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The Soyuz MS-22 rocket is launched to the International Space Station with Expedition 68 astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA, and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos onboard, on Sept. 21, 2022, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Russia launches a mission to give stranded space station crew members a ride home

The Russian spacecraft that brought the three crew members to the ISS in the fall later experienced a leak in its radiator cooling loop. A replacement ship launched on Friday.

The last class session with students from Alfred Nobel University in Dnipro, Ukraine, and science and engineering students from Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colo.

Unlikely connection: college students in Ukraine and the U.S. form a bond

Learning American pop culture while attending college during a war: Students in Dnipro, Ukraine, and Golden, Colo., form an unlikely connection.

Rachel Maryam Smith fell in love with the ethereal beauty of giant soap bubbles several years ago and began creating them at sunset events in Santa Cruz, Calif. When enjoying bubbles together, "there is a euphoric point I have observed my participants reach," she says.

Here's why you should make a habit of having more fun

Happiness can sometimes feel just out of reach. But having more fun? You've got this — and those giggles and playful moments can make a big difference to your health and well-being.

UC San Diego engineering professor Sheng Xu holds a small cardiac imaging monitor that can be worn on the chest to examine the heart. Feb 2, 2023

Wearable patch can measure a heart’s performance

UCSD scientists designed a wearable patch they said can connect to a laptop to show you the functions of your heart.

An electric vehicle owned by the Army recharges at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. The base plans to eventually have hundreds of electric vehicles to comply with a Pentagon mandate that all military branches convert their fleets of non-combat vehicles from gas powered to electric by 2035.

The military is converting to electric vehicles on bases, but charging them remains a challenge

One base in Missouri is outsourcing the charging stations to the local utility co-op.

In this April 13, 2017 photo provided by NASA, technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The telescope is designed to peer back so far that scientists will get a glimpse of the dawn of the universe about 13.7 billion years ago and zoom in on closer cosmic objects with sharper focus.

NASA's Webb telescope has discovered its first exoplanet

The exoplanet was found using a satellite and spectrography. It has a similar size as Earth, but is much hotter and completes its orbit around its star in two days.

Marshmallow Peeps candy is on display at a store in Lafayette, Calif., on March 24, 2023. A California lawmaker wants to ban certain types of chemical additives in food dyes used in popular candies like Skittles and Peeps. They are already banned in the European Union based on public health concerns.

California lawmaker wants Peeps to change its ingredients

A bill in the California Legislature would ban five chemicals found in some of the most popular candy in the U.S., including Peeps.

The Heikoff Giant Dome Theatre Presents 'Great Bear Rainforest: Land of The Spirit Bear'

From the Fleet Science Center: The Fleet Science Center is home to Southern California's only Giant Dome Theater, known as the Eugene Heikoff and Marilyn Jacobs Heikoff Giant Dome Theater. Immersive Experiences in the Heikoff Giant Dome Theater include IMAX movies, documentary films and cutting-edge educational programming. About the documentary: Great Bear Rainforest tells the story of one of the rarest animals on Earth—the fabled all-white Spirit Bear—and its ancient forest home. Hidden from the outside world, the Great Bear Rainforest is one of the planet’s most exquisite and secluded wildernesses. Found on Canada’s rugged Pacific coast, it is the largest temperate coastal rainforest in the world and is home to indigenous First Nations peoples, who have provided stewardship of the forest for millennia. Embark on a remarkable journey into a land of grizzlies, coastal wolves, sea otters, and humpback whales—and discover the secret world of the Spirit Bear. Narrated by Ryan Reynolds. Watch trailer here! Showtimes | Daily at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Location | The Heikoff Giant Dome Theatre at The Fleet Science Center Get tickets here! IMAX Movie Tickets: $18 For more information, please visit fleetscience.org/shows/great-bear-rainforest or call (619) 238-1233.

The Fleet Science Center Presents: 'Moonfall'

Join us at the Fleet's Heikoff Giant Dome Theater in the opening night of "Moonfall," the new sci-fi adventure film that will take you of the planet! The world stands on the brink of annihilation when a mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling toward a collision course with Earth. With only weeks before impact, NASA executive Jocinda "Jo" Fowler teams up with a man from her past and a conspiracy theorist for an impossible mission into space to save humanity. Showtimes • Friday, February 4 at 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. • Saturday, February 5 at 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. • Sunday, February 6 at 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. • Thursday, February 10 at 5:30 and 8 p.m. Get tickets here! General admission starting at $18. For more information, please visit fleetscience.org/shows/moonfall or call (619) 238-1233.

A pedestrian wears a mask while walking past a sign for a Whole Foods Market in San Francisco, Tuesday, March 31, 2020.

Lawsuit alleges Whole Foods has antibiotics in its beef labeled antibiotic-free

The lawsuit also claims Whole Foods financially exploited its customers by charging significantly more for its meat products compared to competitors, under the guise that their products are healthier.

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