Superstar engineer John Hart-Smith skewered Boeing’s strategy | Obituary
Smith, who years ago pointed out to Boeing leaders the folly of their business strategy, died last month at 84.
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Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer.
It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A ...
NASA proposes cheaper, quicker way to get Mars rocks and soil to Earth
NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to ...
Passenger has wild ‘raw dogging’ hack to pass time on airplanes — and other travelers love it, too: ‘I do this a lot’
"Glad to know I'm not the only one," one commenter said of the bizarre practice. "I do this a lot! Sometimes it's so bad I ...
How astronomers used gravitational lensing to discover 44 new stars in distant galaxy
The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...