Aside from the gold, Mr. Trump has hung more than 20 portraits in the Oval Office. In addition to Mr. Washington’s above the ...

Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...

Alphabet Inc. is set to book another sizable paper gain after SpaceX completes a tender offer that effectively values the closely held company at about $800 billion. SpaceX’s insider share sale was ...

"Anything you can do in a terrestrial data center, I’m expecting to be able to be done in space." As critics have pointed out, the logistical obstacles are comically immense, from concerns over ...

On May 10, 2024, a John Deere dealer sent out a strange press release. “Please be advised that there is significant solar flare and space weather activity,” it read. The company, a maker of tractors ...

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...

We finally have our first look at Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2’s new class, the Techmarine, as well as an image of its Omnissian Axe. Publisher Focus Entertainment released one screenshot of the ...

Which electric sedan should you buy in 2026? We compare Tesla’s high-performance Model 3 with BMW’s updated i4 to find the better value. The Tesla Model 3 Performance offers superior acceleration, ...

For nine months in 2022, moss lived in space. It wasn’t in a lab aboard the International Space Station, like other gardening experiments conducted in orbit — rather, the moss was attached to the ...

A little more than a century ago, the US Army Air Service came up with a scheme for naming the military’s multiplying fleet of airplanes. The 1924 aircraft designation code produced memorable names ...

In 1986, an experiment conceived by an Appleton high school student resulted in the first and only paper ever made in space. The experiment, flown on the space shuttle Columbia, tested if paper made ...

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