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The little-known Postal Plan, which dates back to the Clinton era, charges mail carriers with delivering critical supplies--like vaccines--as a last resort.

SpaceX said March 24 that one of the final parachute tests for its Crew Dragon spacecraft went awry, a problem it blamed on the test setup and not a flaw with the parachutes themselves. SpaceNews.com

Amid natural disasters and a spreading pandemic, three Puerto Rican students found hope in a project to restore an abandoned observatory on their university's campus.

Caring for a coronavirus patient in your own home means adapting to a fast-changing situation. Setting up a sick room, isolating the virus, and ensuring the comfort of your loved one is of utmost importance. Visit BGR's ...

ReversingLabs did a forensic analysis of attacks from the remote access trojan to understand the malware control structure.

Bandsintown wants to help musicians pull in money during the COVID-19 pandemic in addition to promoting their shows. The discovery service is giving artists free, "fast-tracked" access to Twitch's monetization systems to...

Social distancing amid the coronavirus outbreak means you can no longer meet up with your friends for drinks, visit your family for dinner, or really socialize in person in any meaningful way. In response, people have mo...

Even though it currently has temperatures approaching 800 degrees Fahrenheit during the day and nearly -300 degrees at night, a new study suggests there is a small chance that the planet Mercury could have supported life...

NASA’s Orion spacecraft has held up to huge extremes of temperature and more, acing its testing at one of the US space agency’s most impressive facilities, as the capsule prepares to head to the Moon. The test proces...

NASA is currently working on components for its future Artemis lunar lander that we use what the space agency calls next-generation thrusters. Those thrusters are small rocket engines that are used to make alterations in...

The covid-19 pandemic has changed the world, grinding to a halt increasingly large geographic areas and portions of the economy in an effort to slow the virus' spread.

Thin metallic tethers for Coulomb drag devices that tow satellites and spacecraft can now be produced more easily than before. Scientists of the Finnish Meteorological Institute have developed a method to produce multi-w...

The world recently lost another luminary, NASA astronaut Al Worden, who was part of the Apollo program and piloted the Endeavor around the Moon The post Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden has Passed Away appeared first on Uni...

As a responsible adult in the midst of the pandemic, you've been doing your part and socially distancing like the experts recommend. But what about, you know, everyone else? A company you've likely never heard of claims ...

Very little is known about how to properly reuse medical masks to fight infectious diseases, but some best practices are starting to emerge.

Meanwhile, Facebook is taking steps to ensure product stability and reduce network congestion, such as temporarily reducing bit rates for videos in certain regions.

On account of the coronavirus spreading across the globe, Ndemic Creations will update its popular Plague Inc. game with a brand new mode. The new mode lets players stop a deadly virus from spreading. In the standard mod...

Social media giant Facebook, which owns Instagram, has been trying to get users to read information from trustworthy sources.

As efforts to flatten the spread of COVID-19 pushes employees from their offices, remote work is undergoing a surge in popularity. Well-known remote-work friendly companies like Zoom have seen a rise in usage, while Slac...

Company's smallest speaker yet will have Amazon Alexa and Airplay 2 built-in

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Apple over the weekend announced plans to donate millions of N95 masks to hospitals in the United States and Europe, and as it turns out, Apple had huge stores of masks on hand. According to U.S. Vice President Mike Penc...