Just before midnight Saturday, a Tesla drove swiftly around a curve, veered off the road, struck a tree and burst into flames in The Woodlands, Texas, a suburb north of Houston, police said.
Monday, April 19, 2021
Photos and video of unidentified objects in the sky published on two websites dedicated to reports about UFOs and the paranormal were shot by Navy personnel, the Pentagon said.
LOS ANGELES — NASA’s miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity performed a successful takeoff and landing on Mars early on Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft over the surface of another planet, the U.S. space agency said.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire are studying seedless table grapes with the hope of finding varieties that grow well in the state.
Saturday, April 10, 2021
American culture has been projected overseas in various ways: Elvis, blue jeans, Coca-Cola, MTV, Hollywood films. Now, in a program announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of State, this pantheon will include video games.
The town of Roswell is gearing up to be one of the first in the area to bring back destination festivals since the pandemic with its UFO Festival July 2-4.
Amazon's livestreaming service Twitch announced Wednesday that it will enforce its conduct policy on extreme behavior that happens outside of its platform. That includes deadly violence, membership in a hate group, terrorism, threats of mass violence, nonconsensual sexual activity, exploitat…
Thursday, April 08, 2021
The NASA Perseverance rover reported this week on the weather from Mars's Jezero Crater for the first time, providing data that will augment scientific understanding of the Martian atmosphere and inform future decisions about the rover's mission.
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
BERLIN — White Mountains Community College recently acquired two pieces of equipment to help industrial mechanics students learn better.
Phillipe Christodoulou wanted to check his bitcoin balance last month, so he searched the App Store on his iPhone for "Trezor," the maker of a small hardware device he uses to store his cryptocurrency. Up popped the company's padlock logo set against a bright green background. The app was ra…
Monday, March 29, 2021
With a little help from NASA, a team of University of New Hampshire at Manchester students is preparing to send into space an experiment that started in a Queen City classroom.
Visa Inc said on Monday it will allow the use of the cryptocurrency USD Coin to settle transactions on its payment network, the latest sign of growing acceptance of digital currencies by the mainstream financial industry.
The administration of President Joe Biden said Monday that it has set a goal to vastly expand the nation’s offshore wind energy capacity in the coming decade by opening new areas to development, speeding environmental permitting, and boosting public financing for projects.
Friday, March 26, 2021
LOS ANGELES - Actor William Shatner, best known for forging new frontiers on the "Star Trek" TV series, has tapped new technology that will give current and future generations the chance to query him about his life, family and career.
Thursday, March 25, 2021
The Union Leader Symposium Series: Women in Engineering took place on March 24, 2021. The topic for the event was work/life balance in the engineering field in 2021. Our panelists discussed their own experiences with the dramatic changes in 2021 and how their organizations pivoted to support…
Researcher John Kindervag published a paper about a decade ago that argued administrators of sensitive computer networks shouldn't trust anyone on their networks, regardless of their title.
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Who really runs the Internet? A lot of companies you rarely hear about.
Tesla Inc customers can now buy its electric vehicles with bitcoin, its boss, Elon Musk, said on Wednesday, marking a significant step forward for the cryptocurrency's use in commerce.
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Last year's gargantuan $2.3 trillion appropriations bill did a couple very obvious things: it provided millions of Americans badly needed coronavirus relief aid and it averted an impending government shutdown.
Thursday, March 18, 2021
After 25 hours over eight days, the time had come for Lily Hevesh to topple 15,000 dominoes. With a soft flick of her finger, Hevesh stood back and listened to her favorite sound on repeat: one domino hitting the next.
Alphabet Inc's Google said on Thursday it plans to invest over $7 billion in offices and data centers across the United States as it takes on a surge in internet traffic after pandemic restrictions drove more users and advertisers online.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
WASHINGTON - Mars was once a wet world, with abundant bodies of water on its surface. But this changed dramatically billions of years ago, leaving behind the desolate landscape known today. So what happened to the water? Scientists have a new hypothesis.
Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it is starting to remove the recommendations it gives global users for political and social issue Facebook groups, a move it has billed as turning down tension on the site.
Sunday, March 14, 2021
Talk about nosedives.
Thursday, March 11, 2021
WASHINGTON - Spaceships zipping at the speed of light or faster are a staple of science fiction. Think of the Millennium Falcon in the "Star Wars" movies and the starship Enterprise in "Star Trek." Such travel sounds like fanciful speculation. But is it?
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Mindy Kaling has gone missing from the library.
For Katrina Parrott, being invited to present her idea to Apple at its campus in Cupertino, Calif., felt like a dream. Less than a year earlier, she had been laid off from her job with NASA in Texas. Now, she was discussing partnering with the iPhone maker on an idea she had pioneered: emoji…
Tuesday, March 09, 2021
The team from Salem High School’s Career and Technical Education Center won first place in a virtual cybersecurity competition, hosted by the University of New Hampshire’s cyber club.
VIENNA - A U.N. scientific panel on Tuesday confirmed a previous finding that radiation from the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan was unlikely to raise cancer rates discernibly, and said a jump in thyroid cancer in children was due to "ultrasensitive" screening methods.
Monday, March 08, 2021
Elon Musk is getting into the Texas power market, with previously unrevealed construction of a gigantic battery connected to an ailing electric grid that nearly collapsed last month. The move marks Tesla's first major foray into the epicenter of the U.S. energy economy.
