Many people set a goal to save $1 million for retirement. This amount may or may not be sufficient in today’s economy, but it’s at least a good start. And to get there, investing in stocks is an excellent strategy. Buying shares of the right companies — those that can generate generous returns for decades […]
One of the first sitting senators to endorse Jimmy Carter’s run for office in 1976 was a young upstart from Delaware named Joe Biden. We explore the relationship between the two men over the years. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Next week former President Jimmy Carter’s state funeral will be held at Washington’s National Cathedral. President […]
A plane carrying 181 people crashed while landing, killing most on board. Officials were investigating a possible malfunction with the landing gear and a bird strike.
Scientists’ best theories on how planets form could be wrong, new research suggests. Astronomers studying a still-forming planet beyond our solar system have found that its chemical makeup doesn’t fully match the swirling gas and dust disk from which it formed. The finding challenges standard models of planet formation and implies they may be overly […]
How do you fit 32 terabytes of storage into a hard drive? With a HAMR. Seagate has been experimenting with heat-assisted magnetic recording, or HAMR, since at least 2002. The firm has occasionally popped up to offer a demonstration or make yet another “around the corner” pronouncement. The press has enjoyed myriad chances to celebrate the […]
Twenty-five years too late to help Ross get his new couch into his apartment in “Friends,” a mathematician has finally solved the pesky “sofa problem.” The math problem delineates the largest-size sofa that can fit around a corner of a given width — exactly the problem faced by the characters in an episode of “Friends” […]
Climate change has made three-quarters of the Earth’s land permanently drier in the last three decades, a landmark United Nations (UN) report has warned. 77.6% of Earth’s land has become drier in the last three decades compared to the 30 years prior, with drylands expanding by an area larger than India to cover 40.6% of […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA announced more delays Thursday in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo. Administrator Bill Nelson said the next mission in the Artemis program — sending four astronauts around the moon and back – is now targeted for April 2026. It had been on the […]
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A white Kansas police detective accused of sexually assaulting Black women and girls and terrorizing those who tried to fight back is about to go on federal trial, part of a tangle of cases tied to decades of alleged abuse. Prosecutors say female residents of poor neighborhoods in Kansas City, […]
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) — For the nearly three decades that he was behind bars, Michael Sullivan’s mother and four siblings died, his girlfriend moved on with her life and he was badly beaten in several prison attacks. All for a murder he long insisted he never committed. Earlier this month, the 64-year-old Sullivan got a […]
