PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Researchers at Princeton University have brought a new tool into the realm of cybernetics: a 3-D printer. The scientists have devised a way to produce an earshaped chunk of silicone mixed with bovine cells and infused with tiny particles of silver that form a coiled antenna. Like any antenna, this one […]

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A U.S.-French science satellite that tracked rising sea levels for more than a decade and helped forecasters make better weather predictions worldwide has gone dark. NASA announced that it has decommissioned Jason-1 after its last remaining transmitter failed. It will run out of battery power within 90 days but remain in […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A state report reveals 2.5 million Californians have had Social Security numbers, credit card and bank accounts and other sensitive information exposed in 131 data breaches since 2010. The San Jose Mercury News reports the disclosure was made by Attorney General Kamala Harris in the first report of its kind for […]

GENEVA Global warming accelerated since the 1970s and broke more countries’ temperature records than ever before in the first decade of the new millennium, U.N. climate experts said earlier this week. A new analysis from the World Meteorological Organization says average land and ocean surface temperatures from 2001 to 2010 rose above the previous decade, […]

LONDON (AP) — British army reservists will get military pensions and other benefits as part of a government bid to boost reserve numbers, the U.K. defense secretary said. The proposals unveiled by Philip Hammond — which include rebranding the Territorial Army as the Army Reserve — come as Britain cuts its regular army from 100,000 […]

DECLO, Idaho (AP) — A southern Idaho teacher who allowed her fourth-grade students to use markers to draw on the faces of six classmates who failed to meet their reading goals will return to the Declo school for the 2013-14 school year. Cassia County school board member Steve Lynch tells The Times-News that Summer Larsen’s […]

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — More than two dozen people were injured when a wood platform holding live fireworks tipped over, sending the pyrotechnics into a crowd at a Fourth of July show northwest of Los Angeles, authorities said today. Between 8,000 and 10,000 revelers were settling into their seats for the fireworks extravaganza at […]

The Times Record reserves this space to correct errors appearing in our news columns. We ask readers who are aware of factual errors to telephone Managing Editor Bob Mentzinger at 504-8209. The town of Freeport will conduct one District 1 workshop dedicated to quiet zones in the downtown district on July 16, not four such […]