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When game director Hugo Martin discussed “Doom: The Dark Ages,” three images spring up over the discourse. The first is Leonidas in the “300” battling the Persians at the Hot Gates in Thermopylae. The second is another Frank Miller project “The Dark Knight Returns” and the last one is a tank.

Those images embody what the team at ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — USC scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of the Earth's enigmatic inner core, revealing for the first time that this 1,500-mile-wide ball of iron and nickel is changing.

The planet's inner core was previously thought of as a hard, solid sphere. But a new study has found that its edges are softer than ...Read more

The next time you call to book a service appointment for your car, you might not need to speak with a human.

Companies with artificial intelligence-powered tools are pushing into all corners of the dealership experience, from car buying to the repair shop. AI is now in dealers’ website chatbots, text and voice assistants, sales lead tools, ...Read more

SpaceX and NASA, under pressure to get a pair of Boeing Starliner astronauts home sooner than later, announced Tuesday they have shifted plans for the next mission to the International Space Station.

The Crew-10 mission to the ISS is now targeting as early as March 12. Its four passengers are headed there to relieve the Crew-9 mission, which ...Read more

SpaceX lined up and knocked out the 14th launch from Florida's Space Coast on Tuesday afternoon.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 of the company’s Starlink internet satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 1:53 p.m. Eastern time.

The first-stage booster flew for the 18th time and made a ...Read more

When a hurricane or tornado starts to form, your local weather forecasters can quickly pull up maps tracking its movement and showing where it’s headed. But have you ever wondered where they get all that information?

The forecasts can seem effortless, but behind the scenes, a vast network of satellites, airplanes, radar, computer ...Read more

The best and the worst thing about vaccination, pediatrician Dr. Adam Ratner says, is that it "makes nothing happen."

A child successfully inoculated against a vaccine-preventable disease — the measles, let's say, to name the most infectious of them all — doesn't fall sick with that condition, doesn't miss school, doesn't go to the hospital...Read more

Imagine a world in which a hurricane devastates the Gulf Coast, and the U.S. has no federal agency prepared to quickly send supplies, financial aid and temporary housing assistance.

Could the states manage this catastrophic event on their own?

Normally, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, known as FEMA, is prepared to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The future of the White House Council on Environmental Quality is murky after a court decision and executive order vacated its decades-old authority to issue environmental regulations.

The CEQ implements the National Environmental Policy Act across the federal government, coordinating environmental reviews and permitting for ...Read more

Valentine’s Day often conjures images of chocolates and romance. But the crop behind this indulgence faces an existential threat.

Regions like northeastern Brazil, one of the world’s notable cocoa-producing areas, are grappling with increasing aridity – a slow, yet unrelenting drying of the land. Cocoa is made from the beans of ...Read more

Proponents of creating a national monument to preserve one of Colorado’s “last, best wild places” are pivoting on strategy in the face of new President Donald Trump’s hostility to such designations and his plans to instead open more public lands to energy development.

Members of the “Protect the Dolores” coalition had hoped former ...Read more

A business park in South San Jose. Jack London Square in Oakland. The San Diego waterfront. Next door to a high school in Santa Barbara County.

Across California, large battery storage plants are being planned and constructed in dozens of locations at a pace faster than anywhere else in the United States. They are a critical part of the state�...Read more

PITTSBURGH — An assault on climate protection is also an assault on the Pittsburgh region's public health, workforce, and overall well-being.

That was the central message from more than 100 people who rallied Saturday at the Flagstaff Hill Pavilion in Oakland in protest of President Donald Trump’s efforts to derail investment in clean ...Read more

The annual watchdog report tasked to gauge NASA safety commended the agency’s handling of last year’s beleaguered Boeing’s Starliner mission, but revealed yet another issue found during the flight and questioned NASA’s needs for the spacecraft in the future.

The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), which was formed in 1968, released ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX was set to send up the 13th launch from the Space Coast this year on Friday afternoon, but has retargeted efforts to Saturday.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 12-9 mission carrying 21 Starlink satellites is now aiming for liftoff at 1:23 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 during a...Read more

BOSTON — Even though it’s the heart of winter, sharks are still in our frigid waters.

One of those sharks unfortunately washed up dead on a Cape beach earlier this week, as researchers responded to Wellfleet Harbor and took samples from the massive 6,000-pound basking shark.

Scientists are still trying to figure out what caused the fish’...Read more

An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don't run for cover just yet.

A NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, on Dec. 27.

"The object had a close approach with Earth," which made it bright enough to be detected in surveys for asteroids, according to...Read more