LOS ANGELES -- It didn’t look like much. Five red and yellow cloth sails, strung up between streetlights in Exposition Park, bridging the road between the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and the Coliseum. But it was 103 degrees outside, and thousands of people were on the move, headed for Saturday’s USC Homecoming game.

The sails created ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Robots demonstrating dance moves made popular by the late entertainer Michael Jackson, mini-catapults sending plastic gourds soaring toward a cauldron, paper airplane competitions and ice cream frozen by liquid nitrogen were among the demonstrations on offer at the fifth annual University of Chicago South Side Science Festival.

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Federal wildlife managers euthanized 28,000 animals in California in 2025 and dispersed about 1 million more as part of a nationwide program meant to control invasive species and minimize danger to people, pets and livestock, new data shows.

The removals by a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture — which nationwide involved killing 2...Read more

The Trump administration is injecting more than $100 million into education programs for American researchers in STEM fields, as federal policies stanch the flow of foreign scientists to the U.S. and policymakers focus on an AI arms race with China.

The initiative, which President Donald Trump is set to announce at a White House summit on ...Read more

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY — Oyster grower Alex Lambert had one day’s notice that an algal bloom was heading toward his 4,000-basket farm. It could be years before scientists know why.

A local grower messaged Lambert on Sept. 17, telling him discolored water was spotted in nearby creeks with suspicion it could be harmful to sea life like his ...Read more

The guardrails OpenAI put in place to protect teens don't seem to be working, according to a new report.

Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute rated ChatGPT for Teens an "Unacceptable Risk" for children under 18 in a study published Wednesday. The media and technology watchdog organization urged OpenAI to pause marketing the product ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Marvel Unlimited, the company's digital comics subscription service, is shutting down after 19 years.

Marvel announced Monday that it is launching Marvel Comics, a new digital comics app that will house more than 35,000 current and classic titles featuring Spider-Man, the X-Men, Captain Marvel and more from its extensive library...Read more

The International Space Station got a little less crowded Wednesday as the four members of Crew-12 climbed aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom, undocked and headed back to Earth.

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway along with European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev had been on board the ...Read more

In a recently published op-ed extolling the lifesaving virtues of federally funded research at institutions such as Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Sen. Dave McCormick called for doubling funding for the National Institutes of Health.

Good luck with that.

The Pennsylvania Republican is certainly right about the human and material value ...Read more

This week a reader writes, “I have an annoying issue with my MacBook Pro. I recently installed MacOS 27 but the problem has existed for years. When I highlight an email and hit delete or use the trash can symbol nothing happens. I have to (leave) then go back to my inbox to make the email disappear. In addition, if I select an email to read,...Read more

The “Gears of War” franchise has never been afraid to lean into the horrors of war. At its core, it’s a war story, one of scars and trauma and the terrible things people do by choice and by necessity. But not until “Gears of War: E-Day,” the latest entry in the 20-year-old first-person shooter series, has horror itself been so ...Read more

The Anker Solix E10 Home Backup System is one of those things you hope you never need, but if the power goes out, you'll be glad you have it. It keeps the lights on, your refrigerator running, and your home warm in the winter or cool in the summer. It's the kind of peace of mind that's hard to put a price on until you actually need it.

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The Scott River, which flows out of mountain forests into a broad valley near the California-Oregon border, provides vital habitat for salmon that swim upstream from the ocean to spawn in the fall and winter.

But this year, portions of the river have been transformed into stretches of dry sand and gravel, while farmers have kept hayfields green...Read more

Tens of thousands of acres within Florida’s three national forests could be opened to new road construction and logging under a proposed rollback of protections from the Trump administration, further imperiling wildlife and plants already squeezed by overdevelopment, environmental advocacy groups warned Monday.

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A popular trail on North Carolina’s Bald Head Island has been closed due to “invasive yellow wasp” attacks on hikers, officials say.

The north side of the Bald Head Woods Reserve Trail will remain blocked at both ends until the nest can be eradicated, Bald Head Island officials said in an Oct. 2 news release. The south side of the trail ...Read more

With nearly eight months in space under their belt, the four members of Crew-12 are set to depart the International Space Station as early as Wednesday.

The quartet of NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...Read more

Over the past year and a half, a dozen states have embraced a new vision for solar power: small, cheap panels that can be hung from a balcony or porch, be plugged into a standard wall outlet and take a dent out of residents’ utility bills.

These systems, known as balcony solar or plug-in solar, are attractive because they can be installed ...Read more

The governor’s race and billionaire’s tax may have gotten more attention. But California voters — who have already begun receiving ballots in the mail for the Nov. 3 election — also will decide whether to keep in place or make changes to one of California’s most influential and contentious environmental laws.

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LOS ANGELES — In a city that was built on oil and remains home to over 2,000 active wells, zoning officials are considering a first: shutting down an oil production site.

Residents of the Jefferson Park neighborhood just south of the 10 Freeway have been fighting for more than decade to close the 32 closely-packed oil and gas wells at the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A slate of projects aimed at preserving the future of the iconic Joshua tree has been scrapped after the Trump administration blocked more than $25 million in funding for national parks this year.

The funding already had been secured for more than 130 agreements with outside partners that would have supported projects in ...Read more