Abstract: Powered descent guidance is an enabling technology for extraterrestrial soft landing and reusable rocket recovery. Although the focus of guidance research has tilted toward trajectory ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

Charlie Kirk speaks following the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump during an event at Capital One Arena on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Image via Getty Images) A video of a ...

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2018 file photo, the U.S. Medicare Handbook is photographed in Washington. Making more than the maximum income level for Medicaid isn’t necessarily a deal breaker. After a long ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Ms Doreen Muhanuzi Buyungo is a writer and filmmaker born in Kampala but raised in Masindi, then Hoima, then Masindi again. And then Hoima again. Her mother’s job in the bank moved the family around ...

Alex Kingsbury is a contributing writer at The New York Times and a former member of the Globe editorial board. Appointments always start with an earnest apology. “I’m so sorry,” I’ll hear, seconds ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida's python removal program has eliminated over 20 tons of Burmese pythons since 2013. Researchers use surgically implanted radio transmitters in male "scout snakes" ...

Aaron Mann removed 87 Burmese pythons in July, the most by any hunter in the South Florida Water Management District's 2025 incentive program. Mann's total brings the 2025 program's eliminated python ...