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Officials are eyeing ways to protect a threatened squirrel species amid plans to expand a dam in western Idaho

Los Angeles harbor commissioners have approved a permit for Space Exploration Technologies to build a facility to manufacture a Mars rocket that will be so big it will require an oceangoing barge for transport to launch sites

Brown University's brain science institute has been given $100 million to advance the understanding of the brain and what causes Lou Gehrig's disease, Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases

The federal government wants to judge to toss a lawsuit from fishermen trying to eliminate former President Barack Obama's Atlantic Ocean monument

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says SpaceX will build a big, new rocket in the city's port

Guitar makers hit hard by new regulations that limit imports and exports of precious rosewood

Some traditional organic farmers rebel with plans for new organic label

An organization that advises the federal government on science and technical matters has dire news for Florida's citrus industry

New York state will spend $6 million on computer training for teachers, part of a broader effort to expand access to computer science education at all levels of public schooling

Ten finalists in a contest to make money from carbon dioxide pollution announced, will share $5 million in prize money

The U.N. maritime agency is holding a weeklong meeting aimed at curbing emissions from ships

Seven decades after making key portions of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are being exposed to radiation as they tear down buildings that helped create the nation's nuclear arsenal

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 struck off the coast of Southern California, but only minor damage has been reported on one of the Channel Islands

Virgin Galactic has conducted the first powered test flight of its new space tourism rocket

A judge on Massachusetts' highest court has ordered the dismissal of thousands of cases tainted by a former chemist who authorities say was high almost every day she worked at a state drug lab for eight years

Scientists in Antarctica have harvested their first crop of vegetables grown without earth, daylight or pesticides as part of a project designed to help astronauts cultivate fresh food on other planets

Rhode Island is launching a program to buy farms and sell them to new farmers for dirt cheap

US proposes tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese products as trade tensions rise

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has turned his sights upon a longstanding federal waiver that allows California to set its own, tough tailpipe emission standards

Correction: Science Says-Coffee-Cancer Risk story