SpaceX ignites giant Starship rocket in crucial pad test
Thursday’s engine firing test at the launch pad marked a major milestone in SpaceX’s preparations to launch the massive Starship spaceship into orbit. Thirty-one of the first stage’s thirty-three booster…
Stone Age skeleton missing foot may show oldest amputation
According to a new study, the oldest known example of an amputation is the young adult skeleton discovered in a cave in Indonesia that is missing its left foot and…
Climate bill’s unlikely beneficiary: US oil and gas industry
The U.S. oil industry hit a legal roadblock in January when a judge struck down a $192 million oil and natural gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico over…
FEMA declares new strategy to engage Native American tribes
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has developed a new strategy to better engage with hundreds of Native American tribes as they face climate change-related disasters, the agency announced Thursday. FEMA…
Federal study: New climate law to slice carbon pollution 40%
Clean energy incentives in the new spending package signed this week by President Joe Biden will trim America’s emissions of heat-trapping gases by about 1.1 billion tons (1 billion metric…
NASA’s moon rocket moved to launch pad for 1st test flight
NASA’s new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad Wednesday ahead of its debut flight in less than two weeks. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket emerged from its mammoth hangar late…
Brain-eating amoeba suspected in 2nd Midwest death
A child likely died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in an eastern Nebraska river, health officials said, making it the second such probable death…
DNA, dental records identify 4 killed by California wildfire
Authorities have identified four people killed last month when California’s largest and deadliest wildfire of the year swept through a remote hamlet. DNA and dental analysis were used to identify…
Wind energy boom and golden eagles collide in the US West
The rush to build wind farms to combat climate change is colliding with preservation of one of the U.S. West’s most spectacular predators — the golden eagle — as the…
Russian spacewalk cut short by bad battery in cosmonaut suit
A Russian spacewalker had to rush back inside the International Space Station on Wednesday when the battery voltage in his spacesuit suddenly dropped. Russian Mission Control ordered Oleg Artemyev, the…