  

  Beer in hand, 21-year-old Will Thomas bent down in the middle of the Columbia River to grab what he thought was a rock. “Look, Dave,” he reportedly told his friend Dave Deacy. It was 1996, and the college students were trying to sneak into a boat race near Kennewick, Washington. Their master plan, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, was to check out girls. “I found a head,” he joked. It wasn’t until after he lifted the skull out of the water that Thomas realized his jest wasn’t factually in..

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• Japanese Hitomi satellite deemed to be beyond repair

  

  Japanese Hitomi satellite deemed to be beyond repairPosted on April 29, 2016 by Laurel Kornfeld Artist’s concept of Hitomi, scoping out a black hole IMAGE: JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has suspended efforts to repair its malfunctioning Hitomi satellite launched on February 17, deeming it beyond repair.Hitomi was launched to study the X-rays emitted by black holes, dark matter, and galaxy clusters. X-rays cannot be studied from Earth because t..

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• These dozing 'dragons' could change how we think about sleep

  

  Am Australian bearded dragon (Stephan Junek/Max Planck Institute for Brain Research via Reuters) The dragon's eyes twitch under its lids. An electronic monitor hooked up to its brain shows activity spiking across it. Somewhere inside its reptilian subconscious, a dream may be playing out — of enjoying a satisfying meal or relaxing on a sun-baked stone. The dragon is sleeping, scientists say. Not just resting, the way fish and wasps and even amoebas do, but really, truly sleeping, the way hu..

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• Republicans warming up to climate change - The Courier

  

  Kentucky's two U.S. Senators, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, show no signs of evolving on their contrarian views of climate change. But across America, new polling shows their fellow Republicans' opinions may be thawing along with the polar ice cap.Expedition 46 flight engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency (ESA) shared this nighttime photograph with his social media followers on Jan. 25, 2016, writing, "Beautiful night pass over Italy, Alps and Mediterranean." (Photo: NASA)While just 4..

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• 'A Beautiful Planet': A 3D Film of Earth from Space

  

  The new IMAX documentary "A Beautiful Planet," filmed by astronauts on the International Space Station, illuminates life on the station and the beauty and fragility of the Earth it overlooks. The film, which will be shown in IMAX theaters on April 29, incorporates 15 months of footage from the space station, and offers a rare glimpse of Earth from afar as well as insight into the day-to-day activities of the crews that lived and worked on the station during that time. The film's narrati..

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• Large Hadron Collider Goes Offline After Critter Chews Up Power Cable

  

  The world’s most power scientific instrument, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — a 17-mile long particle smasher running under the Swiss-French border — went offline early Friday morning after a marten gnawed through a power cable, causing a short circuit. The furry little creature — adult males of the species weigh less than 4 pounds — met a more unfortunate end: it died.The beech marten, identified in a European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) document by its French name, fouine, enter..

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• From Space, Astronaut Tim Peake to Control Robot on Earth

  

  British astronaut Tim Peake is to control a robot on Earth from the International Space Station, currently in orbit at 16,775 miles per hour. The experiment, announced on Wednesday, will see Peake command a 154 kilogram robotic rover, nicknamed Bridget, around a sandpit in Stevenage, England. The sandpit simulates the surface on Mars, BBC News reported. According to the European Space Agency, the experiment will help to investigate “how humans interact with robotic systems and vehicles.” It ..

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• Strange comet may reveal clues about Earth's birth

  

  A new kind of comet that is nearly tailless has been discovered -- and the surprises don't stop there. The new comet recently returned from the edge of the solar system but may have originated much closer to the sun, scientists say. In fact, it may even reveal clues about the building blocks of Earth.Given the nearly tailless appearance of this new comet, the scientists named it a Manx object, after Manx cats, which are mostly tailless."I always tell my students that science is 99-percent hard ..

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