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1 week ago | 
dogonews.com | John Woo
With advanced air filters and strict cleaning routines, the International Space Station (ISS) is one of the cleanest places beyond Earth. Yet astronauts often experience a range of health issues while aboard. A new study suggests that one reason may be that the ISS is too clean! For their research, Rodolfo Benitez and his team at UC San Diego asked astronauts to wipe different parts of the ISS to collect samples. This included the kitchen, bathroom, and eating area.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Taffy Brodesser-Akner |Julia Whelan |Jack D’Isidoro |Kelly Prime |Frannie Carr Toth |John Woo | +1 more
"The force of his will is the thing I remember about him," says Taffy Brodesser-Akner, who wrote a profile of Val Kilmer for The New York Times Magazine in May 2020. "He was sure he was going to come back to his exact former self. "The two met for an interview just as a lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic seemed all but certain to happen. Mr. Kilmer, who was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 and had undergone a tracheotomy, was still performing.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | David Yaffe-Bellany |Tally Abecassis |John Woo |Aaron Esposito |Catherine Anderson
How did a successful, financially sophisticated banker gamble his community’s money away?
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2 months ago | 
dogonews.com | John Woo
An observant quarry worker at Dewars Farm Quarry in England has helped uncover hundreds of dinosaur footprints. The fossils date back to the Middle Jurassic period (around 166 million years ago). They belong to some of the United Kingdom's largest dinosaurs and offer new insights into their movement patterns. Gary Johnson first noticed the "strange bumps" in June 2024 while stripping the clay that covered them. He was trying to expose the quarry floor.
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2 months ago | 
dogonews.com | John Woo
On January 28, 2025, XB-1, an experimental aircraft built by US company Boom Supersonic, became the first privately built jet to fly faster than the speed of sound. To prove this was not a fluke, test pilot Tristan Brandenburg flew around for two more supersonic runs over California’s Mojave Desert before returning to land. He repeated the feat with another test flight on February 10, 2025. Once again, the aircraft broke the sound barrier three times.
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2 months ago | 
dogonews.com | John Woo
On January 28, 2025, XB-1, an experimental aircraft built by US company Boom Supersonic, became the first privately built jet to fly faster than the speed of sound. To prove this was not a fluke, test pilot Tristan Brandenburg flew around for two more supersonic runs over California’s Mojave Desert before returning to land. On February 10, 2025, he repeated the feat with another test flight over the desert. Once again, the aircraft broke the sound barrier three times.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
dogonews.com | John Woo
A Michigan-based designer has built an electric scooter that disguises as a telecom box. Nomoto — short for "No motorcycle here" — is the brainchild of Joey Ruiter. This innovative prototype is designed to outsmart bike thieves. It blends seamlessly into the urban landscape. “I wanted to create a piece that is museum-worthy that’s completely unnoticeable and so familiar, you’re just going to walk past it,” Ruiter said. When parked, Nomoto's handlebars are hidden behind a drop-down cover.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Oliver Whang |Eric Martin |Jack D’Isidoro |Krish Seenivasan |John Woo |Aaron Esposito | +2 more
Ingrid Jackson had never lived in a trailer before, or a small town. She was born in Louisville, Ky., the daughter of a man with schizophrenia who, in 1983, decapitated a 76-year-old woman. Jackson was 1 at the time. In 2010, at 27, she was in a car accident and was prescribed pain pills. Not long after that, she began using heroin. Over the next decade she went through nine rounds of addiction rehab. Each ended in relapse.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
dogonews.com | John Woo
Claudia Steffensen and her husband were hiking in Lombardy, Italy, in 2023 when she stepped on what appeared to be a block of cement. A closer examination revealed curvy lines that looked like footprints. "I put my foot on a rock, which struck me as odd as it seemed more like a slab of cement. I then noticed these strange circular designs with wavy lines," Steffensen told The Guardian. "I took a closer look and realized they were footprints." Steffensen shared an image with a nature photographer.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
dogonews.com | John Woo
A rocket built by students at the University of Southern California (USC) Rocket Propulsion Lab (RPL) has shattered a 20-year-record. Aftershock II, launched from Nevada's Black Rock Desert on October 20, 2024, soared to an altitude of 470,000 feet (143.3 km) above Earth's surface. This shattered the previous amateur rocket altitude record of 380,000 feet (115.8 km), set by the Civilian Space eXploration Team’s GoFast rocket in 2004, by 90,000 feet (27.4 km).
