A sounding rocket carried four university projects briefly into space Sunday after rough weather delayed the launch several times at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. The 43-foot-tall Terrier-Improved Malemute rocket launched at 6:51 a.m., reaching an altitude of 107 miles above Earth before descending into the Atlantic Ocean, according to NASA. Launches were postponed Thursday-Saturday due […]
Boeing South Carolina will celebrate Sunday night as it prepares to deliver its first 787-10 Dreamliner this week. The aircraft, built for Singapore Airlines, was constructed at its North Charleston assembly facility. Singapore Airlines is the launch customer of the 787-10, Boeing’s newest Dreamliner design, and ordered 30 of them in October. It has also […]
SAN FRANCISCO — As Facebook continues to buffet winds of criticism, its founder took out full page ads in U.S. and British newspapers Sunday to apologize to consumers for not properly securing their personal data. “This was a breach of trust, and I’m sorry we didn’t do more at the time,” Mark Zuckerberg said in […]
Medical students say they currently learn almost nothing about the way diet and lifestyle affect health – and they should be taught more. They say what they are taught is not practical or relevant to most of the medical problems they see in GP surgeries, clinics and hospitals. A leading GP estimated that up to […]
Oh, what a trip it’s been for the Curiosity rover on Mars. This week, NASA’s nuclear-powered rover celebrated its 2,000th Martian day (or Sol) on the Red Planet, but don’t expect a pit stop any time soon. Curiosity’s milestone day caught the rover in the act of climbing 3-mile-high (5 kilometers) Mars mountain called Mount […]
Summer is just around the corner, and with that comes the busy season for cruise liners. This year it seems that Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE: RCL) will be boasting the biggest boat of the group, as it now owns the largest cruise ship on the planet. This titanic undertaking took 36 months and 4,700 […]
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Not everyone has time to sit down and eat at a restaurant. Maybe they just want to have a few moments to themselves with a meal already prepared. Several local restaurants offer food to go, but what should people do about to-go tipping? Sure, you’re getting the same food, but the service […]
Women who sweat it out during pregnancy will likely have a sweet reward at the end, according to a new study. Researchers in Spain found that women who exercise just three times per week during pregnancy have a shorter labor. In the study, a group of around 500 women were divided into two groups. One […]
A defunct Chinese space station, Tiangong-1, is expected to fall to Earth any day now—on March 31, give or take a few days. When it does, it will be the largest manmade object to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in a decade. As the day draws near, Vishnu Reddy, University of Arizona assistant professor of planetary sciences, […]
For those trying to find affordable housing in Miami Beach, it’s been a long wait: More than 500 households have been on the city’s waitlist since 2015, while the Beach’s nonprofit affordable-housing provider has 1,200 people in its backlog. But despite a huge demand for cheaper apartments on the Beach, the city is actually losing […]
Can certain interior design features make you hungry for a hamburger? Some would say yes, and McDonald’s offers a master class in how to do it. Your craving for a quick Big Mac may send you to the door of a McDonald’s MCD, -1.31% but once you’re inside the restaurant, a carefully orchestrated set of […]
Weight loss can sometimes seem impossible because even after hard-won success, the pounds can creep back. “Ninety-five percent of people who embark on a diet on their own will fail or gain their weight back at the six- or 12-month mark,” Dr. David Prologo, an interventional radiologist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, […]
