Researchers have found that pollutants in the Tijuana River, which carries raw sewage and industrial waste from Tijuana, are also turning up in the air along the coast near the U.S.-Mexico border.

After collecting samples from air and water along the coast, scientists from the University of California, San Diego determined that fine particles ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Riverside County prosecutors have dropped a rape charge against Dan Price, the former chief executive of Gravity Payments, who was accused of sexually assaulting a girlfriend at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs in 2021.

The charge against the 41-year-old founder of the Seattle-based tech company was dismissed Tuesday due to a lack ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — An invasive tick species in Connecticut has been found to carry the bacteria that can cause ehrlichiosis in humans, a discovery that has alarmed state biologists as the tick continues to increase its spread throughout the state.

Longhorned ticks, an emerging invasive species in the state, have now been found to carry the ...Read more

The rebooted “Doom” series has been a masterclass in reinvention. Bucking the trend of military shooters, the id Software team crafted a brilliant gameplay loop that’s the spiritual successor to the run-and-gun action the developers pioneered in 1993.

It relied on movement, herding enemies and creating satisfying combo-based combat ...Read more

If there is just one gift you want to get your dad for Father's Day, it's the Skyworth Companion Portable 24P100 TV. And yes, I said portable. Dad can watch in the garage, on the sofa, in the yard for outdoor movie nights, camping, while grilling -- wherever he wants for on-the-go entertainment.

Everything is built-in, so there is no cable ...Read more

Although the basic form of the video game controller hasn’t changed much since the Xbox 360, innovations in how players interact with games are still alive. It just comes in the form of elite-style controllers, and the company at the forefront of it is SCUF.

The peripheral maker is responsible for developing paddles on the back of gamepads,...Read more

Thanks to a recent blizzard of executive orders and late-night congressional maneuvers, the nation’s public lands have become the latest target in the giant sucking vortex of current American politics. The current administration is proposing that we the people sign away our invaluable citizen estate, ostensibly to “create jobs, fuel ...Read more

For decades, Hollywood directors including Stanley Kubrick, James Cameron and Alex Garland have cast artificial intelligence as a villain that can turn into a killing machine.

Even Steven Spielberg's relatively hopeful "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence" had a pessimistic edge to its vision of the future.

Now Google — a leading developer in AI ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX managed to send its developmental Starship back into space surpassing the explosive fates that befell its last two attempts, while also for the first time flying with a reused Super Heavy booster. But not everything went well with the upper stage, which lost control during its suborbital trip halfway around the Earth.

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As the Colorado River’s giant reservoirs have declined during the last two decades, even larger amounts of water have been pumped and drained from underground, according to new research based on data from NASA satellites.

Scientists at Arizona State University examined more than two decades of satellite measurements and found that since 2003 ...Read more

The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear an Apache religious challenge to the construction of a massive copper mine on Oak Flat, a swath of untouched federal land in Arizona that tribe members consider sacred and irreplaceable.

The decision, which leaves intact a lower court's ruling against the tribe members, marked a major loss for Apache ...Read more

SpaceX looks to get its developmental Starship back into space, this time with less explosions, and for the first time flying with a reused Super Heavy booster.

The massive combined rocket and spacecraft is targeting liftoff from the company’s Texas site Starbase during a 60-minute window that opens at 7:30 p.m. EDT (6:30 p.m. CDT).

This ...Read more

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. —Two decades after Macomb County officials first noticed a peregrine falcon nest atop the Old County Building in downtown Mount Clemens, the species continues to come back to nest and now three newly born chicks have been banded so they can be monitored.

Over the holiday weekend, Macomb County officials successfully ...Read more

CHICAGO — Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal mine, the waste pile — located on a massive river delta from another era — is an unremarkable remnant from the region’s once-...Read more

CHICAGO — For nearly four decades, owners of the Baldwin power plant in southern Illinois managed to avoid the most stringent requirements of the federal Clean Air Act.

The gargantuan coal burner, built during the early to mid-1970s, became the nation’s largest source of sulfur dioxide, which creates acid rain and lung-damaging soot. It ...Read more

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently said he’d sign into law a ban on “weather modification activities” — such as spreading tiny particles into the air from aircraft to control sunlight — it raised long-standing controversies over “geoengineering” and “chemtrails.”

“I think it’s kind of caricatured as kind of kooky,” ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Rep. Sam Liccardo, D-San Jose, lashed out at President Donald Trump’s cuts to programs combating climate change on Friday in Pacifica, where local officials and residents have been left scrambling to protect critical infrastructure after a long-anticipated $50 million federal grant to address severe coastal erosion along ...Read more

The troubled, $20 billion U.S. residential solar market’s future rests on whether Senate Republicans will challenge their brethren in the House of Representatives and change provisions of the massive tax and spending bill that executives and analysts say would devastate the industry.

The bill passed by the House this week would strip away tax...Read more