Mom couldn’t afford assisted living, moved her to tiny house next door
Lori Bufka, 64, cares for her mother with dementia. Assisted living became too expensive, so Bufka moved her into a trailer next to their home.
When Zhang Chenxing, who holds a PhD from MIT, co-founded Mega Engine Technology in Xi’an in early 2024, China’s high-pressure oxygen-rich staged-combustion know-how sat almost entirely inside state propulsion houses — and by May 2026 his startup had logged 1,000 seconds of accumulated test time on a closed-cycle kerolox engine
Roughly two years after it opened its doors, a Xi’an commercial startup called Mega Engine Technology has announced that a single high-pressure oxygen-rich staged-combustion kerolox engine accumulated 1,000 seconds of run time at rated conditions across its test campaign — the kind of endurance number that until now belonged almost exclusively to engines designed inside […]
Construction Workers Dug Beneath a High School—and Stumbled Upon 200+ Ancient Species
A construction project at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles revealed nearly 9-million-year-old sea creature fossils buried under the school.
You’re an ‘Avatar in a VR Game,’ Scientist Claims—Meaning Reality Isn’t What It Seems
Donald Hoffman’s interface theory claims space-time may be more like a VR dashboard than reality itself—and some physics may point the same way.
JWST finds a stellar bar in the early universe that breaks all rules
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a stellar bar in GN20, a massive galaxy seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. The new paper was submitted to the preprint …
On its 40th anniversary, we reassess 1986’s SpaceCamp
Is it a hidden gem, a cult classic, or hopelessly dumb? Senior Space Editor Eric Berger and Senior Technology Editor Lee Hutchinson vote “all of the above.”
The Moon is stealing time from the Earth, and it has been getting away with it for billions of years. Our planet spins so much slower than it once did that a single day has stretched from just 19 hours to the 24 we live by, and the Moon is still creeping away from us right now.
Earth’s spin is slowing, the day is getting longer, and the Moon is drifting outward at about 3.8 centimetres a year, a figure measured by bouncing lasers off the reflectors the Apollo missions left on the surface. Two things in the popular telling are worth correcting, though, because both make a careful process sound more […]
There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way. A major global estimate put the planet’s tree count at about three trillion, while NASA gives the Milky Way’s star count as roughly 100 to 400 billion.
The most cited global estimate puts the number of trees on Earth at about three trillion. NASA gives the Milky Way somewhere between 100 and 400 billion stars. Three trillion is more than seven times the high end of that range, so there are indeed more trees on Earth than stars in our galaxy. Both […]
The bootprints left by the Apollo astronauts will still be sitting on the Moon a million years from now, because there is no wind and no rain to wear them away.
The claim is true, and a million years is plausible, though not guaranteed for every individual print. The Apollo tracks, first pressed into the lunar surface in 1969, will almost certainly still be visible in some form a million years from now. There is no wind on the Moon and no rain, so the forces […]
Meteor explodes over United States, triggering sonic boom
A meteor broke apart over Massachusetts in the US. Several people reported that the buildings they were in shook during the incident.