BEIJING — China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover has been retired after 31 months of collecting data from the moon’s surface.
The rover arrived on the moon on Dec. 14, 2013, along with the Chang’e 3 lunar lander and had originally been designed to operate for just three months.
HOLMDEL, N.J.—It’s one of the most universal recommendations in all of public health: Floss daily to prevent gum disease and cavities.
Except there’s little proof that flossing works.
Still, the federal government, dental organizations and manufacturers of floss have pushed the practice for decades.
TOKYO—Japanese Olympic gymnast Kohei Uchimura may be a record six-time world champion, but he won’t be encountering much success in his “Pokémon Go” efforts after running up a huge roaming bill in Rio.
Uchimura was stunned to receive a 500,000 yen ($4,900) mobile phone bill after playing the popular augmented-reality game, Kyodo news agency reported today.
HOUSTON—Marcus Stroman pieced together his best performance of the season last night.
However, his offence didn’t support him, striking out 22 times.
Carlos Correa’s RBI double in the 14th inning gave the Houston Astros a 2-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays last night.
Stroman gave up one run and three hits, while striking out a career high 13 and walking one.
LONG POND, Pa.—Chris Buescher emerged from the fog to become a surprising winner in yesterday’s shortened Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway.
He is now on the verge of being in the mix for NASCAR’s championship after not finishing better than 14th all season before yesterday.
“The plan was to always make the Chase,” Buescher said. “We’re that much closer now.”
BERLIN — Scientists say that one of the last surviving populations of woolly mammoths was likely driven to extinction by lack of drinking water.
Mammoths lived on Alaska’s St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea until about 5,600 years ago. They never came into contact with humans, who only arrived on the island in 1787.
MINNEAPOLIS—Rookie Max Kepler continued to show promise for the future of the Minnesota Twins, though the present-day struggles led to one member of the team being traded away.
Kepler continued his mid-season surge with a game-tying home run among two hits and two RBIs as the Minnesota rallied to beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-2 last night.
STOCKHOLM — She was off duty and wearing a bikini but that didn’t stop Swedish police officer Mikaela Kellner from catching a suspected thief.
A photo of Kellner pinning the suspect to the ground was trending on social media in Sweden this week.
“My first intervention while wearing a bikini during my 11 years as a police officer,” she wrote on Instagram.
SEATTLE—University of Washington biology professor Adam Summers no longer has to coax hospital staff to use their CT scanners so he can visualize the inner structures of sting ray and other fish.
WASHINGTON—Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yesterday encouraged Russia to meddle in American politics with a stunning recommendation to uncover and make public hacked e-mails that might damage his opponent, Hillary Clinton.
