2+ hour, 2+ min ago  (356+ words) How do we know this? Researchers tickled 13 captive apes " including gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees and bonobos " and recorded the results. The new research reexamined those decades-old recordings and compared them with the newly captured giggles of four young children while they…...

6+ hour, 48+ min ago  (362+ words) Building heat, tropical humidity, increasing winds, and very little rainfall. Those are our main weather stories as we work through the next seven days across North Texas. Good morning and welcome to almost Friday! I'm Meteorologist Dan Brounoff in the…...

13+ hour, 32+ min ago  (349+ words) The quake had a magnitude of 7. 2 and occurred off the eastern coast of Iwate, upgraded from an initial reading of 6. 9, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The quake had a depth of about 50 kilometers (30 miles), it said. JMA The U. S. Geological Survey…...

16+ hour, 17+ min ago  (272+ words) Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy " super-puffs the size of Jupiter. The featherweight pair " orbiting a star 1, 110 light-years away " are the biggest exoplanets found to have less density than cotton candy. That…...

18+ hour, 27+ min ago  (172+ words) Excitement was brewing at the California Science Museum on Wednesday as the Space Shuttle Endeavor was unveiled in its new home at the future Samuel Ocshin Air and Space Center. KNX News" Karen Adams reported that the reveal for Endeavor…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago  (182+ words) But it's too HOT to play with the ball! Father's Day weekend starts off hot and muggy. "Expect a hot and muggy rest of your Friday, with a couple of hit-or-miss showers and storms possible," said WWL-TV meteorologist Alexa Trischler....

5+ day, 23+ hour ago  (273+ words) TRAVERSE CITY (WWJ) -- A baby bald eagle that fell from its nest a couple of weeks ago in Northern Michigan continues to recover, but we now know that it's a girl! Snow had a fracture on each wing, and is…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (173+ words) The Tangipahoa River has already crested, and about two-and-a-half feet lower than predicted. "The forecast that we were so concerned about yesterday, the river gauge at Robert going up to 21 feet, it had built into that forecast that we were…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (119+ words) Audacy While many Louisiana residents thought flood warnings were potentially overblown before the storm hit, much of the area had heavy winds and rain that tracked with most forecasts. That said, the rainfall totals from Tropical Storm Arthur were shocking…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago  (384+ words) Good morning everyone, and welcome to Friday! It's going to be a wet and stormy morning across all of North Texas before this area of showers and thunderstorms gradually shifts south and east of the Metroplex by mid to late…...