Science

  LAS VEGAS — The federal government wants a judge to reject Nevada’s request for a court order to remove weapons-grade plutonium from a site north of Las...

  SAN DIEGO -- Many across California witnessed a row of fluttering lights in the night sky were left pondering possibilities, including the existence of aliens and, well,...

Thanks to a three-decade-old law, more growth in Denver means more public art. Denver Public Art, created in 1988, works like this: Every time there’s a new capital...

Apple announced today that Apple Pay will be coming to mass transit systems in major US cities later this year. Portland, Chicago and New York City will be the first...

  Mars is about to get its first U.S. visitor in years: a three-legged, one-armed geologist to dig deep and listen for quakes. NASA’s InSight makes its grand...

  Two Bellingham Fire Department officers are no longer with the department after personnel practiced multiple intubations on a dead body in July. The Bellingham Herald reported that an investigation...

  The bone had been cleaned, cut, pulverized, chemically treated and incubated five times before it produced enough DNA for a positive identification. The first two attempts were...

  A near-Earth object (NEO), a scientific designation for a space object that’s a whole lot easier to pronounce if you just say “comet” or “asteroid,” is hurtling...

  Griffith Observatory is usually closed on Mondays, but this time it held a fun red planet party as Mars comes unusually close to earth. The observatory expect...

  Many anxious American farmers are delaying purchases and investment while hoping for a truce in a U.S.-China trade war that has left their crops at a competitive...