SpaceX launched its 11th test flight of the powerful Starship and Super Heavy rocket from its Texas site Starbase on Monday as it moved ahead in its goals to achieve an operational rocket that could eventually launch from Florida.

Liftoff came at 7:23 p.m. EDT, looking for a repeat of the successful 10th test flight in August and avoiding the ...Read more

SpaceX is set to launch its 11th test flight of the powerful Starship and Super Heavy rocket from its Texas site Starbase on Monday as it moves ahead in its goals to achieve an operational rocket that could eventually launch from Florida.

The launch window opens at 7:15 p.m. Eastern time looking for a repeat of the successful 10th test flight ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A year after tech firm OpenAI roiled Hollywood with the release of its Sora AI video tool, Chief Executive Sam Altman was back — with a potentially groundbreaking update.

Unlike the generic images Sora could initially create, the new program allows users to upload videos of real people and put them into AI-generated ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a bill into law that aims to make artificial-intelligence-powered chatbots safer despite some pushback from the tech industry.

The legislation, Senate Bill 243, requires chatbot operators to have procedures to prevent the production of suicide or self-harm content and put in guardrails, such as ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — After both onshore and offshore weather headaches in the past week, SpaceX is back on Monday to try and finish up its third of three contracted launches of competitor Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites.

A Falcon 9 on the KF-3 mission was no match for torrents of rain across Florida late Thursday on its first launch window, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Despite the pistachio-colored glow and sulfurous odor, the Baltimore harbor continues to improve in water quality year after year — even if swimming right now isn’t advisable.

Officials from the Waterfront Partnership and City of Baltimore said Friday the annual Healthy Harbor Report Card shows significant improvement in water...Read more

A California physicist and Nobel laureate who laid the foundation for quantum computing isn't done working.

For the last 40 years, John Martinis has worked — mostly within California — to create the fastest computers ever built.

"It's kind of my professional dream to do this by the time I'm really too old to retire. I should retire now, ...Read more

Just as tree rings can tell us how old a tree is and the climate conditions it endured, bivalves like quahog clams and dog cockles can tell a story about the history of the ocean.

And they’re telling us we may be headed for a “tipping point,” according to a study led by the University of Exeter and published Oct. 3 in Science Advances.

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ORLANDO, Fla. – SpaceX is set to finish up its third of three contracted launches of competitor Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites on Thursday night.

A Falcon 9 on the KF-3 mission to launch 24 more of Amazon’s broadband internet satellites is set to lift off from Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39-A targeting 9:34 p.m. Eastern time ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — While Blue Origin was kept out of the Space Force’s latest round of national security missions, the government has opted to rely on Jeff Bezos’ company to build a new place to prep satellites for launch.

Space Systems Command announced Tuesday it had awarded to Blue Origin a $78.25 million contract to construct a space ...Read more

LOS ANGELES – Santa Catalina Island’s mule deer are back in the crosshairs.

This month, the California Island Conservancy announced a plan to rid the landscape of its entire nonnative deer population using contracted hunters, saying the animals increase the risk of wildfire.

Last year, the conservancy — which manages 88% of the island �...Read more

UC Berkeley professor Omar Yaghi, a Jordanian immigrant molded by the American public school system, reached the pinnacle of his field on Wednesday, sharing the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

After receiving the award for his work on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which have incalculable applications, Yaghi acknowledged the role his American ...Read more

To make life easier for people with a common bladder condition, Medtronic is digging in far away from urinary tract.

Treatment for urinary urge incontinence can require pads, absorbent underwear and medications that come with bothersome side effects. The Minnesota-run medtech firm’s tiny new implant, designed to help patients forget about ...Read more

If you’re scrolling through this story on a smartphone, you’re holding a product that harnesses one of the boldest investments the United States ever made into science.

In 1947, researchers at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, started this process by building the first working transistor. At the time, the so-called “semiconductor ...Read more

Security can't be overstated. It's critical, and a home security system is something people think they might not need, until it's needed and unfortunately too late.

The SimpliSafe home security system is precisely that, simple and safe. It's a complete system, which can be as simple as a single camera or expanded to every door, window and ...Read more

I received this email from a reader last week:“I have an IPhone XR, which has stopped ringing on incoming calls. (If someone calls), it goes immediately into voice mail. The call also does not show up on my Apple Watch and texts do not ring. I have done everything, including spending an hour on a chat with Apple (to no avail).

"I made ...Read more

A Palo Alto, California, lawyer with nearly a half-century of experience admitted to an Oakland federal judge this summer that legal cases he referenced in an important court filing didn’t actually exist and appeared to be products of artificial intelligence “hallucinations.”

Jack Russo, in a court filing, described the apparent AI ...Read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is allowing implementation of a 2024 hazardous air pollution rule that imposed new emission control and monitoring requirements on facilities like U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works, a few months after seeking to delay and rework it.

The hazardous air pollution rule called for fenceline monitoring for ...Read more