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BOSTON — The first North Atlantic right whale mom and calf duo of the season were spotted in Cape Cod Bay heading into spring, the Center for Coastal Studies announced.

“The first sighting of mother/calf pairs in Cape Cod Bay each season is always an exciting moment that brings hope for the species,” said Daniel Palacios, the Center’s ...Read more

Last summer, investors persuaded the founders of cyber startup Wiz to turn down Google’s $23 billion takeover offer. They feared the U.S. government would block the deal and argued that Wiz was better off as an independent company.

On Tuesday, Wiz’s founders said they’d changed their minds.

It didn’t hurt that Google parent Alphabet ...Read more

The two Boeing Starliner astronauts left behind on the International Space Station are back on Earth, ending an odyssey that turned a planned eight-day trip into more than 9 1/2 months in space.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who arrived aboard Starliner as part of its Crew Flight Test last June, returned home instead in a ...Read more

Two mountain lion cubs have been photographed in Michigan, a state where the big cats were hunted to near extinction and their young haven’t been seen in the wild in over 100 years.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced in a news release March 13 that two cubs between 7 and 9 weeks old were spotted in the state’s rural ...Read more

While SpaceX was busy Tuesday bringing astronauts home on one coast of Florida, it managed to send up a rocket from the other.

A Falcon 9 carrying 23 Starlink satellites lifted off at 3:57 p.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.

The first-stage booster for the mission flew for the 19th time and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California lawmakers are proposing legislation that aims to reestablish safeguards for the state’s streams and wetlands in response to a Supreme Court ruling limiting federal clean water regulations.

Supporters say the legislation has taken on heightened urgency as the Trump administration begins to scale back protections for ...Read more

The pair of Boeing Starliner astronauts left behind on the International Space Station are finally on their way back to Earth after a planned eight-day trip turned into more than 9 1/2 months in space.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who arrived aboard Starliner as part of its Crew Flight Test last June, began their trip home ...Read more

ATLANTA — Cicadas, those loud, large but harmless insects, will soon emerge this spring after 17 years underground in Georgia.

This brood, called Brood XIV, will begin their first mating season since 2008, invading northeast Georgia and 13 other eastern states.

But these bugs won’t be nearly as noisy or as numerous as last year’s “...Read more

Just over half the world’s population shares a river or lake basin with at least one other country. To sustainably manage those water resources for the health of people, ecosystems and economies, neighboring countries must work together.

However, many countries have been less willing to cooperate in recent years, even to protect a ...Read more

National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.

The mRNA technology is under study at the NIH for prevention and treatment of infectious ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado could take a more proactive and permanent role in managing the wild horse herds that roam the Western Slope under a bill in the state legislature.

Advocates hope House Bill 1283 will make the state a model for cooperative management of the charismatic and controversial species. It would permanently give the Colorado ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration unveiled plans to build housing on federal land, a move it said could help address a shortfall of 7 million affordable homes in the U.S.

The Interior Department and Department of Housing and Urban Development will partner to assess the nation’s housing needs and identify “underutilized” land ...Read more

In 1957, Hollywood released “The Deadly Mantis,” a B-grade monster movie starring a praying mantis of nightmare proportions. Its premise: Melting Arctic ice has released a very hungry, million-year-old megabug, and scientists and the U.S. military will have to stop it.

The rampaging insect menaces America’s Arctic military ...Read more

NASA bumped up the return flight home plans for the SpaceX Crew-9 mission that includes a pair of astronauts who were left behind on the International Space Station by Boeing’s Starliner.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived to the station on June 6, 2024 for what was supposed to have been as short as an eight-day stay, but have now been ...Read more

The pandemic stretched us — our communication, our science, our distribution networks, even what it means to be a good citizen amid rapidly developing knowledge.

With bird flu encroaching and the first measles-related deaths in a decade, the potential for another pandemic is ever-present. Our response to COVID-19 offers a sense of how ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Representatives of California, Arizona and Nevada are urging the Trump administration to take a different approach in confronting the problems of the water-starved Colorado River.

As Trump’s appointees inherit the task of writing new rules for dealing with the river’s chronic water shortages, the three states are raising ...Read more

Concern turned to grief this weekend as fans of Big Bear’s beloved bald eagle couple Shadow and Jackie learned one of the three eaglets that hatched in the pair’s nest this month did not survive a winter storm.

Throngs of fans flocked to the popular 24-hour live feed of the eagles’ nest to celebrate when the pair welcomed the fuzzy new ...Read more