The Bloodhound set a top speed of 501 mph in tests in South Africa. An arrow-shaped car designed to reach supersonic speeds — it’s outfitted with a jet engine and its own parachute braking system — just reached 501 mph (806 km/h)…
No, you haven’t been sucked into a low-res video game — the new Tesla Cybertruck just looks like an animated armored vehicle whose pixels are taking a while to render. In September, Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk teased that…
Children play on Marina beach in Chennai, India, which is blanketed in sea foam, Dec.1, 2019. A beach in India is coated in knee-deep foam that experts warn is toxic. But that danger hasn’t stopped tourists from frolicking in the…
The Tasmanian tiger is among the best known of Australia’s extinct species, but researchers have now revealed the extent of the crisis. It’s well established that unsustainable human activity is damaging the health of the planet. The way we use…
On April 1, 1954, he first H-bomb explosion went off at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific. Perhaps you’ve recently forgotten where you parked your car, or lost track of your house keys or your phone. You’re still better off than…
Researchers used two kinds of sonar to detect the wreck of the World War I German battlecruiser Scharnhorst. The wreck of one of the most famous German warships of World War I has been located on the seafloor near the…