Taking off with a tailwind does the opposite. The aircraft has to reach a higher ground speed to reach liftoff speed, and will have poorer performance. Depending on the length of the runway, you can ...

We look back on Jesse Jackson's 1991 Saturday Night Live appearance reading Green Eggs and Ham in honor of Dr. Seuss. Jackson died on Tuesday at age 84.

Predators are exploiting smart glasses like Ray-Ban Meta to covertly record women without their consent. Here's how to ...

In terms of physical controls, Google is mandating a power switch/button, touchpad (2), and camera button (3) on all Android XR glasses. Models with screens will also have a display button (1) that ...

The icy solar system comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) is set to make its closest pass of Earth tomorrow (Feb. 17), an event known to astronomers as perigee. But your ability to see the ancient wanderer ...

So, you read the headlines about becoming your own barista and clicked "buy now" on a new espresso machine. Congratulations!

Anton Paar’s Abbemat Pharma refractometers are the ideal solution for laboratories in the pharmaceutical industry, delivering precise refractive index (RI) measurements while ensuring full ...

Abstract: This article reports on the results of an experimental study aimed at using fiber Bragg gratings inscribed following the point-by-point method with femtosecond laser radiation (FS-FBGs) as ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Did you resolve to read more books this year and need a little help getting that going? Host Scott Tong gets some tips from “The Stacks” podcast creator and host Traci Thomas. If you’re new to ...

If you’re new to audiobooks, start with a celebrity memoir or a memoir read by the author. If the pace is too slow, speed up the audiobook: Scott listens at 1.3, Traci at 1.5, but will go up to 2.0 if ...