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 […]
Despite opposition from Republicans in Congress who have vowed to block any nomination made by President Obama for the vacant seat on the Supreme Court following the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died unexpectedly wearing a hunting trip in Texas last month, Obama did just that, and nominated Merrick Garland, the Chief Justice of the […]