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Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief.

Forty years ago Space Shuttle Challenger climbed into the clear amid blue skies over Cape Canaveral. The nation’s youth watched on TVs across the nation and from school playgrounds across Central Florida.

Christa McAuliffe was ...Read more

One llama is sprawled on the grass with its neck craned, basking in a patch of sunshine. Another stands on a dirt hill, ears flattened defiantly. A third rushes to greet visitors with a friendly nuzzle.

This isn’t a petting zoo. The furry beasts are in Belgium for work.

Scientists have discovered the potential of the animals’ antibodies ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — With frustrating meetings on a near-daily basis, the seven states that share the Colorado River are scrambling to deliver any semblance of an agreement as they gear up for a high-profile discussion with the Trump administration next week.

About 40 million people — and economically vital farms — in the American West rely on the...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Andrew Marshall has ruffled some feathers in his volunteer role caring for Lake Eola’s swans. Now, following the deaths of dozens of those swans over the past month, he’s demanding more be done to protect them.

A petition he started after an avian flu outbreak erupted in late December urges the city to create a full ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Trump administration on Friday gave its approval for plans to build Sites Reservoir, a vast 13-mile-long off-stream lake north of Sacramento that would provide water to 500,000 acres of Central Valley farmland and 24 million people, including residents of Santa Clara County, parts of the East Bay and Los Angeles.

The U....Read more

The last time the Seahawks hosted the NFC Championship Game in 2015, Seattle was a much different city and Lumen Field was a different stadium.

To be sure, to the untrained eye the Sodo gridiron doesn't look much different from the CenturyLink Field days. But 11 years brings change for both the fans' experience and their expectations. Among the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For more than a year, a Texas oil firm has clashed with California officials over controversial plans to restart offshore oil operations along the Santa Barbara County coast.

Now, California’s feud with Sable Offshore Corp. has spread to the Trump administration.

On Friday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that...Read more

It was a rare White House rebuke to the crypto industry: Don’t take your newfound political muscle in Washington for granted.

A week after Coinbase Global Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong helped stall sweeping cryptocurrency legislation in the Senate, White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt took to X to express his displeasure ...Read more

MIAMI — It’s no secret that Florida’s iconic coral reefs are in trouble.

Repeated body blows from hurricanes, pollution, disease, climate change — and a near-knockout punch from a 2023 marine heat wave — has effectively wiped several species off the map and shrunk the reefs that stretch from the Keys throughout South Florida.

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With western states deadlocked in negotiations over how to cut water use along the Colorado River, the Trump administration has called in the governors of seven states to Washington to try to hash out a consensus.

The governors of at least four — Utah, Arizona, Nevada and Wyoming — say they’ll attend the meeting next week led by Interior ...Read more

Networks created to measure quakes deep underground could also track old, potentially dangerous satellites burning up in the atmosphere, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated.

“We’d like to get to the point where we can verify where something entered the atmosphere and whether any fragments reached the ground,” Hopkins ...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It was a cold morning in Florida when the last words heard by any of Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew were uttered by pilot Michael Smith.

The seven members of mission 51-L, the 25th space shuttle mission, had just lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B and were climbing east over the Atlantic.

“Uh...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Sunday before last, Blake DeBok snowmobiled out to nine wild horses he was told were stranded in deep snow north of Mammoth Lakes.

“As soon as I saw them, it really confirmed that they were in a very serious situation,” the Bishop resident said.

Two horses were dead when he arrived, including a foal that appeared ...Read more

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ill. — Bill Rosborough and his son Jon stopped their pickup truck near a 40-acre cornfield and pointed to a white PVC pipe that rose 5 feet from the snow-covered ground on a windy December afternoon.

The Rosboroughs farm this land and placed the pipe to mark the spot where an oil well once stood.

“I don’t even know that ...Read more

Dozens of the world’s major rivers are so heavily tapped, they often run dry before reaching the sea. More than half of all large lakes are shrinking, and most of the world’s major underground sources are declining irreversibly as agricultural pumping drains water that took centuries or even thousands of years to accumulate.

In a report ...Read more

As artificial intelligence threatens to upend job markets in countries around the world, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang brushed off longer term concerns and made the case that skilled vocational workers are seeing increasing demand now.

Plumbers, electricians and construction workers are going to be able to command “six-...Read more

For Suni Williams, 608 days in space was enough to call it a career.

The 60-year-old NASA astronaut who flew on three missions to the International Space Station, the most recent as part of the Crew Flight Test of Boeing’s Starliner, retired from the agency last month.

“Suni Williams has been a trailblazer in human spaceflight, shaping the...Read more

Phones used to ship with a lot of accessories that usually included headphones, a charging cable and a USB wall charger.

Today, phones ship with a charging cable and that’s about it, so you’re on your own for a wall charger. A lot of people will just go with whatever charger they happen to have tucked away in their junk drawer, but chances ...Read more

Colorado State University has partnered with Microsoft to pilot a university-wide artificial intelligence system similar to ChatGPT that places the land-grant institution at the front of the pack in collaborations between higher education and AI companies.

Unlike ChatGPT, the custom-built CSU-GPT and its forthcoming companion RamGPT were ...Read more