NASA officials have been shouting for years more money is needed to support infrastructure of a souped-up launch rate on Florida's Space Coast, and now it has an audit confirming things are bad, and could get worse.

NASA’s Office of the Inspector General released its report Monday on NASA launch infrastructure at Kennedy Space Center in ...Read more

California tech company Cisco plans to cut 471 workers in three Bay Area offices, according to layoff notices filed to a state agency.

The company, which provides networking devices along with other services including video conferencing and cybersecurity, told employees in May that it was going to cut fewer than 4,000 jobs or less than 5% of ...Read more

Germany’s Merck KGaA will buy Bio-Techne Corp. in a deal worth $11.3 billion, one of the largest acquisitions in Minnesota history.

The sale follows investor pressure on Minneapolis-based Bio-Techne, which makes lab materials and equipment used to develop drugs.

Bio-Techne’s stock had fallen nearly 50% in five years while Merck KGaA — ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In a blow to the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda, a federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to roll back soot pollution standards set in 2024.

The decision upholds the tightened National Ambient Air Quality Standards for small particulates, called PM2.5, set by former ...Read more

Anthropic PBC and the Trump administration are moving closer to an agreement that would lift U.S. restrictions on the company’s top two artificial intelligence models after weeks of talks between the two sides over security of the systems, according to people familiar with the matter.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is making progress ...Read more

Steve Otteson wasn’t planning to retire.

The 55-year-old software engineer had been working at Microsoft for almost three decades, and he figured he still had a few more years in him.

Then, this spring, the tech company made him a surprising offer: Quit and get nine months of pay.

Suddenly, Otteson found himself confronted with the choice ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Mosquitos carrying the West Nile virus have been detected in three metro counties and are the first samples of the insects carrying the disease to be found this year.

Mosquitos in Hennepin, Ramsey and Dakota counties tested positive for West Nile, which in mild cases can bring on a fever, headache and body aches, and ...Read more

Venezuela and its capital, Caracas, were rocked by two massive earthquake pulses on June 24, 2026, just seconds apart. The shaking from the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 events caused buildings to collapse in cities across the northern part of the country, killing more than 500 people and trapping many more.

University of Southern California ...Read more

DULUTH, Minn. — Donn Branstrator and his team pulled up the traps just offshore of the Duluth-Superior Harbor. There, in the nets, were dozens of tiny wriggling red-spotted shrimp, both male and female, some pregnant, some juvenile.

It was the first evidence that Hemimysis anomala, commonly known as bloody red shrimp, which is native to the ...Read more

The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of an upcoming powerful artificial intelligence model, according to a person familiar with the matter, nearly two weeks after rival Anthropic PBC suspended its most capable offerings from the market under regulatory pressure.

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman told ...Read more

BOSTON — Time to pull out the bug spray.

Bay State health officials have announced that West Nile virus was detected in mosquitoes for the first time this year.

The presence of WNV was confirmed by the Massachusetts State Public Health Laboratory in a mosquito sample collected in Clarksburg — out in Berkshire County.

The Department of ...Read more

It’s been just shy of a month since a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded on the pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, but the company announced all the debris has been cleared and reconstruction has begun.

“Quite a sight to see the progress this team has made since May 28,” CEO Dave Limp wrote on X with video of the ...Read more

DETROIT — The harmful algae bloom on Lake Erie will be moderate this year, similar to levels seen in 2022 and 2024, water quality scientists predicted Thursday.

Scientists from federal, Michigan and Ohio university labs presented their forecast for this summer's harmful algae bloom on Lake Erie from The Ohio State University's Stone Lab in ...Read more

When the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool turned green with algae just days after a US$15 million renovation, the U.S. government scrambled for chemicals and expensive technical solutions to fix the iconic landmark.

Trying to kill algae with chemicals is a common response when community ponds or other water features go green. But as a...Read more

Apple Inc. took the extreme measure of raising prices of all Macs, iPads, home devices and the Vision Pro on Thursday, seeking to offset cost hikes caused by an unprecedented shortage of memory chips and storage.

The price hikes, which went live on its online retail store Thursday, are in effect globally. The company did not raise iPhone, Apple...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Bob Blumenfield would like to see Angelenos’ old banana peels and moldy bread stay local.

The City Council member told a small crowd of waste advocates in front of City Hall this week that he was introducing a motion to reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by strengthening local composting infrastructure and decreasing...Read more

For about a decade, hundreds of deep-sea buoys off America’s coasts have been monitoring the conditions of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The streams of publicly available data they produce inform weather reports, generate valuable information about the planet’s changing climate and help the maritime industry and even the military maneuver...Read more

Drones could be a viable way to make transportation of potentially life-saving donated kidneys more efficient, according to a recent study conducted at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

On June 5, researchers had drones take human kidneys on two 15-minute flights in loops around NASA’s testing range beyond line-of-sight ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The U.S. Justice Department has reached a $450 million settlement with Chemours over the company’s release of “forever chemicals” in three states that exposed residents to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS.

The federal order announced Wednesday covers four Chemours facilities across West Virginia,...Read more

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, wants to “deliver personal superintelligence to everyone in the world.” And he’s calling on Qualcomm to help power it.

The San Diego chipmaker on Wednesday revealed Meta as its first major data center customer, announcing the partnership at an Investor Day event in New York City. The announcement is the ...Read more