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Bobcat survives deadly California wildfire, has 4 kittens

A young bobcat that survived a massive and deadly wildfire in Southern California last year has given birth to four kittens, ...

Hurricane Michael gets an upgrade to rare Category 5 status

Hurricane Michael, which devastated a swath of the Florida Panhandle last fall, has been upgraded to a Category 5 storm, only ...

Private cargo ship brings Easter feast to the space station

A private cargo ship brought the makings of an Easter feast to the International Space Station on Friday, along with mice and ...

Groundbreaking Indian Ocean science mission reaches an end

The British-led Nekton scientific mission on Thursday completed a seven-week expedition in the Indian Ocean aimed at ...

Chem professor on leave after Nazi gas chamber exam question

A chemistry professor whose exam question asked students to calculate the lethal dose of a poisonous gas used in Nazi gas ...

America's 1st female astronaut candidate, Jerrie Cobb, dies

America's first female astronaut candidate, pilot Jerrie Cobb, who pushed for equality in space but never reached its ...

Americans' energy use surges despite climate change concern

Americans burned a record amount of energy in 2018, with a 10% jump in consumption from booming natural gas helping to lead ...

Judge voids rules aimed at reforming ultra-Orthodox schools

New York state overstepped its authority with guidelines intended to ensure that ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools teach secular ...

Israeli team investigating 'chain of events' in lunar crash

The Israeli start-up behind last week's failed lunar landing said Thursday that it is still investigating a malfunction that ...

Southern California tickled by tiny tremors every 3 minutes

There's a whole lot of shakin' going on in Southern California — 10 times more than seismologists had thought. But most of ...

Indiana sewer project unearths trove of mastodon bones

Workers installing sewer lines across a southern Indiana farm unearthed the fossilized bones of a mastodon that likely stood ...

Wild bee species critical to pollination on the decline

More than a dozen wild bee species critical to pollinating everything from blueberries to apples in New England are on the ...

Study: Genetic test predicts middle-aged obesity risk

Can a genetic test identify newborns at risk of becoming severely obese by middle age? Researchers say they have come up with ...

California dispute threatens plan to protect Colorado River

A dispute between two major California water agencies is threatening to derail a hard-won agreement designed to protect a ...

Tick, tick, tick: Alaska braces for invading parasites

Health and wildlife officials are taking steps to prepare for potentially dangerous parasites that could gain a foothold ...

Scientists spur some activity in brains of slaughtered pigs

Scientists restored some activity within the brains of pigs that had been slaughtered hours before, raising hopes for some ...

Space station shipment launched from Virginia seashore

A fresh grocery shipment rocketed toward the International Space Station on Wednesday after launching from Virginia's ...

Stanford clears faculty members in gene-edited baby inquiry

Stanford University has cleared three faculty members of any wrongdoing in dealings with a Chinese scientist who claims to ...

US astronaut to spend 11 months in space, set female record

A NASA astronaut will spend nearly a year at the International Space Station, setting a record for women. Station astronaut ...

Rebuilding Notre Dame will be long, fraught and expensive

Notre Dame in Paris is not the first great cathedral to suffer a devastating fire, and it probably won't be the last. In a ...