NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope blasts off. | Photo: NASA / John Kraus
After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its...
As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over $30 million...
Two and a half minutes can feel almost spacious beside 47 seconds. Yet those are the bookends Gloria Mark uses to describe one of the longest-running changes her workplace research has documented: how long people remain on a screen...
Chess.com has done one thing, and one thing very well, for almost 20 years, but now it's going beyond its domain name. The biggest name in online chess quietly launched its first companion site in beta back in May:...
Somewhere between the pillow and the edge of the mattress, a nightly negotiation over territory takes place. More often than not, the pet wins.
The assumption that follows tends to be unkind. Sharing a bed with an animal gets read...
Reach a certain age and the internet fills with checklists promising to certify your life: achieve these seven things by seventy and you have lived meaningfully. The lists are usually well meant, and they tend to point at genuine...
Virginia Beach had a problem that most cities solve with geography: nowhere to put its garbage. The city sits on the flat coastal plain of the Chesapeake, with the water table lurking six to eight feet below the surface,...
In 1904, Munsey’s Magazine surveyed the private playgrounds of America’s rich and awarded Jekyll Island the full crown: the richest, the most exclusive, the most inaccessible club in the world. The judgment was barely an exaggeration. The membership roll...
Ossabaw Island sits twenty minutes by boat from Savannah, Georgia, and several decades from everywhere else. It is the state’s third-largest barrier island, 26,000 acres of beach, salt marsh and live-oak forest hung with Spanish moss, roamed by wild...
The valley floor of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is one of the most photographed landscapes in America: sagebrush flats running to the Snake River, the Teton range erupting behind them with no foothills to soften the view. Nearly all of...
