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'You need boots to live here, or a boat': King tides swamping Miami streets again
MIAMI — On a bayfront street in Miami Shores, water bubbled up from the asphalt. It surged up through a drain, covering the entire street in just a few hours despite a perfectly clear sky.
Saturday marked the peak of this season’s king tide, the highest tide of the year. Across South Florida, and along the east coast, salty water crept into...Read more
'A beautiful thing': Klamath River salmon are spotted far upstream in Oregon after dam removal
Less than two months after the removal of dams restored a free-flowing Klamath River, salmon have made their way upstream to begin spawning and have been spotted in Oregon for the first time in more than a century.
Biologists with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced that they found a single fall-run Chinook on Oct. 16 in a ...Read more
How did cockroaches survive the asteroid that led to the extinction of dinosaurs?
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How did cockroaches survive the asteroid that led to the extinction of dinosaurs? – Kinjal, age 11, Delhi, India
When the rock now known as the Chicxulub impactor plummeted...Read more
SpaceX launches 99th operational mission of the year
SpaceX knocked out its 99th operational flight of the year with a Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday night.
A Falcon 9 with 20 Starlink satellites lifted off from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 7:31 p.m. Eastern time.
This was the 17th flight of the first-stage booster that made a recovery landing downrange in ...Read more
Distressed about climate change, a 'supermajority' of young Americans across the political spectrum want bolder action
CHICAGO – A “supermajority” of young Americans across the political spectrum feel distressed about human-made climate change and want bolder action from the government and corporations, a new study has found. Experiencing the worsening effects of a rapidly changing climate throughout their youth and into adulthood, this crisis has become ...Read more
SpaceX set to launch Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral if winds die down
SpaceX is set to launch its 99th operational flight of the year with a Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday night if the winds diminish.
A Falcon 9 with 20 Starlink satellites is aiming for liftoff from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 7:31 p.m. Eastern time with a backup option on Saturday at 7:06 p.m.
Space Launch...Read more
On New Jersey's Burlington Island, human nature has been at odds with nature for 400 years. What's next?
PHILADELPHIA — Beautiful and artificial, the 100-acre lake on Burlington Island embodies the sort of complexities that for centuries have helped make this storied piece of South Jersey real estate alluring, inspiring — and a periodic source of controversy.
The western shore of the verdant, uninhabited Delaware River island is 1,000 feet ...Read more
AI is supposed to be Hollywood's next big thing. What's taking so long?
Earlier this year, OpenAI and other artificial intelligence companies wooed Hollywood studios with the futuristic promise of AI tools that they said could help make the business of creating movies and television shows faster, easier and cheaper.
What the tech companies wanted was access to troves of footage and intellectual property from series...Read more
A TikToker's Florida home flooded 3 times in 4 years. Now, she's raising it by 12 feet
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Exhausted, though relieved to have survived, is how Dr. Meghan Martin summarized her Hurricane Milton experience in her first post-storm update to her more than 2 million TikTok followers last week.
“These hurricanes, man, like, back to back like this,” she said as she ruffled her short, wavy hair and exhaled.
The ...Read more
Global forest fire carbon emissions have jumped 60% in 20 years
Carbon dioxide emissions from forest fires have surged 60% globally since 2001, as more and bigger blazes tore through fast-warming regions outside the tropics, according to a new study. The research, published Thursday in the journal Science, shows that wildfires are getting worse, particularly in one climate-sensitive area — the northern ...Read more
Commentary: Does California stand a chance of preserving our precious groundwater?
One of the most consequential environmental laws in state history turned 10 years old last month. You’d be forgiven if you didn’t notice. The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act remains, like the declining resource it aims to protect, largely invisible to most Californians.
Despite this, the first decade of SGMA (“sigma” to those who...Read more
Why Nevada casinos won't use a new gun-detection system being used in other states
A tribal casino in Oklahoma is using an app tied to its surveillance camera system that uses artificial intelligence to detect patrons carrying firearms.
Travis Thompson, director of compliance for the Muskogee Nation Gaming Enterprise in Tulsa, Oklahoma, said it’s believed to be the first casino property to install the ZeroEyes digital ...Read more
Toyota joins with Hyundai's Boston Dynamics on AI-powered robots
Toyota Motor Corp.’s research unit and Hyundai Motor Co.’s Boston Dynamics are joining forces to speed up development of humanoid robots with artificial intelligence.
The partnership will pair Toyota Research Institute’s expertise in large behavior model learning for machines with Boston Dynamics’ humanoid Atlas robot, they said ...Read more
SpaceX sues California regulators, alleging anti-Musk bias in rocket rejection
LOS ANGELES — Elon Musk's SpaceX is suing the California Coastal Commission, just days after the agency tasked with protecting the state's coast and beaches rejected a plan for the company to launch up 50 rockets into space this year.
In the federal suit, filed Tuesday in the Central District of California, the company accuses the state ...Read more
Microplastic pollution is everywhere, even in the exhaled breath of dolphins – new research
Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are exhaling microplastic fibers, according to our new research published in the journal PLOS One.
Tiny plastic pieces have spread all over the planet – on land, in the air and even in clouds. An estimated 170 trillion bits of microplastic are estimated to...Read more
Aquaculture could harm animal welfare or protect it, depending on what species the farms raise
The global aquaculture industry has tripled in size since the year 2000, with producers raising a mind-boggling diversity of species, from seaweeds and clams to carp, salmon and cuttlefish. Many of these creatures are undomesticated and lead complex and highly social lives in the wild.
The rapid growth in aquaculture means that ...Read more
NASA orders up more SpaceX flights, tables Boeing's Starliner until at least late 2025
NASA has officially given SpaceX the next two missions to the International Space Station under its Commercial Crew Program with Boeing’s Starliner still potentially available for a late visit in 2025 if it achieves certification.
NASA announced updated crew rotation plans Tuesday including a crew assignment for Crew-10, the program’s next ...Read more
Coastal cities have a hidden vulnerability to storm-surge and tidal flooding − entirely caused by humans
Centuries ago, estuaries around the world were teeming with birds and turbulent with schools of fish, their marshlands and endless tracts of channels melting into the gray-blue horizon.
Fast-forward to today, and in estuaries such as New York Harbor, San Francisco Bay and Miami’s Biscayne Bay – areas where rivers meet the sea – ...Read more
Forget EpiPens. This San Diego biotech is offering the same medicine without needles
Alyssa Bauder was just learning how to read, but she had already memorized the colors of food packaging that spelled danger for her: peanuts. The 6-year-old knew to stay away from chocolate dressed in orange or blue and yellow wrappers.
Then everything got bungled on Valentine’s Day. Her first grade class exchanged handfuls of candy all ...Read more
Beats by 3M? Latest noise-cancelling headset boasts solar charging, improved audio
3M isn’t out to compete with Apple or Beats, but the company’s new solar-powered, noise-reducing, Bluetooth-equipped headset might interest audiophiles as much as avid woodworkers.
For about $170, 3M’s new WorkTunes headset boasts many of the same specs as high-end headphones for half the price, plus a solar cell that charges the unit. ...Read more
Popular Stories
- A TikToker's Florida home flooded 3 times in 4 years. Now, she's raising it by 12 feet
- How did cockroaches survive the asteroid that led to the extinction of dinosaurs?
- 'You need boots to live here, or a boat': King tides swamping Miami streets again
- On New Jersey's Burlington Island, human nature has been at odds with nature for 400 years. What's next?
- 'A beautiful thing': Klamath River salmon are spotted far upstream in Oregon after dam removal