Allow me to preface the title: Longshot Space wants to build a 6-mile-long (10-km) space cannon to shoot several-ton objects into low Earth orbit (LEO). The company has already built a working proof of concept.

Here I'll provide a comprehensive overview of automotive lidar technology. Lidar is used for autonomous vehicles and robotics because it's a cool technology.

The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ripple across an ecosystem.

And by "they" I mean 23-year-old furries from the Netherlands

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one complicate matters.

I learned how to tag, bag and transport a body to the morgue before I ever took care of a living patient. I had been excited to meet him, Martin /Mr. Martin ...

How far did the horizons of our first ancestors extend? In the furthest past, even the nearest ridge of hills might then have disclosed a sight no human eyes had ever seen, and every river crossed was a ford into the unknown. The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic were eras when all was a great trek, all an act of discovery and endurance. Yet there is one frontier we do not so often associate with the distant past today, one even greater, and more imposing, than the primordial steppes and forests: that of the oceans.

This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.

Millions of women have pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD. But diagnoses and treatments vary considerably.

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Manet’s art is about challenging what we think we know about the world: about what makes a finished picture as well as about what constitutes a politics of class, gender, and race. And doesn’t the …

The survival of our species owes much to our brain, specifically, its ability to observe, analyse, and plan. Planting crops and storing grains for the winter were some of the earliest uses of these abilities. Measuring and calculating are foundational elements of observation, analysis, and planning. Computation, upon which our modern society depends, is but an extension of those ancient measurement and calculation techniques.

W&S is a weekly newsletter about reading, writing, and publishing by author Colin Wright.

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together.

The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

How far did the horizons of our first ancestors extend? In the furthest past, even the nearest ridge of hills might then have disclosed a sight no human eyes had ever seen, and every river crossed was a ford into the unknown. The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic were eras when all was a great trek, all an act of discovery and endurance. Yet there is one frontier we do not so often associate with the distant past today, one even greater, and more imposing, than the primordial steppes and forests: that of the oceans.

How a liver goes from a brain-dead donor to a living recipient.

W&S is a weekly newsletter about reading, writing, and publishing by author Colin Wright.

Apollo Quiboloy — according to his followers — is the appointed son of God. He’s also at the center of a criminal empire, an explosive rift in the government of the Philippines, and a shift in the makeup of global Christianity.

In India, an era of glaring inequality is also a golden age of graft.

“The first to get thrown under the bus is the intelligence community”