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Mud covers the inside of a property after a series of storms on Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025, in Wrightwood, Calif. (AP Photo/William Liang)

Photos show California homes buried in mud and debris during Christmas storms

7:57 AM on Friday, December 26

New materials, old physics – the science behind how your winter jacket keeps you warm

6:39 AM on Friday, December 26

Welfare Solutions for Jobless Growth in the AI Era: Seoul Stepping Stone Income

6:00 AM on Friday, December 26

This photo provided by the family shows, from left, Kaila, Suze, Ryu and Andrew Lopez at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles in August 2025. (Lopez family via AP)

'The best gift ever': Baby is born after the rarest of pregnancies, defying all odds

6:00 AM on Wednesday, December 24

Doctors say just 1 in 30,000 pregnancies occur in the abdomen instead of the uterus

FILE - Mud and debris is strewn on Fryman Road during an atmospheric river Feb. 5, 2024, in Studio City Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

What's an atmospheric river? AP explains the weather phenomenon

11:49 AM on Monday, December 22

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky

RI Research Instruments Announces Major Orders for Enabling Technology for the Gamma-Ray Source of the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI)

7:04 AM on Monday, December 22

Spanish Mountain Gold Drilling Extends the Orca Fault Target Trend to a Strike Length Over 500 Metres Intersecting Numerous High-Grade Results Including 40.00 Metres Grading 0.98 g/t Gold

4:00 AM on Monday, December 22

The H3 rocket (8th) by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), carrying a navigation satellite, is launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Minamitane, Tanegashima island, southern Japan Monday, Dec.22, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan's new flagship H3 rocket fails to put geolocation satellite into orbit

12:26 AM on Monday, December 22

Japan's space agency says its H3 rocket has failed to place a navigation satellite into orbit

This image provided by Blue Origin, Michaela Benthaus poses after the Blue Origin's capsule landed on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025 in West Texas. (Blue Origin via AP)

Paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space

6:18 AM on Saturday, December 20

A paraplegic engineer has become the first wheelchair user in space, blasting off with Blue Origin

FILE - An exam room at a medical clinic in Detroit on July 29, 2015. (Charles V. Tines/Detroit News via AP, File)

You finally got a doctor's appointment. Here's how to get the most out of it

5:05 AM on Saturday, December 20

It's not that unusual for a 20-something to text Mom from the doctor's office for help answering a health question

HRP-C Welcomes the Confirmation of Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator

2:58 PM on Friday, December 19

DC-PERPETUAL-ATOMICS

10:00 AM on Friday, December 19

I study rat nests − here’s why rodents make great archivists

5:18 AM on Friday, December 19

Nodding off is dangerous. Some animals have evolved extreme ways to sleep in precarious environments

5:01 AM on Friday, December 19

Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways

Sensorion to Present at the 44th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

10:30 PM on Thursday, December 18

This illustration provided by NASA in December 2025 depicts the aftermath of a collision between two massive space rocks orbiting the star Fomalhaut. (NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford, Space Telescope Science Institute via AP)

Hubble Space Telescope spies dusty debris from two cosmic collisions

11:25 AM on Thursday, December 18

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has gotten a rare peek at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery

Manifold Raises $18 Million Series B to Define Vertical AI for Life Sciences and Accelerate Life-changing Medicines to Patients

9:30 AM on Thursday, December 18

FILE - People look up to the sky from an observatory near the village of Avren, Bulgaria, Aug. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov, File)

Catch the Ursid meteor shower as it peaks just before Christmas

5:13 AM on Thursday, December 18

The Ursid meteor shower is bringing fiery streaks to nighttime and early morning skies

FILE - Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, right, walks past as police officers block an entrance to the Louvre after thieves carried out a daylight raid on French crown jewels, in Paris, Oct. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

A mysterious fedora, a thieving cat and other stories that made us smile in 2025

9:04 PM on Wednesday, December 17

The past year wasn't all doom and gloom; there was plenty to smile about, too

FILE - People celebrate the Winter Solstice sunrise celebrations at Stonehenge, England, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Anthony Upton, file)

The shortest day of the year is descending on the Northern Hemisphere. Here's what to know

9:01 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Sunday marks the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, signaling the start of astronomical winter

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