Sci-Fi

If a food item isn’t safe to eat, it’s best to find that out before someone eats it. But manual testing of every jar and bottle isn’t possible, even when a threat, like the recent […]

Fires at opposite ends of California have smothered the Golden State in smoke.  Fall may be here, but rapidly-moving flames are still torching the exceptionally dry land, killing dozens of people in the state.  Photos […]

More harrowing footage of the California wildfires shows just how close the fires in the southern part of the state keep creeping to large urban areas.  The new video from ABC7 show the Peak Fire […]

Rain will be the antidote to the worst of this California fire season. Most years, some rains would have already arrived. But California’s grasses, woodlands, and forests remain profoundly parched — with some areas even […]

“Orion is supposed to launch in 2023,” says Lowell Zoller, one of the last remaining engineers who worked on the Apollo program, with a wry smile. “Well, if it does, it’ll be at 11:59 p.m. […]

A burned vehicle in the driveway of a Paradise, Calif. home. Image: PETER DASILVA/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock By Mark Kaufman2018-11-13 02:43:45 UTC After transforming the once tranquil town of Paradise, California into charred automobiles and tales of horror, […]

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In devastated Paradise, Calif.,  a staircase that once led to a home. Image: Rich Pedroncelli/AP/REX/Shutterstock By Mark Kaufman2018-11-11 19:13:50 UTC The California fire season should be winding down by autumn, but it’s alive and well. […]

The private space race is heating up. U.S. and New Zealand spaceflight company Rocket Lab successfully completed its first commercial launch called “It’s Business Time” on Sunday, sending seven payloads to orbit. Rocket Lab’s Electron […]

As thousands of firefighters battled uncontrolled flames in both Northern and Southern California on Saturday, President Trump tweeted out an ill-informed, distorted message about the cause of these deadly autumn infernos.  But the firefighting community […]