WASHINGTON — Tom Choi is leaving his position as CEO of ABS, a satellite fleet operator he co-founded in 2005. In a post to the professional networking website LinkedIn, Choi said he will continue on the Bermuda-based company’s board of directors, but will transition out of his current role. ‘[T]he […]
Daily Archives: October 27, 2017
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Astronomers may have spotted our first visitor from outside the bounds of our solar system: a hunk of ice called A/2017 U1 that a Hawaiian telescope identified on October 19. It’s already headed back out away from Earth, and while scientists can study it for another few weeks, they say that […]
Five years after Superstorm Sandy was supposed to have taught the U.S. a lesson about the dangers of living along the coast, disaster planning experts say there is no place in America truly prepared for climate change and the tempests it could bring. That is true even in New York […]
WASHINGTON — An Earth science mission launched more than 15 years ago has finally come to an end, slightly earlier than previously expected, NASA announced Oct. 27. In a statement, NASA said the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission, carried out in cooperation with the German space agency DLR, […]
Dr Sally-Ann Kitts, senior lecturer in Hispanic and Catalan Studies at the University of Bristol, said the sight of people being beaten with batons and sprayed with tear gas, as they were during the referendum vote, “now felt inevitable”. The Catalan parliament today declared independence shortly before Madrid voted to […]
One of America’s favorite pastimes is trying to reinvent its publicly funded schools. This is because reformers, including government, are often pragmatic and humble enough to admit when their ideas or their top-down approach have failed. With the United States intensely focused on fixing K-12 schools since the 1980s, the […]
HAVANA — Cuba presented its most detailed defense to date against U.S. accusations that American diplomats in Havana were subjected to mysterious sonic attacks that left them with a variety of ailments including headaches, hearing problems and concussions. In a half-hour, prime-time special Thursday titled “Alleged Sonic Attacks,” Cuban officials […]
Spain has tightened its grip on Catalonia, with Mr Rajoy announcing new elections will take place in the region on December 21 with central government ministries directly assuming the powers of the Catalan administration until then. The Government in Madrid refused to recognise Catalonia’s declaration and warned direct rule would […]