SCIENCE

ATLANTA  — The Milwaukee Bucks were an instant success in the NBA, winning a championship in just their third season and reaching the finals again… Read more

REDDING, Calif.  — Firefighters were making progress Friday against Northern California forest fires that burned several homes and forced thousands… Read more

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Elsa raced toward Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Saturday, where it threatened to unleash flooding and landslides… Read more

SEATTLE — The hottest day of an unprecedented and dangerous heat wave scorched the Pacific Northwest on Monday, with temperatures obliterating records… Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts worked to install another new solar panel outside the International Space Station on Friday, making their third spacewalk… Read more

JIUQUAN, China — A Chinese spaceship carrying a three-person crew docked with China’s new space station at the start of 3-month mission Thursday, marking… Read more

Vaccine maker Novavax said Monday its COVID-19 shot was highly effective against the disease and also protected against variants in a large study in… Read more

GENEVA — Exit polls on Sunday indicated that Swiss voters appear to have narrowly rejected a proposed “carbon dioxide law” that would have hiked fees… Read more