Witnessing the birth of planets: Webb telescope provides unprecedented view into PDS 70 system
Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...
West Central Tribune2h
Time to talk: ‘We are not alone’
One veteran's struggle to bring transparency to secretive UFO programs are part of the bipartisan political tide reaching ...
The first experimental observation of an exotic phase of water: Plastic ice VII
In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states—solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact ...
This Ice Rotates Like Liquid but Stays Solid – Here’s How
Water isn't just liquid, ice, or vapor — under extreme conditions, it can transform into exotic phases, such as the newly ...
Smithsonian Magazine9h
A 785-Foot Airship Crashed on This Day in 1935. The Location of the Wreck Site Remained a Mystery for More Than 70 Years.
The USS Macon crash brought a quick end to the U.S. Navy’s vision of “flying aircraft carriers” powered by helium gas ...
Boom without the boom: Validation of quiet supersonic flight opens new uses for Greensboro-built planes
Boom Supersonic now says Overture can avoid sonic booms, potentially opening up overland flights even at Mach 1 or higher.
‘Americans Can and Will Die from This’: USAID Worker Details Dangers, Chaos
The sudden scapegoating of the once-bipartisan agency has left front-line workers in foreign countries stunned and abandoned, ...
How does an airplane go missing? A look at the disappearance of Alaska flight.
Planes carry transponders that transmit their real-time location. The Alaska plane stopped sharing that data on Thursday.
DeepMind claims its AI performs better than International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalists
An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google's premiere AI research lab, has surpassed the average gold medalist in ...
Space.com5d
Black holes could 'bend it like Beckham' to reveal hidden asymmetries of the universe
By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...
Lincoln Journal Star5d
McKee: Nebraska played key role in plane race
After World War I ended, 30-year-old Gen. Billy Mitchell strongly urged an air division be created, independent from the Army and Navy. He predicted the U.S. would again be in a world war which ...
Duluth News Tribune7d
1966 encounter prompts challenge: ‘Come on out and tell the truth’
A UFO encounter at a North Dakota nuclear site prompted an Air Force captain to defy an order of silence in his search for ...