On January 14, Charles Foehner will begin serving a four-year prison sentence. Yes, New Yorkers, we can finally rest easy. We got him. And by him, I mean a 67-year-old man who poses no danger to society. Foehner is a retired doorman with the gift of gab, a devoted wife, and a habit of saying…
“It’s hard to describe how epic this comeback was after our first Falcon 9 launch failure,” Koenigsmann said. As he, Musk, and the others marveled up at that sooty rocket, illuminated by flood lights beneath dark and starry skies, they must have wondered if this moment could ever be eclipsed. “It just felt so massive.”…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Dams across the United States are in dire need of repairs, and the critical infrastructure may be even worse off than engineers anticipated. According to geoscientists, over 2,500 of the more than 16,700 structures in the country are classified as high…
The House voted down a pair of measures to halt strikes on alleged drug boats and on Venezuelan land on Wednesday, hours after President Donald Trump announced a blockade on the South American country. Democrats sponsoring the measures were able to peel off only two Republicans on the first vote and three on the second…
A clinical trial has found that a drug may significantly reduce breathing disruptions in obstructive sleep apnea. Credit: Stock Sulthiame reduced breathing interruptions in sleep apnea patients, pointing toward a viable drug treatment. A European clinical trial has found that the drug sulthiame can reduce breathing pauses and improve sleep quality in people with obstructive…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although astronomers are still searching for concrete answers, a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters may detail the historic explosion about 1.3…
Washington — The Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, drawing an angry response from China. The State Department announced the sales late Wednesday during a nationally televised address by President Trump, who made scant mention of foreign…
Reports are now filtering through all the business chatter about exactly how much dough Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav stands to make from the company’s big sale. And, inevitably, it’s a jaw-dropping sum no matter who ends up taking control of the media empire. The term “golden parachute” has rarely been so evocatively applied,…
Now, finally, he will get a chance to act, rather than react to everyone else. As the Project Athena plan clearly demonstrates, Isaacman has a good handle on the problems besetting NASA, an aging and increasingly bureaucratic agency. NASA can still do great things, but it has become almost infinitely harder since the heady days…
There is a world where we did not get to this point. Pope dislocated his shoulder diving in the field during the 2023 Ashes at Lord’s, which spared him three more Tests against Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and co. Had he failed three more times there, Hyderabad may not have been possible. But, having recalled…
On the same day the state of Georgia issued a death warrant for Stacey Ian Humphreys, setting his execution for December 17, Gov. Brian Kemp announced his latest appointment to the Board of Pardons and Parole, the five-member body that would ultimately decide whether Humphreys would live or die. The new member was Kim McCoy,…
Disgraced ex-University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore’s bleary-eyed mugshot has emerged after he was arrested for allegedly barging into his former lover’s home — just two days after she ended their affair. Moore, a 39-year-old married father of three, was taken into custody on Dec. 10 soon after he was dramatically fired after his…