Coping advice from people with the world’s most stressful jobs
LIFE IS RARELY WORRY-FREE, but unprecedented angst has become a constant. Beyond the regular challenges of everyday existence—chaotic households, traffic jams, overbearing bosses—the looming presence...
View ArticleThese new robots will plunge into the ocean’s most alien depths
At the bottom of the Mariana Trench, at a place called the Challenger Deep near Guam, 36,000 feet beneath the surface of the ocean, the pressures from the water above reach a crushing eight tons per...
View ArticleRalphie from ‘A Christmas Story’ could have been the first child in space....
Countless children dream of going to space, but one 14-year-old in 1986 may actually have had a shot at it: Peter Billingsley. Billingsley played the adorable, doe-eyed 9-year old Ralphie Parker in...
View ArticleSpaceX Starships keep exploding, but it’s all part of Elon Musk’s plan
Update on March 4: Yesterday, Starship number SN10 exploded on the ground after landing. That marks the third consecutive explosion of a SpaceX Starship rocket. The story below, first published on...
View ArticleWhy the Beirut blast created a mushroom cloud
The powerful explosion that rocked Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday has so far killed more than 150 people, injured thousands, and destroyed dozens of buildings in the country’s capital city. But one...
View ArticleWhale ‘roadkill’ is on the rise off California. A new detection system could...
Last June, five biologists living and working at the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge off the coast of Northern California gazed across the ocean from a lighthouse and noticed spouts coming...
View ArticleHow floating power ports could help cargo ships cut their air pollution
The pandemic has exposed serious weaknesses in the global supply chain, causing a backup of cargo ships in seaports around the world. While consumers have experienced rising prices and severe delivery...
View ArticleElectric vehicle fires are rare, but challenging to extinguish
Around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 17 near a Houston subdivision, a 2019 Tesla Model S jumped the road and collided with a tree. News reports focused on the fact that no one seemed to be behind the...
View ArticleWhy a record number of container ships are backed up off the coast of California
For the past year, beachgoers off the coast of Southern California have been treated to an unusual sight: dozens of hulking container ships moored offshore as they await entry into the ports of Los...
View ArticleThe Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has one star that always rises to the top
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the iconic, globally-beloved event that heralds the beginning of the winter holiday season, will undergo some of the most drastic changes in its 94-year history due...
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