A concept first floated in the 1985 movie Back to the Future is now a reality. In the movie, Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, wore athletic shoes that laced automatically, and this week, shoe manufacturer Nike announced it had made just such a shoe. It’s called HyperAdapt 1.0, and according to Nike, when […]
During a test dive last week, the Hawai’i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) recovered the bronze bell from the I-400 – a World War II-era Imperial Japanese Navy mega-submarine, lost since 1946 when it was intentionally sunk by U.S. forces after its capture. Longer than a football field at 400 feet, the I-400 was known as […]
Officials say U.S. personnel who were involved in the devastating, half-hour aerial attack on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan have been or will be punished. Colonel Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for U.S.-Central Command said “those individuals most closely associated with the incident have been suspended from their duties and were referred for administrative […]
A Donald Trump presidency is the sixth biggest threat facing the world, tied with the prospect of terrorism destabilizing the global economy, according to an assessment by British research group EIU. Its latest ranking of global risks has a sharp economic slowdown in China at the top. That is followed by Russia’s actions in Syria […]