NASA astronaut Mike Fincke said he experienced a medical event aboard the International Space Station on Jan. 7, and NASA arranged an early return for Crew-11 that splashed down Jan. 15 so he could receive advanced medical imaging and care.
A study in Science finds many North American bird species are declining at accelerating rates, with average counts down about 304 birds per survey route (roughly a 15% drop) since the late 1980s; declines are strongest in warmer areas and regions of intensive agriculture.
Actor Eric Dane’s death from ALS has renewed attention to the disease and its costs; a palliative care physician and a research lead describe care needs, hospice timing, financial strain, and ongoing scientific efforts focused on TDP-43.
A Glendale resident reports a mountain lion grabbed her five-and-a-half-year-old shih tzu, Declan, outside her home and carried the dog into nearby hills; wildlife officials have urged caution in foothill neighborhoods, including avoiding nighttime walks and keeping pets leashed.
National Weather Service probability maps show widespread chances of snow across the Northeast on Friday, with local totals up to 11 inches and winter storm warnings in parts of northern New York and Vermont.
Eric Slover, an Army helicopter pilot wounded during a Jan. 3 operation to capture Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, received the Medal of Honor during President Trump's State of the Union address.
Managers have told some non-technical staff to use internal AI tools in their workflows, and in some cases that AI use will be considered in upcoming performance reviews.
Burger King plans to test an OpenAI-powered chatbot called Patty in employee headsets at about 500 locations to provide meal-prep tips and track friendliness; the company says the effort is experimental and fewer than 100 restaurants currently test drive‑thru AI.
Ca$ino, Baby Keem's second studio album, confronts his Las Vegas upbringing and family struggles with gambling while mixing trap and West Coast sounds with more personal themes.
A study published in Nature reports that people aged 80 and older classified as SuperAgers produce at least twice as many new neurons in the hippocampus compared with typical older adults, based on post-mortem analysis of nearly 356,000 individual cell nuclei.
