For years, Saturn made no sense. Measure its rotation rate using radio signals from its aurora and you get one number. Use the planet’s gravity field and you get another. Worse still, the ...

In the endless pursuit of faster, more efficient travel, engineers have been cooking up all kinds of new forms of propulsion. One of the most interesting to emerge in the last decade is the electric ...

There is something highly rewarding about building an engine, in that many of them are logic machines: When assembled properly, they work. While taking a break in the shop for a cup of coffee over the ...

Einstein’s statement highlights a simple yet profound truth: problems are not just external challenges but reflections of how we think. According to him, if individuals continue to approach issues ...

In the fall of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, sent secret memos to three fellow-members of the organization’s board of directors. For weeks, they’d been having furtive discussions ...

A Delta Air Lines flight bound for Atlanta turned back to Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport after the crew detected an engine problem shortly after departure. The incident, involving Flight ...