KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX has lined up its first launch from Kennedy Space Center for the year on Wednesday morning.

A Falcon 9 carrying 21 Starlink satellites is targeting a 10:27 a.m. liftoff from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A during a window that runs until 2:17 p.m. with additional opportunities on Thursday beginning at 9:59 a.m.

The first...Read more

The Department of the Interior was created in 1849 as the United States was rapidly expanding and acquiring territory. It became known as “the department of everything else” for its enormous portfolio of missions, which ranged from western expansion to oversight of the District of Columbia jail.

Interior handles natural resources ...Read more

The need for portable power varies by user. If there is one power bank that will fit the bill for most, it's Raycon's Magic Laptop Power Bank 5-in-1, with five versatile outputs.

It has a travel-friendly compact design, 65 watts of power delivery and a rechargeable 15,000 mAh battery.

The Magic Laptop Power Bank packs a punch with its ...Read more

The last time a new “Grand Theft Auto” game launched, Barack Obama was president and Bruce Willis was still filming “Die Hard” movies. Since then, fans have been clamoring for a new entry to the series, but the success of “Grand Theft Auto V” and its online component gave the title a ridiculously long tail that has spanned two ...Read more

One of the most underrated parts of gaming is virtual reality. The hardware has developed rapidly and developers are figuring out what works and what doesn't. That has led to games that play less like tech demos and more like vibrant and deep experiences.

Armed with better know-how, projects nowadays have hooks meant to appeal to a broader ...Read more

This week a reader writes, “I have not experienced this before, but I have a Satechi external battery which I use to charge my Apple Watch (and other things). It charges with USB-C.

"Last weekend we were at a very nice hotel in Galveston and charging my watch used up about half the battery. I attempted to recharge the battery using the same...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A decades-long effort to save a critically endangered Hawaiian crow from extinction is taking a new strategy — relocating the birds to a different island than their historical home. And the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is playing a key role.

The ‘alalā is native to the Big Island where earlier reintroductions were tried. ...Read more

As California students’ math and English test scores continue to trail pre-pandemic scores and students struggle to recover from COVID-19 learning loss, one Bay Area innovator has turned to artificial intelligence for a solution.

This year’s test scores data revealed that only about 35% of K-12 students in the state met or exceeded the ...Read more

Anyone hoping for a clear path forward this year for NASA's imperiled Mars Sample Return mission will have to wait a little longer.

The agency has settled on two potential strategies for the first effort to bring rock and soil from another planet back to Earth for study, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Tuesday: It can either leverage ...Read more

President Joe Biden on Tuesday established two new national monuments in California, the latest in a flurry of major environmental initiatives affecting the Golden State as his presidency comes to a close.

Biden designated the Chuckwalla National Monument in Southern California, south of Joshua Tree National Park, and the Sáttítla Highlands ...Read more

NASA announced Tuesday it had narrowed down to two options the reworked Mars Sample Return mission aiming for a cheaper and quicker completion than the version that was killed last year.

One would be to use a version of the sky crane system that was used to land both the Mars rovers Perseverance and Curiosity safely on the Martian surface. The ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Blue Origin got its license, the payload is secure and now it has a target launch window to try and send up its New Glenn rocket for the first time.

The company announced late Monday that it was aiming for an early Friday liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 36 during a three-hour window ...Read more

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — Poofs of smoke and coal ash wafted from a 30-foot pit on Marshall Mesa as an excavator the size of a small house scooped dirt and coal out of the ground.

The excavator broke chunks of coal from an underground seam and dumped them onto a pile of dirt and rock, where a bulldozer mixed it all together. A tanker truck ...Read more

A tomb recently unearthed in Egypt shows that medicine and magic were once equally revered, and expertise in both earned a long-dead physician to the pharaohs a place of honor among the ancient world’s most esteemed.

While ancient Egypt is well known for its architectural marvels, the society also made great strides in the field of medicine, ...Read more

Local environmentalists and offshore drilling opponents are welcoming President Joe Biden’s announcement he is ordering a ban on new oil and gas drilling that includes along the California coastline, arguing the risks far outweigh the benefits.

The move comes as the days tick down on the end of Biden’s term; Biden is using his authority ...Read more

In a sweeping environmental decision during the final days of his presidency, President Joe Biden on Monday banned new offshore oil and gas drilling across 625 million acres of America’s oceans, including all federal waters in the Pacific off California, Oregon and Washington.

Biden said the move, which also includes a prohibition on the ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump vowed to overturn outgoing President Joe Biden’s eleventh-hour ban on expanded offshore drilling in the U.S.

On Monday, Biden declared he would invoke the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prevent offshore drilling along the East and West coasts, through parts of the Gulf of Mexico and portions of the Northern ...Read more

SpaceX sent up the second launch of the year from the Space Coast on Monday afternoon.

A Falcon 9 carrying 24 of the company’s Starlink internet satellites took off at 3:43 p.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.

The first-stage booster made its 17th flight, having previously launched the Crew-5...Read more

A new report linking fluoridated drinking water to lower IQ scores in children is sure to ratchet up the debate over a practice that's considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century.

The report published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics synthesizes the results of dozens of research studies that have been released since ...Read more