Experts Marvel At How Cyberthieves Stole $45 Million
With a haul of $45 million, it’s being billed as possibly the biggest cyber-heist in history. But in reality, experts and authorities say, it was thousands of small but highly coordinated thefts.
Solar-Powered Airplane Completes First Leg Of U.S. Flight
The Solar Impulse, an airplane traveling across the United States using only solar power, is in Phoenix today, after reaching Arizona from California Saturday.
Saturn Shows Off A Massive Spinning Vortex: ‘The Rose’
NASA is calling it “The Rose.” By any other name, it’s a mammoth storm on Saturn’s north pole. Its eye spans an estimated 1,250 miles — 20 times the size of an average hurricane’s eye on Earth.
NBA’s Jason Collins Is First Active Player To Come Out As Gay
“I didn’t set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport,” National Basketball Association center Jason Collins writes in a Sports Illustrated essay posted Monday, “but since I am, I’m happy to start the conversation.”
Big Night For Big Men In Round 1 Of NFL Draft
One year after glamour quarterbacks were the big story, NFL teams mostly opted for big, beefy, bruisers during Round One of the 2013 NFL draft Thursday night.
Boston Blast: Man Knocked Over By Explosion, Got Up, Finished Race
In photographs and videos, you can see there is one runner who is closest to the blast. When the device explodes, he’s knocked over by the force.
Shark! Fisherman Gets Quite A Scare, Catches Scene On Video
Isaac Brumaghim was reeling in a tuna Sunday about two miles off Oahu Island when he came as close as anyone wants to get with a tiger shark that weighed 400 to 500 pounds.
U.S. Will Deploy Solid-State Laser Weapon On Ship Headed To Persian Gulf
For the first time ever, the United States is deploying a solid-state laser weapon. The Laser Weapon System (LaWS) successfully destroyed a drone in flight during a test run and will head to the Persian Gulf aboard the USS Ponce as part of what the military is calling an “at-sea demonstration.”
Pew: Majority Of Americans Now Favor Legalizing Marijuana
For the first time in four decades of polling, a majority of Americans support legalizing the use of marijuana.
Video: In The Name Of Science, Head-Bobbing Sea Lion Keeps The Beat
While rhythm can often be hard enough to find among humans, finding it in the animal kingdom has been even more rare.
