It wasn’t the average marsquake that the Insight Mars lander heard rip-roaring through the red planet’s ground last Christmas Eve. NASA‘s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter apparently found the source of the rumble a couple of months later from its vantage point in space: a spectacular meteor strike over 2,000 miles away […]
Day: October 29, 2022
Twitter isn’t free: The 10 best tweets of the week
Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter. The billionaire’s bid to purchase the social platform actually, finally, really went through after a long, dramatic saga. So, uh, what now? Honestly who knows, but Musk has promised to potentially fire a bunch of people and to basically do customer support for a right-wing […]
Elon Musk’s Twitter is already less safe. These tools will help you protect yourself.
He didn’t live to see NASA’s futuristic mission, but his ashes will join it in space
When a commercial rocket blew up seconds after lifting off the Virginia coast in 2014, no one got hurt, and NASA replaced the necessary supplies bound for the space station. Few people realized then, though, the cascading fallout of that explosion. The future of human-led Mars exploration hung in the […]
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Director Henry Selick talks ‘Wendell and Wild’ and the ‘charm’ of stop-motion animation
Wendell and Wild drops us into a handcrafted world of demonic fun fairs, austere religious academies, and snowy graveyards where the dead wait for resurrection. Bringing it all to life is director Henry Selick, whose films like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline have cemented him as a legend in […]