ORLANDO, Fla. — The four members of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission are back on Earth after a record time in space completing their mission with a splashdown aboard the Crew Dragon Endeavour early Friday off the coast of Florida.

After a nearly eight-month stay on board the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael ...Read more

An Australian mining company’s lithium-boron mine in Nevada passed all environmental hurdles on Thursday, and an environmental group immediately notified the federal government that it plans to sue.

In a letter to Interior Department officials, the Center for Biological Diversity announced its intention to file a lawsuit, calling the mine an ...Read more

An Australian mining company’s lithium-boron mine in Nevada passed all environmental hurdles on Thursday, and an environmental group immediately notified the federal government that it plans to sue.

In a letter to Interior Department officials, the Center for Biological Diversity announced its intention to file a lawsuit, calling the mine an ...Read more

The groundbreaking discovery of a 66-million-year-old dinosaur continues to reveal itself years after a piece of it was first spotted, Missouri researchers said.

A South Dakota rancher found the tip of the triceratops’ horn while fixing a fence in the Badlands in 2019, and since then researchers from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, ...Read more

Legislative momentum against PFAS has surged this year, as at least 11 states enacted laws to restrict the use of “forever chemicals” in everyday consumer products or professional firefighting foam.

The legislation includes bans on PFAS in apparel, cleaning products, cookware, and cosmetic and menstrual products. Meanwhile, lawmakers in ...Read more

LA JOLLA, Calif. -- La Jolla’s coastline is being conquered.

Its colonizers have made their home in the seaside neighborhood’s rocks, terraces, beaches and caves. They make their presence known by barking and wailing all day and night. And they absolutely reek.

They’re sea lions — and they’re here to stay.

Unlike harbor seals, which...Read more

"Until Dawn" is an all-time favorite of mine. The mix of cheesy teen horror, intense life-or-death sequences and generally impressive graphics, all bound by a bloody will-they-or-won’t-they-survive branching story in which your choices actually matter, just delights my inner scream king. The 2015 PlayStation 4 exclusive was a prime example ...Read more

SANTA CLARA, California — Intel plans to chop another 500 jobs in the Bay Area in a fresh round of staffing reductions that reveal the local impact of the massive worldwide cutbacks that the tech titan has orchestrated.

The company has decided to eliminate 516 jobs in Santa Clara, Intel reported via an official WARN letter that the company ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Space Coast saw its 72nd launch of the year on Wednesday evening, equaling the total number of orbital missions flown in 2023 and with 10 weeks still to go.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 had been aiming for a Tuesday liftoff, but weather in the recovery area for the booster forced a scrub.

Teams turned around and got the rocket off ...Read more

Brazil’s efforts to slow deforestation are encouraging, but political swings have made it tough to get the investment needed to protect the Amazon, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said.

Satellite systems now do a very good job at measuring forest destruction, Gates said during a virtual interview at the Bloomberg New Economy at B20 in ...Read more

The 2024 U.S. presidential campaign has featured some notable deepfakes — AI-powered impersonations of candidates that sought to mislead voters or demean the candidates being targeted. Thanks to Elon Musk's retweet, one of those deepfakes has been viewed more than 143 million times.

The prospect of unscrupulous campaigns or foreign ...Read more

One of the quirks about “The Legend of Zelda” franchise is that the protagonist’s name isn’t in the title. Princess Zelda is the damsel in distress, the person who has to be rescued, but over several iterations, Nintendo has fleshed out her character and she has undergone several transformations through the years.

Meanwhile, Link has ...Read more

The KeyBudz Covert Mount for AirTag is a heavy-duty mount for Apple AirTag accessories. If you're not familiar with an AirTag, it's a small, inexpensive tracking device made by Apple. The Apple Find My app can tell you the location of the AirTag.

With the KeyBudz, the AirTag sits inside, adding a layer of durability. It is perfect for active ...Read more

"Until Dawn" is an all-time favorite of mine. The mix of cheesy teen horror, intense life-or-death sequences and generally impressive graphics, all bound by a bloody will-they-or-won’t-they-survive branching story in which your choices actually matter, just delights my inner scream king. The 2015 PlayStation 4 exclusive was a prime example ...Read more

I had to help a friend with his computer over the weekend. It seems his PC forgot he had Adobe Acrobat installed and instead it was opening PDF files in Google Chrome.

I wasn’t quite sure how his default app for opening PDF files changed to Chrome, but I did know how to switch things back so they open in Acrobat.

In Windows, if you right ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For more than a week straight, photographers, scientists and adventure seekers alike have captured dazzling images of an electric blue light emitting from Southern California's waves at night.

The display of bioluminescence, created when a type of algae is agitated, is difficult to forecast, but over the last nine days, ...Read more

The weeks around Halloween in California usually bring cooler weather, Christmas decorations appearing in stores, leaves to rake and umbrellas opening for the first time since spring.

So far this year it’s still dry. No major rain is forecast through the end of October. But that doesn’t mean the state is heading for water shortages. Because...Read more

Scientists announced a rare bit of good news Tuesday for North Atlantic right whales, the most critically endangered large whale species on the planet.

An annual population estimate found the whales numbers increased slightly last year to 372, up from 358 in 2020, according to the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium.

The consortium, a ...Read more