SCIENCE & TECH
By Christopher Burroughs Star Trek hero William Shatner became the world’s oldest person to travel to space on Wednesday as he reached the “final frontier” alongside a crew from Blue Origin. The four-person team launched from…
SCIENCE & TECH
By Christopher Burroughs Star Trek hero William Shatner became the world’s oldest person to travel to space on Wednesday as he reached the “final frontier” alongside a crew from Blue Origin. The four-person team launched from…
By Nathan Worcester A new paper from Columbia University’s Charles A. Taylor and Wolfram Schlenker that used NASA satellite data has shown that anywhere from 10–40 percent of improvements in key U.S. crop yields since…
By Nathan Worcester Part One of the United Nations’ Biodiversity Conference is taking place this week in the city of Kunming in the country identified as the world’s largest polluter, the People’s…
Reuters WASHINGTON—Scientists have unearthed evidence of a milestone in human culture—the earliest-known use of tobacco—in the remnants of a hearth built by early inhabitants of North America’s interior about 12,300 years…
Reuters TARTU, Estonia—Peat, plentiful in bogs in northern Europe, could be used to make sodium-ion batteries cheaply for use in electric vehicles, scientists at an Estonian university say. Sodium-ion batteries, which do not…
Reuters RAMON CRATER, Israel—From the door of the expedition base, a few small steps to the left an autonomous rover passes by. A few giant leaps to the right is…
Reuters WASHINGTON—A Facebook executive said Sunday that the company would introduce new measures on its apps to prompt teens away from harmful content, as lawmakers scrutinize how Facebook and subsidiaries like Instagram…
Reuters Facebook apologized to users for a two hour disruption to its services on Friday and blamed another faulty configuration change for its second global outage this week. The company…
Reuters SILVERSTONE, England—Daniel Craig may be saying goodbye as James Bond, but his iconic Aston Martin is about to be given a new lease of life, for an ultra-cool $1 million.…
By Reuters LONDON—Filmmaker Ben Turner has turned his lifelong passion for space exploration into an original mini series centered around American astronaut Chris Cassidy. “Among the Stars”, a six-episode docuseries, takes viewers behind…