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The baby owl that Bart Richwalski picked up in the fall was unlike anything the wildlife rehabilitator had seen. The bird had become trapped in a truck-mounted concrete mixer, leaving hardened concrete caked across the owl’s small body, from his face to his tail feathers.

STARBASE, Texas – SpaceX on Friday completed the 12th uncrewed test flight of its next-generation Starship, a high-stakes trial run of a newly upgraded version of the spacecraft as Elon Musk’s rocket company nears a record-breaking public listing.

The last known caterpillar of its kind has died.

Alongside the winding Columbia River and into central Washington’s expansive, barren landscapes, a plant is in bloom, extending roots into what remains of the region’s sandy dunes.

Archaeologists working in Egypt have discovered a remarkable combination of Homeric epic and Egyptian ritual: a 2,000-year-old mummy with a papyrus fragment of the “Iliad” sealed in a clay packet outside its wrappings.

A new giant dinosaur species dubbed the “Last Titan” has been discovered in Thailand, researchers announced this week.

A new solar and gas microgrid will power East Central’s Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in the event of an outage, developers celebrating the completion of the project said at a Tuesday panel and ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Paul Lewis, an architectural professor at Princeton University has built a cottage 120 miles outside of New York City made of straw. Lewis believes straw can do much more than provide bedding in a horse stable; it can also provide the stable's frame, walls and insulation. He and his team have showcased the agricultural byproduct's potential by building a tiny home – the first of its kind, he said – made almost entirely of straw.

With each step you take, coordinated contractions in your abdominal muscles help keep you stable and upright.

Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX will see a vehicle reach the moon much sooner and under much different circumstances than the company imagined. 

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it would permit some patients with deadly pancreatic cancer to receive early access to a promising, highly coveted drug.

J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human genome, died Wednesday in San Diego. He was 79.

About a half-mile from the Barker Road Trailhead, the brush changes.

Poop has plenty of potential.

BALTIMORE – Tuberculosis infected more than 8 million people in 2024 – surpassing COVID-19 and marking a record high since 1995 – as a new Johns Hopkins-developed vaccine emerges amid rising antibiotic resistance.

Pop quiz: If you’re an astronaut trying to endure extreme conditions, where should you look for inspiration? Sandra Bullock in “Gravity”? Ryan Gosling in “Project Hail Mary”? Wrong. Try an asexual reproductive spore.

NASA’s newest space telescope is ready for its date with a Falcon Heavy rocket in September, ahead of schedule and under budget, agency officials said Tuesday.

Astronauts might get a good night of sleep in space with a new test developed at Washington State University.