SpaceX delivers world’s 1st inflatable room for astronauts
By MARCIA DUNN SpaceX has made good on a high-priority delivery: the world’s first inflatable room for astronauts. A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station on…
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Syrian forces enter IS-held Palmyra; intense clashes with IS
By ALBERT AJI and SINAN SALAHEDDIN Backed by Russian airstrikes, Syrian government forces on Thursday pushed into the ancient town of Palmyra that has been held by the Islamic State…
Panel: Finding climate fingerprints in wild weather is valid
By SETH BORENSTEIN Climate science has progressed so much that experts can accurately detect global warming’s fingerprints on certain extreme weather events, such as a heat wave, according to a…
Breakthrough: Scientists detect Einstein’s gravity ripples
By SETH BORENSTEIN In an announcement that electrified the world of astronomy, scientists said Thursday that they have finally detected gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that…
GOP-led Congress unlikely to OK Obama’s new clean energy bid
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Saturday that he will ask the Republican-led Congress to double spending on research and development into clean energy by 2020.…
Over 100 missing, 14 dead as strong quake rattles Taiwan
By GLADYS TSAI Rescuers were searching late Saturday for more than 100 people still missing after a powerful, shallow earthquake struck southern Taiwan before dawn, causing a high-rise residential building…
For Brazil’s rich and poor, disparate response to Zika
By JENNY BARCHFIELD and MAURICIO SAVARESE Two Brazilian women, two pregnancies, one nightmare. But two very different stories. Regina de Lima and Tainara Lourenco became pregnant at a scary moment…
30 years since Challenger: New voice at astronauts’ memorial
By MARCIA DUNN As families of the lost Challenger astronauts gather with NASA to mark the space shuttle accident’s 30th anniversary, there’s a new voice to address the crowd. June…