From the air, Wainwright, Alaska, looks like a perfectly stable band of homes and roads between the Chukchi Sea and a vast, flat tundra. But just below the surface, the frozen ground that this town was built on contains large bodies of ice. Along the eroding coastal bluffs, that hidden ice is becoming exposed and literally melting away.

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In 2023, the International Energy Agency predicted that by 2028 the world’s oil companies would produce more oil than people wanted to buy. Prices responded to that and similar projections of slowing oil demand, dropping too low to attract investment for new wells and refineries.

No forecast anticipated that the Strait of Hormuz, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Somehow, a Gaboon viper — whose home is the tropics of central and western Africa — was on the loose Monday in a Southern California neighborhood, police say.

The sighting of the extremely venomous viper, which has the longest fangs of any snake in the world, spurred the Santa Ana Police Department to issue a public advisory...Read more

OpenAI on Tuesday apologized for its AI models breaching Australian government websites and promised to set up a new task force as part of reforms after the incident.

The San Francisco-based company said it will fund cyber defenses in Australia and help manage the risk of increasingly capable artificial intelligence, as it navigates the fallout...Read more

The global AI industry needs to earn $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify the capital being deployed to build data centers around the world, Bain & Co. said.

Existing consumer and enterprise AI services may generate as much as $1.8 trillion of that sum, leaving $4.2 trillion in new revenue that needs to be created, the consulting ...Read more

With SpaceX signaling it wants to sunset its crew Dragon spacecraft flights, NASA has reinvested its efforts to bring the beleaguered Boeing Starliner back in line with the agency’s needs to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station.

“Given our extensive history with Starliner and the taxpayer investment already made, we believe ...Read more

SpaceX launched its Starship and Super Heavy rocket on Monday morning and made it to orbit for the first time ever despite losing one of its engines on its trip up to space.

“Insertion. Starship is orbital,” was the callout from mission control during the company’s livestream followed by cheers from employees watching the event.

“Huge ...Read more

SpaceX launched its Starship and Super Heavy rocket on Monday morning and made it to orbit for the first time ever despite losing one of its engines on its trip up to space.

“Insertion. Starship is orbital,” was the callout from mission control during the company’s live stream followed by cheers from employees watching the event.

“Huge...Read more

SpaceX launched its Starship and Super Heavy rocket on Monday morning on what could be its first orbital flight ever.

Liftoff from the company’s Texas launch site Starbase of the heavy-lift rocket came at 8:46 a.m. EDT.

“Things are looking really good right now,” said SpaceX commentator Dan Huot.

The orbital attempt on what is the 14th ...Read more

A 25-year-old Philadelphia woman won the $300,000 first prize in a NASA competition to design food systems to improve how astronauts eat in space, and eventually how they will eat on Mars, the space agency announced Thursday.

Chinyere “Chichi” Ukeje, a native of Bowie, Md., now living with her husband in Northeast Philadelphia, submitted a ...Read more

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Are people on the South Pole walking upside down from the rest of the world? – Ralph P., U.S.

When I was standing at the South Pole, I felt the same way I feel anywhere on ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX has not launched from Florida since mid-September, but is planning two big missions on the same day next week with the launches of Crew-13 to the International Space Station and the NROL-97 mission on the powerhouse Falcon Heavy.

With both missions targeting Oct.1 liftoffs, it would also mark a first for the Space Coast...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — It was a bad year for Bogus Basin.

By New Year’s Eve, the Boise-area recreation area had received only about 2 feet of natural snowfall, forcing it to increase its production of artificial snow by 120% compared with the previous season. Amid high temperatures, most winter precipitation fell as rain instead of snow — and the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For years, Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner has been portrayed as the civilized way to travel to and from San Diego.

No gridlock on Interstate 5. Glorious views of the Pacific Ocean. Even the chance to grab a drink and relax.

But the iconic rail line connecting Orange County to San Diego is under threat thanks to coastal erosion —...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The White House this month issued an executive order to support the sportfishing industry by, among other things, paving the way for increased harvests of sharks and pinnipeds, including sea lions and seals.

The order specifically aims to help saltwater anglers, offshore boaters and charter operators — an industry in ...Read more

A federal appeals court in Washington rejected Anthropic PBC’s challenge to a Trump administration designation of the artificial intelligence company as a supply-chain risk to U.S. national security, but an earlier ruling by a judge in California that lifted a government ban appears to remain in place for now.

The 2-1 decision on Friday from ...Read more

A federal appeals court in Washington rejected Anthropic PBC’s challenge to a Trump administration designation of the artificial intelligence company as a supply-chain risk to U.S. national security, but an earlier ruling by a judge in California that lifted a government ban appears to remain in place for now.

The 2-1 decision on Friday from ...Read more

The people of northern Virginia have been living with data centers for many years. The area is home to the world’s largest concentration of data centers. In a survey we conducted, we found northern Virginians support development restrictions that could make data centers more transparent and accountable to the public. But they care about ...Read more

Anthropic PBC has signed an $11.6 billion, seven-year contract with Akamai Technologies Inc. for computing power, adding to the AI developer’s growing list of data center deals.

Akamai will supply Anthropic access to central processing units, or CPUs, a type of generalist chip that’s seen renewed demand in data centers where it’s helping ...Read more

A dolphin that was part of an international rescue effort to transfer 30 whales and four dolphins from a Canadian marine park has died at an aquarium in Spain, according to a statement. Four beluga whales also have died since the moves began in July, including one at the Spanish facility and three at the Shedd Aquarium. A fifth beluga that had ...Read more