June 6, 2024, 8:34am Life
At first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea floor off Florida's Gulf Coast was a piece of wood. It turned out to be something far rarer, Lundberg said: a large section of tusk from a long-extinct mastodon. Read story
June 5, 2024, 1:35pm Business
Boeing launched astronauts for the first time Wednesday, belatedly joining SpaceX as a second taxi service for NASA. Read story
June 5, 2024, 8:06am Life
A 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut has become the first person to spend 1,000 days in space, Russian space agency Roscosmos said Wednesday. Read story
June 4, 2024, 8:35am Life
The Hubble Space Telescope has temporarily stopped observing the cosmos. Read story
June 4, 2024, 8:31am Life
China said its lunar spacecraft unfurled the country’s red and gold flag for the first time on the far side of the moon before part of the vehicle blasted off early Tuesday with rock and soil samples to bring back to Earth. Read story
June 4, 2024, 6:01am Health
There’s an old joke that mosquitoes are like family: They are annoying, but they carry your blood. Read story
June 4, 2024, 5:59am Life
A plant that hasn’t been seen in Vermont since 1916 was just rediscovered by accident, the state’s Fish and Wildlife Department says. Botanist Grace Glynn had been looking for a lost species called false mermaid-weed for about a year. Read story
June 4, 2024, 5:57am Life
Aditya Prabhu loved eating the peaches off the tree in the backyard of his mom’s house. The only problem was the plant produced only a few pieces of fruit each year because Japanese beetles in the hundreds would eat at the leaves, depleting the plant’s energy to make peaches. Read story
June 4, 2024, 5:56am Life
They’re six-legged, hairy home invaders that just won’t die, no matter how hard you try. Cockroaches are experts at surviving indoors, hiding in kitchen pipes or musty drawers. But they didn’t start out that way. Read story
June 4, 2024, 5:55am Life
New research indicates the sun’s magnetic field originates much closer to the surface than previously thought, a finding that could help predict periods of extreme solar storms like the ones that slammed Earth last month. Read story
