The thumb-sized millipede that crawls around the forest floor of Southwest Virginia’s Cumberland Mountains has more color combinations than any other millipede discovered.
Daily Archives: January 26, 2018
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A particular set of chemical reactions governs everything from bridges corroding in water to your breakfast breaking down in your gut. One crucial part involves electrons striking water, and scientists still have to use ballpark numbers for certain parts of the equation when they use computers to model them. An […]
Investigators believe a billionaire couple found dead in their mansion last month were murdered, Toronto police announced Friday. Barry Sherman, the founder of the Canadian drug company Apotex, and his wife, Honey, were found dead in their mansion on Dec. 15. Police at the time called the deaths suspicious, but […]
After an ultimatum by the U.S. Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics said Friday it will comply with a demand for its entire board of directors to resign within a week over handling of the Larry Nassar sex-abuse scandal. The three top members of the board resigned earlier in the week, months […]
Are you ready to rock? NASA’s Scott Tingle is. Before Tingle was tucking into spacesuits and floating around in microgravity on the International Space Station, he was delivering out-of-this-world riffs and licks as part of a Boston-area rock band. A fascinating NASA video released Friday delves into how Tingle’s rocker […]
SAN MATEO, Calif. — Intuitive Machines LLC has won a $4.1 million verdict from a federal court jury in a dispute regarding work it was doing on software and a return vehicle for Moon Express. In a Jan. 12 verdict, a U.S. District Court jury in Delaware awarded $4.1 million […]
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE The estate of a late playwright claims the premise of the Oscar-nominated movie “The Shape of Water” was lifted from a 1969 play without permission. David Zindel, the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist […]
Marvin used to have a job. A real job. The kind that came with health insurance and paid days off and lunch breaks. He earned about $250 a week – a small fortune in South Africa, where more than 50 percent of the population lives on less than $80 per person […]