
Newser - 1 day 15 hours ago
A long-vanished giant of the ancient world is being digitally reconstructed for modern eyes, block by painstaking block. The New York Times reports on the Pharos Project , a French- and Egyptian-led effort to virtually rebuild the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the 460-foot beacon that once rivaled the Great Pyramid in height...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 16 hours ago
Artemis, depending on whom you ask, is NASA's bid to reclaim its heritage, to resume the business of human exploration, to take astronauts to the moon and beyond and win what's been billed by some U.S. politicians as the "new space race" with China . Artemis II , the project's first circumlunar test mission with a crew, is now preparing for launch, perhaps in March. If it succeeds, and if NASA can deliver on an 18 December executive order from the Trump administration , Artemis...

BBC - 1 day 17 hours ago
Experts call for urgent action by businesses to restore the natural systems that keep them running.

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 19 hours ago
California has set aside about $165 million in vouchers to subsidize the purchase of the Tesla Semi an electric vehicle that critics say is still not road-worthy.

Wired - 1 day 19 hours ago
General Galactic, cofounded by a former SpaceX engineer, plans to test its water-based propellant this fall. If successful, it could help usher in a new era of space travel. That's a big "if."...

Newser - 2 days 22 min ago
Los Angeles County just got a visitor it hasn't seen in more than 100 years: a wild gray wolf. State wildlife officials say a 3-year-old female, tagged BEY03F and wearing a GPS collar, crossed into the mountains north of Santa Clarita around 6am Saturday, the Los Angeles Times reports. Earlier...