In the morning light of March 9, a long-winged plane took off from the Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, beginning the first leg of what its two pilots hope will be a historic journey.
How much dust blows across the Sahara Desert?
A set of historic photographs from NASA missions in the 1960s and 1970s is about to hit the market.
Rather than go to the post office to pick up package deliveries, you may soon be heading to Waffle House. That’s thanks to a new partnership between the chain of 24-hour waffle diners and an Atlanta-based tech startup called Roadie that’s applying the laws of the sharing economy to package delivery.
Part of the job of privacy researchers is to come up with security exploits that sound like magic, and then make them work. In 2013, there was the team that found a way to break an unbreakable encryption algorithm just by listening to the sound a computer’s processor makes while performing the encryption.
Mother Jones has reported that the Fox News host and conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly misrepresented his experiences as a correspondent in Argentina during the Falkland War in 1982.
The weather gods have not smiled on much of the United States this week.
In a recent comedy bit, the 47-year-old comedian Louis C.K. described (video) a rather traumatic pot-smoking experience with a group of 19-year-olds, remarking on how much more potent the drug was than he remembered from his own teenage years:
The news that three young Muslims were killed by a gunman in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, late afternoon Feb. 11 has spread quickly across the internet, even as the gunman’s motivations remained unknown.
About 3,200 miles down towards the center of the Earth, there is an iron-nickel ball about 760 miles in radius. Though the temperature at that depth is very high—about 5,400 degrees celsius, nearly as high as the surface of the sun and 3.5 times the temperature necessary to melt the metal at the Earth’s surface—the ball is solid due to the tremendous pressure from the mass of the rest of the Earth.
For most of our existence, humanity hasn’t been privy to a view of the far side of the moon, the hemisphere that faces away from the Earth’s surface.
It’s the end of an era for RadioShack.
Many of us, when shuffling onto a transcontinental flight, check a smartphone app to find out the weather at our destination. Now there’s an app that purports to tell you how likely you are to fall out of the sky to a fiery death somewhere over the Atlantic.
The Raspberry Pi—the credit card-sized microcomputer meant to help people learn to program—just got an upgrade.
Why do some people seem under the weather all the time, while others can share a bowl of chicken soup with a flu patient without getting the least bit sick?
About 1,300 light years (7.6 quadrillion miles) from Earth, there is a dim nebula called CG4, also known as “God’s Hand.”
One problem with air pollution is it doesn’t stay put.
It’s true: Tesla’s high performance Model S P85D has an option to switch acceleration modes from “Sport” to “Insane.”
On Jan. 26, it seemed like the whole US northeast was abuzz with worry about the blizzard coming that evening. New York City imposed a temporary transportation ban, and its mayor, Bill de Blasio, warned that the storm could be the worst the city had ever seen.
1:04 p.m. EST: New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announced that schools in the nation’s largest district will be closed Tuesday for the storm. Boston Public Schools canceled classes on both Tuesday and Wednesday.
What’s the difference between iPhone and Android users?
The vastness of space is so expansive, so inconceivable, that frankly, it makes humanity’s lot in the universe seem pretty tiny and pointless.
Across the globe, 2014 was a difficult year that eroded trust in businesses and institutions.
The world’s biggest social media company is rapidly growing its headcount. According to a Reuters report, Facebook is aiming to add 1,200 employees—which would represent a 14% increase to its current workforce—judging by openings listed on its jobs site.
