LAUNDRY AND USING FILTERED WATER FOR DRINKING. THERE ARE MORE HOMELESS PEOPLE ON THE STREETS OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY. A RECENT COUNT FOUND MORE THAN 7400 PEOPLE WITHOUT HOUSING. KCRA 3’S PEYTON HEADLEE ...

If you could take an apple and break it into smaller and smaller parts, you would find molecules, then atoms, followed by subatomic particles like protons and the quarks and gluons that make them up.

Volunteers fan out throughout San Diego County to find homeless people on the streets, in canyons, parking lots, and more for the Point-in-Time Count on Jan. 29, 2026. (File photo by Thomas ...

Sperm whales: They’re just like us. An international team of researchers, including marine biologists and linguists, reports that it has detected signs of a “highly complex” phonetic alphabet in the ...

Americans now need $1.46 million to retire comfortably, according to the 2026 edition of a well-known financial planning survey from Northwestern Mutual. The retirement “magic number” estimates how ...

Protesters filled the streets Saturday at more than 3,300 rallies across all 50 states for No Kings, a movement that bills itself as nonviolent opposition to what organizers view as authoritarian ...

The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Monday that mail-in ballots received after polls close on Election Day should be counted, posing major implications for November’s midterm elections. Mississippi ...

Fifty-eight years after it first appeared, string theory remains the most popular candidate for the “theory of everything,” the unified mathematical framework for all matter and forces in the universe ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics are in the books. The two-week competition was capped by a thrilling gold medal game in Men's Hockey where Team USA outlasted Canada to win the event for the first time in 46 ...

In our conversation about numbers that explain the world, we’re looking at the point-in-time count. So far in Headway’s weekly conversation about the numbers that help us understand our world, we’ve ...

King County’s homelessness authority is expecting to see another increase in the region’s homeless population this year, as volunteers complete the final surveys for the latest Point-in-Time Count, a ...

A woman gets emotional around a makeshift memorial honoring Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer the day before, near the site of the shooting in Minneapolis, on January 8, 2026. Credit: ...