Michigan and parts of Wisconsin are in the midst of a historic flooding event in spring 2026. Days of heavy rainfall on top of snow have sent lakes and rivers over their banks and threatened several dams in both states, forcing people to evacuate homes downstream. By April 20, 2026, nearly half of Michigan’s counties were under a state of ...Read more

Three new properties, including two located along major rivers in the Central Valley and a former migrant farmworker camp near Bakersfield that was the inspiration for John Steinbeck’s classic novel “The Grapes of Wrath” will become new California state parks, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday.

In addition, California also will add ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles medical examiner has disclosed the official cause of death for video game developer Vince Zampella, who died in a fiery car crash in December.

Zampella, best known for co-creating the popular "Call of Duty" video game franchise and launching "Apex Legends" studio Respawn Entertainment, died of thermal injuries ...Read more

Each spring, birds across America are in full voice. Cardinals chatter, sparrows sing and warblers warble. Birdsong lifts the human spirit – “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers,” after all. Yet birds are not singing to soothe our nerves after a stressful day at the office. Instead, they sing to defend their territories and attract ...Read more

The biggest piece of rocketry needed for the next Artemis mission is headed to Florida.

While the base of the Space Launch System rocket’s core stage has been waiting at Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building since last summer, the top four-fifths of what will be a 212-foot-tall piece of hardware was loaded onto NASA’s Pegasus ...Read more

It has been eight years since “Tom Clancy’s The Division II” was released, and Ubisoft has supported it with tons of downloadable content, but fans have been waiting for a new chapter. That arrived last week, but it is on a platform that fans might not be expecting.

“Tom Clancy’s The Division Resurgence” is Ubisoft’s latest ...Read more

Seenda’s wireless CTU-30 keyboard/mouse combo kit and the MOU200 mouse are game changers for any computer workstation. All are loaded with features, including multi-paring.

The CTU-301 keyboard and mouse kit ($45.99) supports 2-device fast switching with auto-adaptation, which is great when you combine it with a feature I can no longer live...Read more

There was a lot of NASA and moon talk surrounding the recent Artemis II launch, and while that mission makes for great TV, there’s not much to see if you’re just looking up from your backyard.

Did you know that you can see the International Space Station with your naked eye as it orbits overhead?

My wife and I take great joy in running ...Read more

NASA had a tough decision to make after the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield came back with severe damage on the Artemis I mission: Stick with it at the possible risk of human lives, or replace it and face even more delays for Artemis II?

NASA opted to stick with it, confident any damage could be avoided by simply changing the trajectory of ...Read more

Four years ago, Mark Zuckerberg, feeling like the admiral of the good ship Meta Platforms Inc., sent a memo to employees encouraging them to refer to themselves by the nautical term “Metamates,” apparently to foster a sense of camaraderie and shared mission or something. Now he plans to spy on his own Metamates to help train the robots that ...Read more

When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more complex. Radioactive materials move, change and sometimes disappear faster than people expect.

The Chernobyl accident in 1986 and the Fukushima Daiichi accident in 2011 released radioactive materials into the air,...Read more

Many consumers – and state policymakers and even utility companies – are worried about the possibility of large numbers of data centers raising electricity demand and power prices.

Those are real concerns, but our engineering research finds that if designed, constructed and operated carefully, data centers can actually help the ...Read more

Florida’s Indian River Lagoon has been an ecosystem in decline going back to 2011, when harmful algal blooms led to a severe decline in seagrass, the foundational component of shallow coastal ecosystems.

Seagrass meadows stabilize sediments, improve water clarity and provide critical habitat and forage for species ranging from ...Read more

When Hurricane Michael, a Category 5 storm, tore through Florida’s Tyndall Air Force Base in 2018, it battered F-22 stealth fighter jets, destroyed hundreds of buildings and churned up 700,000 cubic yards of debris. The total cost of the damage approached $5 billion.

Now, Tyndall is being rebuilt as a super-resilient “installation of the ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Every few minutes, the quiet of a muggy spring evening in the Park Glen neighborhood in far north Fort Worth was broken by the clanging of pots, pans, air horns, and other noisemakers as residents looked skyward at unwanted guests.

These residents have gathered every night for the past few weeks to scare away migratory ...Read more

The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket following its Sunday launch from Cape Canaveral.

The rocket looked good on the way up, but the upper stage wasn’t able to put its payload into the correct orbit.

“The FAA is aware that Blue Origin New Glenn 3 experienced a mishap during the second-stage ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a rebuff of the Trump administration's push to restart oil pipelines off California's Central Coast, a state judge has ruled that a recent executive order does not override state regulations concerning oil operations.

It remains unclear exactly what effect the ruling may have on pipeline operator Sable Offshore Corp., which ...Read more