Geeks of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your mint-condition, plastic-wrapped first editions of “Fantastic Four” comics from the 1970s, or maybe that set of lobby cards from the “Terminator 2” movie. The nerd universe converges on San Diego this week for the four-day Comic-Con (pictured), which opened on Thursday. About...

Steam is rising from a destroyed building that houses a reactor at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the operator of the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co, said on Thursday. The utility, widely known as Tepco, said the levels of radioactivity around the plant had remained unchanged and it was still looking into what triggered the...

For the first time, astronomers have detected the color of a planet beyond our solar system: It’s blue, but not because there’s water on its surface. It doesn’t even have a “surface.” Instead, the  color is thought to come from glassy grains of silicate in its choking atmosphere. The planet, known as HD 189733b, is a blazing hot...

Sixty-six years after newspaper headlines heralded the discovery of a “flying saucer” in Roswell, N.M., the famous 1947 UFO incident is passing from the realm of eyewitness accounts into the realm of legend. That legend came to life again for the anniversary, in the form of a Google Doodle game that lightheartedly retraces the Roswell story. The...

The KTALK Family would like to wish you all a very Happy 4 of July Holiday!!!

A wave of record-setting, life-threatening heat is expected to blaze across the West this weekend, with temperatures in some areas projected to top 120 degrees. Death Valley, Calif., could even top 130 degrees Saturday through Monday, just below the world record high of 134 recorded there on July 10, 1913, The Weather Channel said. The cause is a high pressure...