Three massive blazes in the San Francisco Bay Area grew slightly overnight, but their containment ticked up as crews arrived from out of state and over 14,000 firefighters fought two dozen major conflagrations across California. Authorities say California is in a "megafire era," with two of the state's largest-ever wildfires burning simultaneously and climate change blamed for blazes in...
Three massive blazes in the San Francisco Bay Area grew slightly overnight, but their containment ticked up as crews arrived from out of state and over 14,000 firefighters fought two dozen major conflagrations across California. Authorities say California is in a "megafire era," with two of the state's largest-ever wildfires burning simultaneously and climate change blamed for blazes in...
Marijuana could be legal in up to 40 states this year. Activist organizations oppose many at-work tests especially in non-safety-sensitive...
Boeing Co said on Tuesday it aims to redo its unmanned Starliner crew capsule flight test to the International Space Station (ISS) in December or January, depending on when it completes software and test hardware production development. If the test mission is successful, Boeing and NASA will fly Starliner's first crewed mission in summer 2021, with a post-certification mission roughly scheduled...
Researchers found the Somali sengi in the neighboring Republic of Dijbouti — where the mouse-size creature has been quietly...
A psychotherapist explains why 'cognitive distortions' can hold you back, and how to replace them with empowering...
The WHO said young adults may be passing the coronavirus to the elderly: "People in their 20s, 30s, and 40s are increasingly driving the...
Henry N. Williams' favorite movie-action sequence unfolds on a strip of glass just a few millimeters across.It's a cinematic showdown between two bacterial cells: Vibrio coralliilyticus, a large, rod-shaped marine microbe, and a petite pursuant, Halobacteriovorax, that has latched onto the bigger bacterium. The Vibrio, desperate to jettison its assailant, wriggles and whirls through a pool...
A parachutist completed the world's first jump from a solar-powered aircraft on Tuesday after the plane soared to a height of 1,520 metres (nearly 5,000 ft) over western Switzerland, Swiss organisers said. The two-seater prototype plane made the test flight in good weather and to promote renewable energy. Parachutist Raphael Domjan reached a speed of 150 kilometres per hour during his jump,...
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is back in school after a gap year in which she emerged as the voice of young people trying to save the planet from global warming and a thorn in the side of politicians she sees as dragging their heels over change. Thunberg, who sparked a global youth-led protest movement after striking outside the Swedish parliament in 2018, has spent the last year berating...
After a year off school to campaign on pressing for tougher action on curbing climate change, Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg says she's returning to class. In Sweden, high school-level classes are returning to classes this week. It wasn't clear which school Thunberg was...
Dr. Anthony Fauci said the "one thing you would not want to see with a vaccine" is authorizing its use before its been clinically proven to...
It's something like a modern-day chuckwalla, side-stepping sand dunes on an island in what now is Grand Canyon National Park. At that age, they'd be among the oldest tracks of animals that lay hard-shell eggs and the earliest evidence of vertebrate animals strolling in sand dunes, he wrote a research paper published this month. “I think my interpretations will hold up very well,” Rowland...