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The space agency announced Thursday that the 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) chopper named Ingenuity can no longer fly because of rotor blade damage. While it remains upright and in contact with flight controllers, its $85 million mission is officially over, officials said.Originally intended as a short-term tech demo, Ingenuity logged 72 flights over three years at Mars. It accumulated more than two hours of flight time, traveling 11 miles (18 kilometers). That’s more than 14 times farther than planned, according to NASA. It…

More than 320 flights have been canceled because of a winter storm that brought snow and freezing temperatures to Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado, on Jan. 15, 2024.RJ Sangosti | Denver Post | Getty ImagesAirlines canceled more than 2,000 U.S. flights Tuesday as winter weather continued to disrupt travel for millions of travelers.Storms in the Northeast contributed to nearly 6,000 delays and snarled operations at major airports serving New York and Washington, D.C., according to flight tracker FlightAware.…

SAG-AFTRA members and supporters chant outside Paramount Studios on day 118 of their strike against the Hollywood studios on November 8, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty ImagesBefore the actors' union reached a labor deal with studios Wednesday night, Disney CEO Bob Iger told CNBC's Julia Boorstin that the strike's impact on the business had so far "been negligible."He also said that a resolution sooner rather than later would help preserve next year's summer box-office calendar – so the tentative…

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Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Let’s get right to the news.From Sarah Valenzuela: Carlos Estévez was 20 when the Rockies organization sent him to Grand Junction, Colo.This was in 2013 and Estévez, now a fan-favorite Angels closer with 12 saves, at the time was navigating the early years of his pro career. He’d spent the previous two years in the Dominican Summer League, then was sent to Tri-City, formerly a Rockies affiliate, but was there just a few days before being moved to Colorado.“I just showed up,”…

Five years ago, when Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) began making it hard for him to walk, 7-year-old Conner Curran received a blood infusion of trillions of viruses carrying a muscle gene to replace his mutant one. Within 2 months the Connecticut boy went from crawling up stairs to “flying up,” says his mother, Jessica Curran. The family and the researchers hoped he would never need another gene infusion. But the experimental treatment’s effects are already…

Clinical trial results released today by Eli Lilly and Co. indicate its antibody donanemab clearly, if perhaps modestly, slows the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Following on the heels of comparable results for a similar antibody, lecanemab, the data bolster the long-held but contested hypothesis that preventing the accumulation of a protein called beta amyloid in the brain could help the many millions of people who develop the fatal neurodegenerative…

It will take three to six months for the startup world to return to business as usual after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, the billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla predicts.Khosla said his firm, Khosla Ventures, encouraged founders of its portfolio companies to leave everything but three months of funds in Silicon Valley Bank. “We didn’t want to cause a bank run,” he said in an interview on Bloomberg Television on Friday. “Unfortunately, all our peers didn’t do the same.”US authorities have opened…

After decades of living with often excruciating pain, Victoria Gray had to get used to a new sensation in recent years: waking up without it. “It may sound crazy, but I had to pinch myself to see was I still able to feel pain,” she says. Gray, a 37-year-old mother of four from Forest, Mississippi, who was born with sickle cell disease, arguably became the star of last week’s International Summit on Human Genome Editing in London when she spoke about her…

U.S. electric vehicle startups are seeing an unsettling trend, with demand evaporating as potential customers look for deals or hold off on purchases altogether. Quarterly reports from several companies indicated weakening interest for many of their newer products, a bad sign for companies wrestling with high costs. Luxury sedan maker Lucid, pickup and SUV maker Rivian and electric semi-truck maker Nikola all flagged economic pressure, with industry experts saying price cuts by industry behemoth Tesla and the availability…