Norwegian investigators have determined that weak altimeter procedures resulted in a Wideroe De Havilland Dash 8-300 crew's ...

Laura Mitchell, from the U.K., told Newsweek that she felt "a bit apprehensive that they might be territorial." ...

For Mr. Santos, math can also inspire ideas about structures that have already been built — a new way to see and appreciate the world. Inspired by this idea, The New York Times created a virtual tour ...

Advanced space travel relies on a fundamental understanding of the restricted three-body problem (RTBP), in which one of the ...

Archer on Monday announced that its Midnight aircraft climbed to 7,000 feet during a recent test flight, marking a new ...

Abstract: Methods for measuring the coordinates of objects on a plane are described. A system of nonlinear measurement equations for the rangefinder method is obtained. Expressions for the standard ...

A new moon is when the moon shares the same celestial longitude as the sun; the two bodies are said to be in conjunction.

Abstract: In this article, a random triangle model (RTM) is proposed for tracking an extended object (EO) (e.g., an aircraft or ship) that can be modeled by one or more triangles. In the RTM, a ...

SEATTLE — Geocaching celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. The global game of hide and seek started in May 2000, when the U.S. government flipped a switch that made GPS signals far more accurate ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

The chance of getting struck by lightning once in a lifetime is about 1 in 1.2 million. The odds that lightning reaches the ground in the first place are even higher — one in four. It’s the lightning ...

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