CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The International Space Station was a cramped, humid, puny three rooms when the first crew moved in. Twenty years and 241 visitors later, the complex has a lookout tower, three toilets, […]
Last month, I did something I used to do often before the pandemic: I watched a rehearsal. But this time it wasn’t a matter of sitting in a concert hall and watching a group work […]
A new competition launched by the U.S. Army hopes to harvest innovative ideas from the bottom up By SARAH BLAKE MORGAN Associated Press October 28, 2020, 9:17 PM • 3 min read CHARLOTTE, N.C. — […]
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. My colleagues wrote about the eye-popping sales numbers coming from America’s technology superstars, including Google, Facebook and […]
A NASA spacecraft more than 200 million miles away has tucked more than 2 pounds of asteroid samples into a capsule for return to Earth, after losing some of its precious loot By MARCIA DUNN […]
Here at Daily Distortions, we try to debunk false and misleading information that has gone viral. We also want to give you a sense of how popular that misinformation is, in the overall context of […]
A new study finds that well more than a million tons of plastic waste in the U.S. isn’t going where it should, instead ending up in oceans and rivers and along roads By SETH BORENSTEIN […]
Instagram on Thursday took aim at the spread of misinformation on its platform, announcing that it would temporarily eliminate users’ ability to view some recent posts ahead of Election Day. In two tweets, Instagram said […]
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — The saucer-sized footprints in the mud around the bloody, disemboweled bison carcass were unmistakable: wolves. A pack of 35 named after a nearby snow-dusted promontory, Junction Butte, now were snoozing […]
In Georgia, a database that verifies voter signatures was locked up by Russian hackers in a ransomware attack that also dumped voters’ registration data online. In California and Indiana, Russia’s most formidable state hackers, a […]
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