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Maxar completes $6.4B sale to private equity

Maxar Technologies, the satellite imaging and manufacturing company, has completed its $6.4 billion sale to private equity.The company announced on Wednesday that it was no longer listed on the New Yo...

May 2023

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Scientists have mapped a secret hidden corridor in Great Pyramid of Giza

In 2016, scientists using muon imaging picked up signals indicating a hidden corridor behind the famous chevron blocks on the north face of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. The following year, the ...

Mar 2023

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New imaging tool confirms female scribe etched her name in medieval manuscript

Jessica Hodgson, a graduate student at the University of Leicester, was poring over a medieval manuscript in the Bodleian Libraries' collection at the University of Oxford when she spotted a faint etc...

Feb 2023

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Lasers used to guide lightning strikes to a safe target

Lightning rods protect buildings by providing a low-resistance path for charges to flow between the clouds and the ground. But they only work if lightning finds that path first. The actual...

Jan 2023