A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...

PR is the principle that a party’s share of votes should match its share of legislative seats. Systems built on that principle treat votes for candidates as votes for their parties, too. Thus, it ...

“A magazine, when properly conducted, is the nursery of genius; and by constantly accumulating new matter, becomes a kind of market for wit and utility.” Thomas Paine made this (true) statement in ...

The PGA Tour will make the age-old trip from Mississippi to Japan this week with the Baycurrent Classic at the recently redesigned Yokohama Country Club. Formerly known as the Zozo Championship, this ...

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I used to live in the same city as his parents and sisters. We became very close, getting together several times a week. One of his sisters was my best friend. Related ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A science experiment at Gibbs High School led to a temporary lockdown on Friday. Jeff Bagwell with Rural Metro Fire said students were mixing gaseous chemicals for a science ...

The Center for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs (CTEMPs) had two major successes over the summer: it conducted a first-of-its-kind experiment on acoustic sensors and held a workshop ...

FIRST NEWS. WELL, IT IS AN IMPACT DAY. YOU CAN SEE WHY WE CAUGHT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN FROM OUR EXCLUSIVE SKYCAM NETWORK. AND YOU, THE VIEWER, HELPING TELL THE STORY. ADRIAN ORTIZ SHARED THIS VIDEO ...

The best American and European golfers are ready for the 2025 Ryder Cup, which begins this week at Bethpage Black. Here is our complete 2025 Ryder Cup viewer’s guide for the entire tournament, ...

The ALICE Collaboration is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for transforming lead into gold for a fraction of a second and exposing the strange physics that goes on inside the Large Hadron ...

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — A military experiment known as Falcon Peak 25.2 took place Thursday morning at Eglin Air Force Base. The experiment is part of the U.S. Northern Command, which wants to ...

In addition to revealing characteristics of mysterious particles called neutrinos, the massive DUNE experiment could help astronomers find a supernova right as it begins. At this very moment, ...