NASA astronaut Mike Fincke announced Wednesday that it was his medical incident aboard the International Space Station in January that prompted the agency to return the SpaceX Crew-11 mission to Earth early.

“On Jan. 7, while aboard the International Space Station, I experienced a medical event that required immediate attention from my ...Read more

NASA has at least another 8 miles of terrestrial travel to accomplish before it can take on a 600,000-mile trip to space.

With a problem in the Artemis II rocket’s upper stage that cannot be fixed at the launch pad, NASA began to roll back the 11 million pounds of hardware from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B to the Vehicle Assembly ...Read more

There’s a funny thing about most wireless smartphone chargers: They need a wire. Often a cable connects the charging pad to its power source. Twelve South’s PowerBug 35-watt magnetic wireless charger is the first I’ve seen that is truly wireless.

Setup is simple: Plug it into any standard household AC outlet to turn it into a MagSafe ...Read more

BERLIN — "Tingus Goose - Weird Idle Game," a mobile and desktop game getting rave reviews on Apple's App Store, delivers on its name with a surreal mix of idle and puzzle mechanics, from bouncing babies that generate cash to finger-feathered geese and more.

It begins with a pregnant person in a hospital bed, someone holding their hand, both...Read more

Slowly but surely, “Monster Hunter Stories” has established itself as more than just a spin-off of Capcom’s famed action role-playing game. It has gone from a small project on the Nintendo 3DS to an ambitious Japanese RPG on the Nintendo Switch that punched above its weight.

Now in its third iteration, “Monster Hunter Stories 3: ...Read more

The cell phone world is divided into two camps – iPhone users and Android users.

Apple curates new features for iOS and Google develops for Android, and they likely don’t spend a ton of time worrying about how their phones interact with phones from the other company.

There are features that are exclusive to iOS or Android that work ...Read more

The Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down President Donald Trump’s global tariffs is shaking up the climate tech trade.

The Feb. 20 ruling is good news for companies like Tesla Inc., which have seen production costs soar since last spring. In the third quarter of 2025 alone, the tariff costs on its energy storage business stood at ...Read more

The cold weather didn’t delay SpaceX’s plans to launch another Starlink mission Tuesday, but did delay NASA’s plans to roll back the Artemis II rocket from the launch pad.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying 29 of its internet satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 6:04 p.m. Eastern time.

The ...Read more

What began as a straightforward question from one water-quality advocate has morphed into a high-stakes battle over an oil pipeline at the highest levels of the U.S. government – with implications that go far beyond the fate of a technical legal conflict.

The question arose after a 2010 Enbridge Energy oil spill in Michigan. The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California’s top air pollution authority as its board weighed a June proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances. But in reality, many of the messages that may have swayed the powerful regulatory agency to scrap the plan were generated by a ...Read more

The decline of California’s kelp forests since the marine heat wave of 2013-17 has seen only minor recovery despite heroic efforts at restoration carried out by scientists, fishermen, coastal tribes, volunteer divers and conservationists. Nor is the threat to kelp localized. Rather the loss, like the expansion of mega-wildfires on land from ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Yuba Water Agency and state officials reported encouraging water-quality test results following the large pipe rupture at the New Colgate Powerhouse in Yuba County.

In a Friday news release, the agency said samples collected downstream in the Yuba River and at Englebright Lake showed no “concerning results.”

The ...Read more

Editor’s note: Extreme cold weather can produce unusual phenomena, from so-called sea smoke to slushy ocean waves. As atmospheric scientist Scott Denning explains, these striking events are caused mainly by the behavior of water at very cold temperatures.

There are three phases, or states, of water: solid ice, liquid water and ...Read more

SpaceX padded the record for its most-flown rocket booster late Saturday with its 33rd trip to space.

A Falcon 9 flying 28 Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 10:47 p.m.

The first-stage booster first launched in June 2021 and has been the pace setter for SpaceX’s reusability ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Wendy Bohon approached a table at the California Geological Survey library in Sacramento and began to give Puck’s closing speech from William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Only this time, some of the speech was adapted to be about earthquakes. Once again, Bohon was making her worlds converge.

Bohon ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Hundreds of schools, child cares, parks and other care facilities around San Diego County are located near idle oil wells, which can emit toxic gases, a new study finds.

They’re among the nearly 4,500 wells statewide that an analysis of state data by the Center for Biological Diversity found are within 3,200 feet of such ...Read more

NASA is preparing to remove its massive moon rocket from its launchpad to fix a technical issue, delaying the agency’s much-anticipated mission to send a crew of four around the moon.

On Saturday, NASA announced that it planned to roll back the rocket, the Boeing-built Space Launch System, to its hangar at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to ...Read more

For years, people fishing along the banks of the White River that winds through Indianapolis were met by ominous signs warning about eating the fish they catch.

One of those risks was mercury poisoning.

Mercury is a neurotoxic metal that can cause irreparable harm to human health – especially the brain development of young ...Read more