PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Loons are on the mend in Maine, filling more of the state's lakes and ponds with their haunting calls, although conservationists say the birds aren't out of the woods yet. Maine ...

If you're planning a ski trip this winter, New Hampshire has one of the best ski hotels in the country, according to USA TODAY's 10BEST Readers' Choice Awards. It's the only East Coast ski spot to ...

IBM has introduced two different quantum chips that it believes could help demonstrate "quantum advantage," or the ability for a quantum computer to solve a problem faster than a classical computer, ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 12 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab announced on Wednesday it has built a new experimental quantum computing chip called Loon that demonstrates it hit a key milestone toward ...

One sunny morning in mid-September, a truck crunched over gravel in a Boonville marshaling yard, a parking lot where National Grid keeps construction equipment used in rebuilding transmission lines.

It's peak summer on Minnesota's Gull Lake Chain. Boats are buzzing, jet skis slicing and loons are calling. "So it sounds like a territorial challenge that's starting," said Sheila Johnston, listening ...

GERMFASK, MI - Michigan’s best-known wildlife mom has done it again, hatching chicks #43 and #44 last week at the Seney National Wildlife Refuge in the Upper Peninsula. This makes the loon, known as ...

Vermont’s adult loon population is at an all-time high, but scientists have noticed a recent decrease in the number of chicks surviving. In 2024, Vermont saw a record-breaking 123 nesting pairs, 11 of ...

Loon Lake has had its share of celebrated visitors over the years, among them George Gershwin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Red Skelton, and three U.S. presidents. Unless you know somebody, you ...

The world’s oldest common loon - and the most productive documented loon mother - touched down last week in the Upper Peninsula nature preserve that she calls her seasonal home. The loon, known as Fe, ...