The largest oyster reef restoration ever is underway off the Texas coast, with material supplied by an unusual suspect: a Missouri quarry hundreds of miles from the nearest saltwater. Mark Dumesnil, an associate director for the Nature Conservancy in Texas, is...
Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, Germany’s top security official, is interested in speaking with NSA leaker, Edward Snowden, about alleged surveillance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone. The possibility that the U.S. has been listening in on...
A new day is dawning at NASA, one in which private companies like the Sierra Nevada Corp. vie for the right to carry to be chosen to shuttle astronauts to the International Space Station and back in the next four or five years. The Dream Chaser space plane was...
In the world of the 1930s, comic strip crime fighter, Dick Tracy, took on all manner of bad guys with his trusty wristwatch, which also happened to be a two-way radio. It seems like the future is now, as modern day electronics companies are racing to make inroads into...
For the nearly 58 million people who receive Social Security benefits, an automatic cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of 1.5 percent will kick in next year. Thanks to almost dormant consumer prices – which Social Security increases are pegged to – next...
