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MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — Four-time spaceflight veteran Peggy Whitson had a good excuse for not showing up Saturday for her own induction ceremony to the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.

She’s in quarantine to go to space again.

Whitson is slated to command the private Axiom Space Ax-4 mission flying in a new SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft set to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California lawmakers are taking aim at proposed rules to implement a state law aimed at curbing plastic waste, saying the draft regulations proposed by CalRecycle undermine the letter and intent of the legislation.

In a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom and two of his top administrators, the lawmakers said CalRecycle exceeded its ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It was bright and early and Axel Hunnicutt was howling.

He was looking for wolves. Sometimes they howl back, providing a sense of their location.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife this week reported there were three new wolf packs in the state’s far north. Hunnicutt, gray wolf coordinator for the agency, was ...Read more

DENVER — Concerningly low amounts of water are flowing from Rocky Mountain snowpack this spring, a summer of drought looms across swaths of the West, and the negotiators tasked with devising a sustainable long-term water plan for the 40 million people who rely on the Colorado River are running out of time.

Commissioners from the seven states ...Read more

“Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess” was one of Capcom’s more experimental games. The title mixed action-game elements with tower defense and real-time strategy to create a memorable experience as the swordsman Soh escorts the priestess Yoshiro through a mountain tainted with evil spirits.

The unusual amalgam of genres finds a home on ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump wants to tap the private sector to pave the way for human missions to Mars in a proposal that closely aligns with the goals of Elon Musk.

The White House’s 2026 budget proposal, released late on Friday, calls for allocating more than $1 billion for Mars exploration, including a new NASA initiative called the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — United Launch Alliance’s years-long delays with its new Vulcan rocket have flipped the script for national security missions, making SpaceX the new reliable provider.

The shift to Elon Musk’s company at the detriment to ULA’s bottom line took center stage again Friday with a SpaceX Falcon 9 launching the GPS III-7 ...Read more

LinkedIn, the professional social network where people search for work, is shedding jobs.

The Microsoft-owned tech company has cut 281 workers in California, a notice filed this week to the California Employment Development Department shows.

Earlier this month, Microsoft said that it was terminating 3% of staff, or about 6,000 workers. The ...Read more

United Launch Alliance’s years-long delays with its new Vulcan rocket have flipped the script for national security missions, making SpaceX the new reliable provider.

The shift to Elon Musk’s company at the detriment to ULA’s bottom line is on the pad again Friday with a SpaceX Falcon 9 set to launch the GPS III-7 mission from Cape ...Read more

Nine thousand years ago, humans began domesticating cats. Nine hundred years ago, before the advent of intentional cat breeding, a genetic mutation gave rise to the first orange cat. Days ago, Stanford Medicine researchers revealed exactly which gene created the fuzzy fodders for Garfield, Puss In Boots and Toulouse from "The Aristocats," to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As hot, dry and disastrous as the last few years have been, it appears that the chaos caused by a warming planet is just getting started.

Though the hottest year in nearly two centuries was recorded only last year, the world will probably shatter that record yet again by 2029, according to a new report from the World ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Just days after a Texas oil firm shocked California environmentalists and regulators by announcing the resumption of offshore oil production along the Santa Barbara County coast, a court has ordered the company to cease further construction or repairs until it obtains official approvals.

For months, Sable Offshore Corp. has ...Read more

Microsoft sees artificial intelligence transforming the internet as fundamentally as mobile phones have over the past two decades. But the technology's limitations could curb Microsoft's grand vision.

Generative AI — which creates content based on a user's request — burst into the zeitgeist in late 2022 when Microsoft-backed OpenAI launched...Read more

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang soothed investor fears about a China slowdown by delivering a solid sales forecast, saying that the AI computing market is still poised for “exponential growth.”

The company expects revenue of about $45 billion in the second fiscal quarter, which runs through July. New export restrictions ...Read more

Continuing a growing trend, three new wolf packs have been confirmed in Northern California, increasing the population of the charismatic and controversial predator to 78 now — up from 44 animals in 2023 and only 7 in 2020.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has named the new packs the Ishi pack in eastern Tehama County, the ...Read more

Colorado wolves’ territory now nears three of the state’s four borders as the apex predators continue to expand their territory across the Western Slope, a new map released by state wildlife officials shows.

At least one of Colorado’s collared wolves for the first time pushed into southwest Colorado, including in watersheds northeast of ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The day after losing another Starship during a test launch, SpaceX was back to its normal routine with a Falcon 9 launch from the Space Coast on Wednesday.

The workhorse rocket sent up another 27 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39-A at 9:30 a.m.

The first-stage booster made its 19th flight with a ...Read more

After Tennant figured out how to keep its plants open during the pandemic, it had a second problem to solve.

The company’s designers aren’t all in the same place. Neither are its customers, and sharing pen-and-paper designs isn’t easy on a video call.

Video game technology gave the company a way to move forward over Zoom, and it worked ...Read more

Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings is joining the board of San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company Anthropic.

Anthropic, valued at $61.5 billion after its most recent funding round in March, is known for its AI chatbot model Claude.

"Anthropic is very optimistic about the AI benefits for humanity, but is also very aware of the economic...Read more