Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine frontier and more like a crowded shipping lane, with fragments of old rockets and defunct satellites threatening the next generation of ...
The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...
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Can Nash bargaining solve space debris economics?

Orbiting at speeds of about 7.5 kilometers a second, even a piece of debris smaller than a centimeter across can severely ...
Speaking to WSJ Editorial Page Editor, Paul Gigot, the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), provides a candid assessment of how lawmakers plan to shape the business ...
After another week of frustrating setbacks, at the end of a frustrating year trying to bring stability to their industry, a growing number of college athletic directors say they are interested in ...
The idea that we’re living inside a simulation, as popularized by “The Matrix” franchise, has piqued the interest of scientists for decades. In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed in a highly ...
The true nature of our universe as been an open debate for millennia, and recently, scientists and philosophers have pondered whether it might be a hyper-realistic simulation perpetuated by some super ...
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed into law late Friday a bill that will prohibit government entities from negotiating contracts with unions representing public employees — including teachers, firefighters ...
The leaders of more than half a dozen federal employee unions last week urged Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins to restore collective bargaining rights for most departmental employees, after ...
While we come from different sides of the federal bargaining table—one a Democrat and former union president, and one a long-time management advocate at that table, as well as a political appointee in ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Wednesday it was ending collective bargaining agreements with most federal unions -- a move that affects roughly 80% of its total workforce. Members of the ...