Despite its retirement, the Kepler Telescope discovers a distant second ‘Jupiter.’
Kepler was launched in 2009 to find planets the size of Earth circling distant stars. In 2016, scientists discovered a planet 17,000 light-years away. The discovery was made using data…
A DC court dismissed Amazon’s antitrust lawsuit.
An antitrust complaint against Amazon was dismissed by a judge on Friday. The suit sought to limit the e-tailer's ability to punish third-party merchants for charging lower rates. District of…
Elon Musk has revised his timeline for the first human landing on Mars.
Elon Musk now views 2029 as the earliest date for humans to set foot on Mars. It will be 60 years since the first lunar landing, in 1969. SpaceX has…
Since 2000, the size and frequency of fires in the United States have quadrupled.
Fires have grown four times bigger and three times more common in the contiguous United States since 2000. Extreme, unexpected changes in climate are to blame for creating environmental circumstances…
Rosa Bonheur, a 200-year-old French artist, is honored with a Google Doodle.
Rosa Bonheur was born on March 16, 1822, in Bordeaux, France. She was one of the most prominent female artists of the 19th century. Her realistic paintings of horses, lions,…
With an action-packed 20th anniversary video, SpaceX relives its greatest hits.
SpaceX was founded on March 14, 2002. Company celebrates its 20th anniversary with retrospective video. Highlights include Dragon capsule in orbit, satellite deployments, and Starship prototype testing. Elon Musk's own…
Apple Park HQ was evacuated briefly due to a hazmat scare, but nothing dangerous was discovered.
The package turned out to be non-harmful, and employees were allowed to return to work. NBC Bay Area reports that only a fraction of Apple Park was evacuated before the…
In the Metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg Discusses Building Avatars and Buying Sweatshirts
Zuckerberg spoke with Daymond John, the founder, and CEO of Fubu and one of the sharks on ABC's Shark Tank. Meta is a digital world (or worlds) built on the…
A Sabre-Toothed Predator Discovered Recently Is Millions of Years Older Than Tigers
A new species of saber-tooth predator has been discovered. Researchers studied a jawbone fossil from the Eocene epoch. Machaeroidines are an early example of a hypercarnivore, an animal that eats…
Ahead of the return to work, Meta downgrades opulent employee benefits.
The company postponed its return to the office due to a spike in infections. Some on-campus facilities will be phased out, and some services will be funded by a $3,000…