DENVER — One of Colorado’s reintroduced wolves likely died of wounds it suffered during a fight with another wolf, federal officials announced Thursday.

The wolf also had a healed gunshot wound on one of its hind legs, according to a statement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed the wolf’s death...Read more

Carbon dioxide emissions from private jets have increased by 46% in the last five years, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment.

The researchers analyzed over 26,000 airplanes and 18 million trips — representing most private flights between 2019 and 2023 — and found that more than ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX managed Thursday to get off a Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral after scrubbing the launch twice earlier in the week.

A Falcon 9 carrying 23 of the internet satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 3:19 p.m. EST under cloudy skies.

Weather, though, was not a concern...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Humanity’s heating of the planet, driven by the burning of fossil fuels and unchecked emissions of greenhouse gases, has become the main driver of worsening droughts in California and the American West, according to new research.

A team of UCLA and NOAA scientists found that while droughts in the last century were caused ...Read more

Clouds form when water vapor – an invisible gas in the atmosphere – sticks to tiny floating particles, such as dust, and turns into liquid water droplets or ice crystals. In a newly published study, we show that microplastic particles can have the same effects, producing ice crystals at temperatures 5 to 10 degrees Celsius (9 to 18 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In downtown Los Angeles, parking lots are often placeholders, eventually giving rise to future development, but in the district known as South Park, one parking lot might just stay low.

Surrounded by residential towers, this ordinary patch of asphalt at 11th Street and South Grand Avenue, smaller than an ice-skating rink, may ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Biden administration on Wednesday issued a final environmental review for a second lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The administration also identified a preferred alternative for the sale that would offer 400,000 acres in the refuge’s coastal plane, the minimum acreage required by Congress for the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove have been placed under quarantine Wednesday in light of an uninvited and unwelcome visitor: the oriental fruit fly, an invasive pest that attacks over 230 crops including fruits, nuts and vegetables.

The order by the California Department of Food and Agriculture bars fruit from within the...Read more

When Hurricane Helene damaged western North Carolina in September, filling medical facilities with people who couldn’t be cared for at home, Jim Polk, a tech executive at Exela Pharmaceutical Sciences in Lenoir, North Carolina, got a call from the Atrium Health hospital group in flooded Asheville. Could his company make intravenous saline bags...Read more

Satechi's new Vegan-Leather Passport Cover with Find My technology allows it to be located with Apple's tracking system.

The pocket-sized case (5.6 by 4.2 by 0.7 inches, 3.7 ounces) has a slot for a passport, four credit cards and room for a boarding pass. But the technology inside makes the Satechi Passport Cover stand out, especially when ...Read more

Although spooky season is over, the scares don’t have to stop. Players will find plenty of horror in video games year-round. In fact, some of the best titles this year have been horror games. Here’s a quick look at recent releases that have murder, mayhem and monsters.

“Call of Duty: Black Ops 6” — After a disappointing outing last ...Read more

“There was a hole here. It’s gone now.”

The meaning of the words, a blood-red message spray-painted on a covered window in a deserted bar, has long been debated by fans of Konami’s 2001 seminal psychological survival horror game Silent Hill 2. More than two decades later, we’re no closer to understanding those unnerving words, but ...Read more

This week a friend and photo enthusiast asked a question, “I know a person who knows more about photography than me, and he says I might want to look into shooting RAW photos. I asked him why and I didn’t really understand his answer. What are RAW photos, and should I be taking them?”

To understand RAW, you also need to understand JPEG....Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly-needed boost to Northern California’s kelp forests—underwater cathedrals of green and gold that nearly vanished from the north coast a decade ago.

In early October,...Read more

The horrors of war are all too familiar: lives lost, homes destroyed, entire communities forced to flee. Yet as time passes, places that once were sites of death and destruction can become peaceful natural refuges.

One of the deadliest battles fought on U.S. soil, for example, was the Battle of Gettysburg. Tens of thousands of men ...Read more

Rutgers University's Institute for Translational Medicine and Science has received a $47.5 million federal grant to develop practical applications for scientific discoveries, the university announced last week.

The funding will support the institute's work to bring the latest medical practices and research advancements to patients in the region...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX sent up 6,000 pounds of cargo on a resupply mission to the International Space Station on Monday night with the rocket booster’s return trip bringing a sonic boom to parts of Central Florida.

A Falcon 9 on the CRS-31 mission lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A at 9:29 p.m. EST.

The first-stage ...Read more