Terry Eddington, a National Park Service custodian who is about halfway through what may be Death Valley’s hottest summer ever, previously experienced some of the planet’s lowest temperatures during five winters in Antarctica.
Science and Technology
A last-minute technical problem Saturday delayed NASA’s unprecedented flight to the sun.
Regional U.S. election officials attending a hacker conference in Las Vegas Friday said they need more money and training to enhance cybersecurity of their election infrastructure.
NASA is sending a spacecraft straight into the sun’s glittering crown, an atmospheric region so hot and harsh any normal visitor would wither.
Security experts at the Black Hat conference Thursday in Las Vegas sought to alleviate fears about the ease of hacking autonomous cars.
Samsung’s new smartphone illustrates the limits of innovation at time when hardware advances have slowed.
The rise of cryptocurrencies is creating more opportunities for cyber criminals to steal, according to Cisco Systems.
Samsung Electronics plans to spend a whopping $22 billion over the next three years on artificial intelligence and auto components.
NASA has assigned the astronauts who will ride the first commercial capsules into orbit next year and bring human launches back to the U.S.
Apple has become the world’s first publicly traded company to be valued at $1 trillion, the financial fruit of stylish technology that has redefined what we expect from our gadgets.
Facebook said it has uncovered “sophisticated” efforts, possibly linked to Russia, to influence U.S. politics on its platforms.
Skywatchers around much of the world have begun watching a complete lunar eclipse that is the longest of this century.
Cracking down on hate, abuse and online trolls is also hurting Twitter’s standing with investors.
Facebook faced a day of reckoning as its shares plunged Thursday in the company’s worst trading day since going public in 2012. It was among the biggest one-day losses of market value in U.S. stock market history.
A huge lake of salty water appears to be buried deep in Mars, raising the possibility of finding life on the red planet, scientists reported Wednesday.