On America’s 250th birthday—otherwise known as the semiquincentennial—my good friend Art Milnes and I embarked on a contest: Who could name the most good things about America? Conducted over email, ...

All right. Good morning. Welcome to our -- the second day of our 54th Annual TMT Conference. Really excited to be joined by Steve Sanghi and Eric Bjornholt from Microchip. Gentlemen, thank you so much ...

It’s July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are about to land on the moon. They will be the first humans to set foot on Earth’s only natural satellite. Suddenly, the onboard computer flashes: ...

Luke Jerram's Moon installation, here on show at London Museum Docklands, but it's been exhibited at various locations. Image: Matt Brown London's lunar legacy explored. Humans are returning to the ...

The takeaway: The code that guided Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface has been released in digital form for public access. Nearly six decades after the Apollo 11 mission, the original ...

When the Artemis II's four-person crew left Earth’s orbit, they were protected by a computing system designed to move beyond simple redundancy (a la the Apollo missions) to a fail-silent architecture ...

Alex Brewer watched the Artemis II astronauts launch at the Kennedy Space Center on April 1. The launch early in the evening in Cape Canaveral, Fla., represented the culmination of several years of ...

The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo era. Apollo astronauts navigated to the lunar surface using a computer with ...

The crew lifted off around 6:35 p.m. ET from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On the 10-day mission, they could travel farther from Earth than any humans have gone before. NASA plans to continue ...

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Margaret Hamilton supervised a division at MIT called the Software Engineering Division, which designed flight software used in NASA’s Apollo missions. As NASA describes, “Margaret’s work in flight ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...