Partying Americans just got a reality check from the coronavirus
On June 6, after over 100,000 Americans had already been killed by the new coronavirus, over a dozen friends went out to party at Lynch’s Irish Pub in Jacksonville Beach,…
Elon Musk tells employees the next-gen Starship rocket is a ‘top SpaceX priority’
Now that SpaceX has successfully launched NASA astronauts into space, Elon Musk wants the company to put the pedal to the metal on developing its large capacity Starship rocket. Musk…
A big shark and a large squid fought in the deep sea
An underwater photographer snapped a curious picture of a shark off of Kona, Hawaii, in November 2019. The oceanic whitetip shark had unusual, ring-like markings on its body. The photographer,…
The cicadas aren’t invading
The sound of millions of cicadas is so deafening that George Hamilton, an entomologist, has even heard them over the rock and roll music blasting from his car speakers. In…
Plane takes flight over Washington, with no fuel. (It’s electric.)
A plane retrofit with an all-electric motor successfully took flight over Washington for 30 minutes on Thursday. The small plane, a Cessna Caravan, used a MagniX 750-horsepower motor in the…
Watch the SpaceX craft carrying NASA astronauts dock with the space station
That was smooth. (And historic.) Some 262 miles above Earth, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon craft autonomously docked to the International Space Station on Sunday at 10:16 a.m. ET, another successful achievement…
How to watch SpaceX launch its first crewed mission into space
Let’s try this again. SpaceX had planned to stage a major launch on Wednesday, sending the company’s first-ever crewed vehicle into space. The event would have also marked the first…
Hate the sound of people eating? Here are 4 ways to cope.
Internet of Yum digs into all the things that make us drool while we’re checking our feeds. Slurping. Chewing. Smacking lips. The plethora of YouTube videos showing people eating,…
Video shows precise moment of Michigan’s disastrous dam failure
[embedded content] After getting deluged with unusually extreme rains for two straight days, two critical dams in Michigan failed this week. The failures led to unprecedented flooding in Midland County,…
National parks will be bizarre this summer
A vicious wildfire closed Yosemite National Park in August 1990. Described as “no joke” by a truck driver who escaped the flames, over 6,000 firefighters combated the blaze, remembers Phil…