LOS ANGELES — For several days, excitement has grown around the two new hatchlings of Jackie and Shadow, Big Bear’s celebrity bald eagles.

On Thursday, a pip — or the first sign of hatching — was seen in the third egg in the avian couple’s clutch. Triplets would be unprecedented for the eagles in a decade of observation.

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Commercial company Intuitive Machines has had some luck getting its lunar landers to the surface of the moon, but hasn’t had any luck keeping them upright.

The Houston-based company flying its second mission under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program made history in 2024 becoming the first commercial company to manage a soft ...Read more

SpaceX lost contact again in its latest test flight of the Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Texas.

The rocket was making its eighth attempt, and SpaceX was able to perform the third-ever catch of the booster back at the tower. The suborbital test flight came just under two months since the last attempt ended explosively over the Atlantic.

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President Donald Trump’s efforts to slash the budget of federal agencies could have ominous implications for South Carolina’s state-run environmental protection department and the natural resources it is charged with safeguarding.

State programs that bring clean drinking water to poor communities, protect beaches from erosion-causing ...Read more

Home Depot has rolled out an online concierge, powered by generative artificial intelligence, to help answer customers’ questions about millions of products and even how to get projects done.

The Georgia-based home improvement giant said Magic Apron is powered by advanced large language model tools and can provide real-time answers online ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California’s salmon population has declined so severely over the last several years that regulators canceled the fishing season in 2023 and again in 2024.

This year, state estimates show the number of Chinook salmon is still so low that fishing could again be prohibited — or if not, sharply limited — to help fish stocks ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — In his speech to Congress on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said that South Korea, alongside other countries such as Japan, wanted to invest “trillions of dollars each” in a $44 billion liquefied natural gas pipeline in Alaska that he has touted since taking office.

But in South Korea, where the government has made ...Read more

If the joy of seeing butterflies seems increasingly rare these days, it isn’t your imagination.

From 2000 to 2020, the number of butterflies fell by 22% across the continental United States. That’s 1 in 5 butterflies lost. The findings are from an analysis just published in the journal Science by the U.S. Geological Survey’s ...Read more

A private company attempted to complete a quick one-two punch at the moon’s face today as Intuitive Machines looked to follow up Firefly Aerospace’s recent lunar landing success, but this time on the south pole.

The Houston-based company’s Athena lander on the IM-2 mission was targeting a 12:31 p.m, touchdown in a lunar plateau called ...Read more

A private company will attempt to complete a quick one-two punch at the moon’s face today as Intuitive Machines looks to follow up Firefly Aerospace’s recent lunar landing success, but this time on the south pole.

The Houston-based company’s Athena lander on the IM-2 mission is targeting a 12:32 p.m, touchdown in a lunar plateau called ...Read more

BOSTON — Cape Cod isn’t the only spot in New England where great white sharks like to feast on seals.

A new study from local shark researchers has found that more than 100 white sharks that were tagged off the Cape were later detected along the Maine coast.

Shark scientists have tracked the movements of white sharks in Maine state waters ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man was arrested Tuesday morning after allegedly beating a sea lion suffering from domoic acid poisoning on Ventura Beach, according to authorities.

Surveillance footage captured a man later identified as 32-year-old Christopher Hurtado attacking a California sea lion on Harbor Boulevard, according to a Ventura Police ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man was arrested Tuesday morning after allegedly beating a sea lion suffering from domoic acid poisoning on Ventura Beach, according to authorities.

Surveillance footage captured a man later identified as 32-year-old Christopher Hurtado attacking a California sea lion on Harbor Boulevard, according to a Ventura Police ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s declaration of a “national energy emergency” on his first day in office – and which he reiterated during his address to Congress on March 4, 2025 – might have seemed to echo other national emergencies, like those presidents declared in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and to deal with the ...Read more

There was a lot of speculation about the next version of the iPhone SE — which has traditionally been Apple’s cheapest iPhone.

The 2022 third generation iPhone SE cost $399 and many of us in the media were wondering if Apple would keep the next version at that price level — spoiler alert — they did not.

Nor did they call it the fourth ...Read more

Scores of wildfires broke out across North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia in early March 2025 as strong winds, abnormally dry conditions and low humidity combined to kindle and spread the flames.

The fires followed a year of weather whiplash in the Carolinas, from a flash drought over the summer to extreme hurricane flooding in ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court has limited how flexible the Environmental Protection Agency and states can be in regulating water pollution under the Clean Water Act in a ruling issued March 4, 2025. However, the justices kept the decision relatively narrow.

The ruling only prohibits federal and state permitting agencies from issuing permits ...Read more

Automakers are promising more robotaxis and higher levels of autonomous driving features in passenger vehicles in the coming months, but they'll be faced with obstacles around safety concerns, affordability and a patchwork of state regulations.

Higher levels of autonomy bring the expectation of revenue streams with fatter profit margins, ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota — Pests are more than annoying or gross. For a company with cavernous warehouses and factories, they are a threat to business.

Ecolab has built a better mousetrap for customers that goes far beyond cheese and a spring-loaded bar.

Rodents can ruin equipment in a manufacturing factory or create unsanitary conditions in a ...Read more