Charlie DeLoach never intended to serve on a jury, let alone one deciding arguably the state’s highest-profile murder case. An educator who grew up in the Bromley Heath public housing development in J ...

For quantum computers to outperform their classical counterparts, they need more quantum bits, or qubits. State-of-the-art quantum computers have around 1,000 qubits. Columbia physicists Sebastian ...

A paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers Saturday, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space while beholding Earth from on high.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michi Benthaus poses before her historic flight into space. - Courtesy Blue Origin Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old German ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin completed a suborbital joyride Saturday with a six-person crew, including the first wheelchair user to reach space and one of SpaceX’s first engineers. The flight took off at ...

Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old German aerospace and mechatronics engineer, made history as the first wheelchair user to travel past the Kármán Line, a common marker for outer space. Her voyage on a ...

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An upcoming Blue Origin flight will mark a first for people with disabilities. The company said its next mission will include Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, an aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the ...

Why it matters: JavaScript was officially unveiled in 1995 and now powers the overwhelming majority of the modern web, as well as countless server and desktop projects. The language is one of the core ...

We've released our list of 100 Notable Books. (You can read it in full here!) Browsing a list of 100 books is exciting, but can be overwhelming. Want to find one to read right away? We can help! Here ...