State police said Friday that they are checking the security of the agency’s computer system after an attack by hackers and they are investigating to determine the extent of the infiltration.
Jun
23
The body temperature of enormous Jurassic-era dinosaurs such as Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus were similar to those of most birds — and close to mammals like us.
Jun
23
The Harvard University classmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are ending the legal battle made famous by the Hollywood movie “The Social Network.”
Jun
22
The world’s biggest plane manufacturers converge on Paris this week for the 49th annual Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport — where they showed off the newest, fastest and biggest planes from around the world.
Jun
22
Lasers that can take down an aircraft or zap a boat in roiling seas are certainly the weapons of the future. But smaller lasers that disrupt rather than destroy could be an even simpler defense system.
Jun
21
Commander Mark Kelly, the dashing astronaut who piloted the final mission for space shuttle Endeavour and husband of recovering congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, announced his retirement from the Navy and NASA over Twitter Tuesday morning.
Jun
20
The Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday voted to eliminate funding to two of the Navy’s still-in-development guns: the free electron laser, essentially a super-powered death ray, and the railgun, which shoots bullets powered not by explosions but by energy.
Jun
20
Internet minders voted Monday to allow virtually unlimited new domain names based on themes as varied as company brands, entertainment and political causes, in the system’s biggest shake-up since it started 26 years ago.
Jun
19
A business jet flew from New Jersey to Paris powered with a blend of “green” jet fuel and petroleum-based fuel, successfully completing the first biofuel transatlantic flight, Honeywell International Inc. said Saturday.
Jun
18
World’s first wiffle ball or ancient Roman chia pet – we asked you to explain what distinguished archeologists could not. What in the world is a “Roman dodecahedron?”