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Turning on airplane mode was never really about keeping the plane in the air, a phone has almost no chance of downing an aircraft, and the rule exists largely because a cabin full of phones frantically pinging towers annoys ground networks and, at worst, buzzes in the pilots' headsets
2+ hour, 45+ min ago (27+ words) The real reason your phone must go into airplane mode has almost nothing to do with crashing—and everything to do with ground networks and pilot annoyance....
Did a Sun-like star quietly swallow one of its own planets, leaving behind a spike of lithium it should have lost long ago?
3+ week, 1+ day ago (406+ words) An aging star has far more lithium than it should. Astronomers say the likeliest reason is that TOI-5882 swallowed one of its own planets, though they call it a candidate, not a verdict. Published July 26, 2026 TOI-5882 is close to the…...
Light from the Sun takes about eight minutes to reach Earth, but the energy inside a single photon can spend tens of thousands of years bouncing through the Sun's dense core before it ever escapes the surface to begin that eight-minute trip
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (185+ words) Sunlight takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth from the solar surface. But the energy inside each photon spent tens of thousands of years pinballing through the Sun's core before it ever got out — a random walk through matter thirteen…...
On July 8, 2026, Waymo announced fully driverless taxis for four more American cities, its fleet now giving about half a million rides a week and aiming for a million a week before the year is out
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (101+ words) Let's start with the number that frames everything else. Earlier in 2026, Waymo was giving about 500,000 paid rides a week across its US markets. Two years...
Solar storms don't harm people directly — they induce electric currents in long metal, meaning the power lines, pipelines and undersea internet cables we've strung across the planet are exactly what they attack
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (974+ words) The 1989 Quebec blackout took down a grid serving six million people in 92 seconds — not because the solar storm hurt anyone, but because the long metal of the transmission lines was exactly what it could attack....
Musk's original 2001 Mars plan was almost childishly simple: land a small greenhouse on the red planet to reignite public excitement for space, the seed idea that grew into SpaceX
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (170+ words) Before SpaceX existed, Elon Musk spent late 2001 trying to buy refurbished Soviet missiles in Moscow to land a minibar-sized greenhouse on Mars. The plan, called Mars Oasis, was designed not to do science but to broadcast a single image — a…...
Solar storms don't shock people directly — they induce electric currents in long metal, meaning power lines, pipelines and undersea internet cables become the very antennas that channel the damage into modern life
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (157+ words) Solar storms do not electrocute people. They induce slow electric currents in long conductors — power lines, pipelines and undersea internet cables — which then channel the damage into substations and shore stations. The 1989 Quebec blackout took down a continent's grid in…...
The Parker Solar Probe is still flying through the Sun's corona at 430,000 miles per hour, fast enough to cross the continental United States in about 20 seconds, because a 4.5-inch carbon-foam shield keeps the spacecraft in the shade
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (1412+ words) The Parker Solar Probe is still the fastest object ever built by human hands, flying through the Sun's outer atmosphere at roughly 430,000 miles per hour. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Editorial process Published May 21, 2026 Those numbers sound like exaggeration. They…...
Air Force Revives Orbital Solar Beaming Plan as Launch Economics Finally Catch Up
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (424+ words) ...