Wildfires latest: Thousands flee Los Angeles as blazes burn in and around the city
Wildfires tore across the Los Angeles area with devastating force on Wednesday after setting off a desperate escape from ...
Scarves over headscarves, Muslim women’s outdoors group tackles snow tubing in Minnesota
MAPLE GROVE, Minn. (AP) — Ice crystals clung to the eyelashes, parka hood, beanie hat and headscarf of Ruqayah Nasser as she took a break after her first-ever snow tubing runs in a Minnesota park on a ...
Gender balance in computer science and engineering is improving at elite universities but getting worse elsewhere
Overall, across all schools, men earned degrees in these fields at 4.4 times the rate for women in 2022, a slight improvement from the 4.6 rate in 2002. This rate is very different from the near ...
Who owns that restaurant? The answer can affect food safety in unexpected ways, researchers find
Ownership structure can significantly affect performance, profitability and other business outcomes, research shows. As professors who study family businesses, we were curious whether it could also be ...
Interior secretary manages vast lands that all Americans share − and can sway the balance between conservation and development
Interior manages 55 million acres of land and 57 million acres of subsurface mineral rights in trust for the tribes. This essentially means that Interior agencies earn revenue and disperse funds to ...
Nuclear fusion could one day be a viable clean energy source – but big engineering challenges stand in the way
(THE CONVERSATION) The way scientists think about fusion changed forever in 2022, when what some called the experiment of the century demonstrated for the first time that fusion can be a viable source ...
3 ways Trump’s EPA could use the language of science to weaken pollution controls
Some actions will be overt. But history suggests this administration may also try to use the language of science – terms such as transparency, citizen science and uncertainty – to weaken environmental ...
Logging off life but living on: How AI is redefining death, memory and immortality
The system used prerecorded answers combined with artificial intelligence to create a realistic, interactive experience. This wasn’t just a video; it was something closer to a real conversation, ...
What QAnon supporters, butthole sunners and New Age spiritualists have in common
Jacob Chansley, also known as the “QAnon Shaman,” is another well-known example of this juxtaposition: He’s been seen protesting on behalf of both right- and left-wing causes and was at the Jan. 6, ...
Australian Open 2025: There really isn't much time off in the offseason for tennis players
For the record, last season officially and finally wrapped up for good on Dec. 22, when Brazil's João Fonseca won the ATP ...
Trump asks Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case in New York
Trump's lawyers turned to the nation's highest court Wednesday after New York courts refused to do postpone the sentencing by ...
JetBlue passenger suddenly opens exit door as flight is taxiing for takeoff at Boston airport
BOSTON (AP) — A person on board a plane at Boston Logan International Airport that was taxiing for takeoff suddenly opened an ...