In 1843 someone published a step-by-step method for a machine to carry out a calculation — now widely seen as the first algorithm ever written for a machine.
Twenty percent. That is the share of workers around the world who feel truly involved and enthusiastic about their jobs, according to Gallup's State of the Global Workplace: 2026 Report.
Vantor, the American Earth-observation company formerly known as Maxar, is now rebuilding chosen stretches of the planet as three-dimensional models and…
Astronauts returning from long-duration missions almost universally report burning pain in the soles of the feet and deep lower-back ache within days of landing. The cause is a spine that grew by centimetres in orbit meeting Earth's gravity all at once.
Buzz Aldrin's 1973 memoir Return to Earth broke a quiet rule inside NASA by naming the depression that followed his Moon mission — and the pattern of post-mission identity collapse he described now shows up across almost every Apollo lunar module pilot.
For most of the last century, the fear was too many people. That fear has now flipped.
The vestibular system runs silently every second of your life — until orbit removes the gravity its calcium-carbonate crystals were built to measure, and astronauts have to learn how to know which way is down all over again.
Six months on the International Space Station quietly rewires how astronauts sense the world — turning down inner-ear signals gravity has rendered useless, and handing orientation almost entirely to the eyes. Then they come home.
Early Tuesday morning, a softball-sized satellite built by Miami's City Labs reached low Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, becoming the first commercially…
In June 2012, University of Texas researcher Todd Humphreys took a dare from the Department of Homeland Security and used a homemade device to spoof a hovering drone out of the sky at White Sands Missile Range — showing that a fake GPS signal, built from off-the-shelf parts, could quietly steal control of civilian navigation.
Scott Kelly returned to Earth on 1 March 2016 after 340 days aboard the ISS, and the part he keeps describing in interviews is not the launch or the year in orbit but the weeks afterward — when his balance, his skin, and a strange watching-from-behind-the-eyes detachment took far longer to resolve than anyone expected.
In January 2025, a Swiss A220 aborted its landing at Vilnius at 850 feet after GPS spoofing fed its instruments false data. The aircraft was mechanically perfect — and had to divert to Warsaw.
In September 2017, twenty ships near Novorossiysk watched their GPS receivers calmly place them at an airport 25 miles inland. No warning lights, no dropped signals — just a coherent lie broadcast on the correct frequency. Spoofing is the attack that hides itself, and modern aviation is only beginning to grapple with what it means when the instrument no longer knows it is being deceived.
In June 2012, University of Texas professor Todd Humphreys and his students used a homemade GPS spoofer costing a few thousand dollars to secretly steer an $80 million superyacht off course in the Mediterranean — while every instrument on the bridge insisted the ship was on track.
A softball-sized satellite from a small Miami company has quietly rewritten the rules of who gets to fly nuclear power in space.
On October 22, 1975, the Soviet Venera 9 probe survived 53 minutes on the Venusian surface before 465°C heat and 92-bar pressure destroyed it — but in that hour it transmitted the first photograph ever taken from the ground of another planet, revealing sharp-edged rocks that overturned every prediction about Venus's surface.
