Senators urge halt to wildfire betting markets after more than $1.2M in bets were placed during Palisades and Eaton fires
SAN JOSE, Calif. — California Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, along with seven other U.S. senators, are…
‘Launching anywhere, anytime and without compromise’: Rocket Lab unveils new ‘GHOST’ portable spaceport system
Rocket Lab plans to start launching even more frequently and flexibly, thanks to a new portable spaceport system…
Physicists Shatter Quantum Entanglement Distance Record With 420 Kilometers of Optical Fiber
Maintaining a long-distance relationship may be difficult for humans, but it’s even more difficult for entangled states. The…
Boater runs over manatee in Shem Creek, witnesses say warnings were ignored
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) — A video of a boat running over a manatee in Shem Creek is…
The stripes on Perseverance’s parachute were mostly there so engineers could see how the canopy was oriented, but the pattern also hid a message in binary, and the internet decoded it within hours of the landing — a motto, and a set of coordinates pointing at a spot on Earth
A parachute about 70 feet across has to snap open at faster-than-sound speed in Mars’s thin air. When…
NOAA says the Lower 48 US states set a record for hottest month in July
KENSINGTON, Maryland (AP) — The contiguous United States sizzled to its hottest month ever last month, according to…
The Odds of Finding Water on Mars
Where would you land on Mars if the water had to be underneath you? It is not an…
Engineer’s 88-pound trebuchet makes projectile fly at supersonic speeds
UK-based engineer Tom Stanton has successfully built a trebuchet that can send projectiles flying at supersonic speeds. Although,…
In 2017, a young woman glanced at a solar eclipse for only a handful of seconds, and days later doctors found the exact shape of the eclipse burned into the back of her eye. What she began drawing to describe her ruined vision matched that shape almost perfectly.
The eclipse of 21 August 2017 was, in the specific sense that matters to astronomers, an ordinary eclipse.…
Can the searing European summer put climate action back on the agenda – or will disaster response take over?
Intense heat, unprecedented wildfires and savage droughts have hit Europe hard this northern summer. More than 25,000 people…
Rocket Lab Establishes Rocket Lab Germany to Deliver Sovereign Space Capabilities to Europe
Rocket Lab Corporation MUNICH, Aug. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global leader…
Indian Physicist Deepak Dhar Wins 2026 Dirac Medal For Work In Statistical Mechanics
Indian theoretical physicist Deepak Dhar has been awarded the 2026 Dirac Medal by the International Centre for Theoretical…