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Reintroduced Colorado wolf likely died after fight with another wolf, federal wildlife officials say
DENVER — One of Colorado’s reintroduced wolves likely died of wounds it suffered during a fight with another wolf, federal officials announced Thursday.
The wolf also had a healed gunshot wound on one of its hind legs, according to a statement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed the wolf’s death...Read more
Emissions from private jets are skyrocketing. Monitoring them is about to get much harder
Carbon dioxide emissions from private jets have increased by 46% in the last five years, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment.
The researchers analyzed over 26,000 airplanes and 18 million trips — representing most private flights between 2019 and 2023 — and found that more than ...Read more
After 2 scrubs, SpaceX knocks out Cape Canaveral launch
ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX managed Thursday to get off a Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral after scrubbing the launch twice earlier in the week.
A Falcon 9 carrying 23 of the internet satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 3:19 p.m. EST under cloudy skies.
Weather, though, was not a concern...Read more
After 2 scrubs, SpaceX will try again Thursday for Cape Canaveral launch
ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX will try again Thursday to get off a Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral after scrubbing the launch on Monday and Wednesday.
A Falcon 9 carrying 23 of the internet satellites is aiming for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 during a four-hour window Thursday that opens at 3:13 p....Read more
Climate change identified as main driver of worsening drought in the Western United States
LOS ANGELES — Humanity’s heating of the planet, driven by the burning of fossil fuels and unchecked emissions of greenhouse gases, has become the main driver of worsening droughts in California and the American West, according to new research.
A team of UCLA and NOAA scientists found that while droughts in the last century were caused ...Read more
Microplastics promote cloud formation, with likely effects on weather and climate
Clouds form when water vapor – an invisible gas in the atmosphere – sticks to tiny floating particles, such as dust, and turns into liquid water droplets or ice crystals. In a newly published study, we show that microplastic particles can have the same effects, producing ice crystals at temperatures 5 to 10 degrees Celsius (9 to 18 ...Read more
Despite its name, downtown LA's South Park is park-poor. That could change
LOS ANGELES — In downtown Los Angeles, parking lots are often placeholders, eventually giving rise to future development, but in the district known as South Park, one parking lot might just stay low.
Surrounded by residential towers, this ordinary patch of asphalt at 11th Street and South Grand Avenue, smaller than an ice-skating rink, may ...Read more
Biden administration sets stage for minimal second lease sale in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Biden administration on Wednesday issued a final environmental review for a second lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The administration also identified a preferred alternative for the sale that would offer 400,000 acres in the refuge’s coastal plane, the minimum acreage required by Congress for the ...Read more
Invasive fruit fly species puts parts of Southern California's Orange County under quarantine
LOS ANGELES — The cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove have been placed under quarantine Wednesday in light of an uninvited and unwelcome visitor: the oriental fruit fly, an invasive pest that attacks over 230 crops including fruits, nuts and vegetables.
The order by the California Department of Food and Agriculture bars fruit from within the...Read more
This SAP industry center uses artificial intelligence to streamline manufacturing
When Hurricane Helene damaged western North Carolina in September, filling medical facilities with people who couldn’t be cared for at home, Jim Polk, a tech executive at Exela Pharmaceutical Sciences in Lenoir, North Carolina, got a call from the Atrium Health hospital group in flooded Asheville. Could his company make intravenous saline bags...Read more
Bay Area loses hundreds more tech jobs as region's cutbacks persist
Fresh waves of layoffs are poised to eliminate the jobs of several hundred tech workers in the Bay Area, a disquieting series of setbacks that suggest the wobbly sector’s staffing reductions have yet to run their course.
The current cutbacks for the Bay Area tech industry are slated to eliminate more than 400 jobs, according to this news ...Read more
Gadgets: High-tech passport cover
Satechi's new Vegan-Leather Passport Cover with Find My technology allows it to be located with Apple's tracking system.
The pocket-sized case (5.6 by 4.2 by 0.7 inches, 3.7 ounces) has a slot for a passport, four credit cards and room for a boarding pass. But the technology inside makes the Satechi Passport Cover stand out, especially when ...Read more
Missing spooky season? Here are more video games to sate your appetite for horror
Although spooky season is over, the scares don’t have to stop. Players will find plenty of horror in video games year-round. In fact, some of the best titles this year have been horror games. Here’s a quick look at recent releases that have murder, mayhem and monsters.
“Call of Duty: Black Ops 6” — After a disappointing outing last ...Read more
Silent Hill 2 review: Bloober Team’s fantastic remake of a masterpiece
“There was a hole here. It’s gone now.”
The meaning of the words, a blood-red message spray-painted on a covered window in a deserted bar, has long been debated by fans of Konami’s 2001 seminal psychological survival horror game Silent Hill 2. More than two decades later, we’re no closer to understanding those unnerving words, but ...Read more
Jim Rossman: Take control of your photos with RAW
This week a friend and photo enthusiast asked a question, “I know a person who knows more about photography than me, and he says I might want to look into shooting RAW photos. I asked him why and I didn’t really understand his answer. What are RAW photos, and should I be taking them?”
To understand RAW, you also need to understand JPEG....Read more
Braving sharks and hordes of urchins, scientists are growing kelp one forest at a time
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly-needed boost to Northern California’s kelp forests—underwater cathedrals of green and gold that nearly vanished from the north coast a decade ago.
In early October,...Read more
Battlefields around the world are finding new purpose as parks and refuges
The horrors of war are all too familiar: lives lost, homes destroyed, entire communities forced to flee. Yet as time passes, places that once were sites of death and destruction can become peaceful natural refuges.
One of the deadliest battles fought on U.S. soil, for example, was the Battle of Gettysburg. Tens of thousands of men ...Read more
Are famous people more likely to die at 27, or does dying at 27 make them more famous?
LOS ANGELES — Their deaths have fueled the notion that 27 is a lethal age for musicians and other notable artists.
Amy Winehouse, the iconoclastic singer-songwriter, was that age when she died of alcohol poisoning in 2011. So was grunge rocker Kurt Cobain when he died of suicide in 1994 and rock 'n' roll queen Janis Joplin when she succumbed ...Read more
Rutgers has received $47.5 million to apply scientific discoveries to patient care
Rutgers University's Institute for Translational Medicine and Science has received a $47.5 million federal grant to develop practical applications for scientific discoveries, the university announced last week.
The funding will support the institute's work to bring the latest medical practices and research advancements to patients in the region...Read more
SpaceX launches space station resupply mission with sonic boom warning from booster return
ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX sent up 6,000 pounds of cargo on a resupply mission to the International Space Station on Monday night with the rocket booster’s return trip bringing a sonic boom to parts of Central Florida.
A Falcon 9 on the CRS-31 mission lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A at 9:29 p.m. EST.
The first-stage ...Read more
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- Microplastics promote cloud formation, with likely effects on weather and climate
- This SAP industry center uses artificial intelligence to streamline manufacturing
- After 2 scrubs, SpaceX will try again Thursday for Cape Canaveral launch
- Climate change identified as main driver of worsening drought in the Western United States
- Biden administration sets stage for minimal second lease sale in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge