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Aircraft

NASA’s quiet-supersonic X-59 reached the speed and altitude its mission demands

NASA’s X-59 research aircraft has flown at Mach 1.4 and 55,000 feet, the combination planned for its future community-overflight mission. Reaching those conditions shows that the unusual airplane can enter its intended operating point. It does not yet prove that the sound reaching the ground will match the program’s quiet-thump goal. The milestone followed the […]

By Kade Winslow

Space Systems

NASA loaded 290 gallons of toxic fuel into its next giant telescope

By Cassian Holt

Commercial Aircraft

A smoke-filled cockpit pushed investigators to demand more realistic pilot training

By Cassian Holt

A cargo jet crashed after an engine and pylon separated during takeoff

By Cassian Holt

A LaGuardia runway collision put a passenger jet into a fire truck

By Cassian Holt

A passenger jet clipped a New Jersey Turnpike light pole on final approach

By Cassian Holt

A modern distress beacon can tell you rescuers received your call

By Cassian Holt

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Animals

A charging moose calls for a solid barrier, not a stare-down

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

Yellowstone’s most injured visitors often got within 25 yards of a bison

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

If a cougar attacks, park officials say your last option is to fight back

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

Running from a grizzly can trigger the chase you are trying to escape

By BeckhamLangford

Space Systems

NASA loaded 290 gallons of toxic fuel into its next giant telescope

By Cassian Holt

Commercial Aircraft

A smoke-filled cockpit pushed investigators to demand more realistic pilot training

By Cassian Holt

Commercial Aircraft

A cargo jet crashed after an engine and pylon separated during takeoff

By Cassian Holt

Military

The Pentagon’s newest UFO file drop includes an infrared ‘six-pointed star’ over the Pacific

By Rowan Calder

Aviation

11 declassified UFO encounters hidden in the Pentagon’s files

By Kade Winslow

Naval

U.S. and Japanese navies completed a two-week mine-warfare exercise off northern Japan

By Kade Winslow

AI

OpenAI’s new ad system will target you inside ChatGPT using your own conversations

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Europe’s new AI rules require labels on realistic synthetic content

By Dorian Maddox

AI

People rate the same poem lower when they think AI wrote it

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Apple rebuilt Siri AI around an architecture designed to protect private data

By Dorian Maddox

Aircraft

NASA’s quiet-supersonic X-59 reached the speed and altitude its mission demands

By Kade Winslow

Cars

An unbelted passenger still dies on U.S. roads about every 54 minutes

By Kade Winslow

Cars

Speeding still factors into nearly one-third of all U.S. traffic deaths

By Kade Winslow

Cars

Tesla’s Model Y became the first vehicle to pass a new federal assistance test

By Kade Winslow

Cars

5 passenger machines whose safety became part of their identity

By Kade Winslow

Cars

5 machines built for jobs that punish ordinary vehicles

By Kade Winslow

Cars

5 cars that chased efficiency or speed beyond ordinary commuters

By Kade Winslow

Cars

Federal regulators say driverless cars blocking first responders create a public danger

By Kade Winslow

Cars

5 vehicles whose reputations outlived the eras that created them

By Kade Winslow

Cars

5 vehicles built to keep moving after the pavement ends

By Kade Winslow

Aircraft

5 aviation investigations where danger arrived from an unexpected direction

By Cassian Holt

Cars

5 car safety systems that matter most when a crash starts

By Kade Winslow

Cars

5 aircraft safety features investigators depend on after everything goes wrong

By Kade Winslow

Aircraft

Investigators found a deadly Alaska commuter flight was overweight in icing conditions

By Cassian Holt

SUV’s

Kia told 462,000 Telluride owners to park outside over a fire risk

By Kade Winslow

Cars

Lexus topped vehicle dependability for a fourth straight year

By Kade Winslow

Extreme Weather

Rain after a wildfire can turn a burned slope into a wall of debris

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Wildfire smoke can threaten towns hundreds of miles from the flames

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A wind-driven fire jumped the Spokane River and sent thousands fleeing

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Lightning storms flash over Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo about 160 nights each year

By Everett Sloane