You can call it a Sputnik moment, when an unexpected Soviet breakthrough in the space race in 1957 spurred the Americans to put a man on the moon. Or perhaps it’s another China shock, a reference to ...

Busà Photography / Getty Images Many people believe that being wealthy means having a nice house, a late-model car, and a summer cottage, but the kind of money possessed by the wealthiest 1% of ...

In the letters, Peter Pan, keeping up with the times, found a fairy friend named Sputnik, the name of the Soviet Union satellite that launched the Space Age in 1957. Sputnik, Peter reported ...

The inky black upper atmosphere was less busy 68 years ago, when a few young scientists stepped out of a trailer near Fairbanks to look into the cold October sky. Gazing upward, they saw the moving ...

In 1957, the Lockheed ‘Super Star’ (as the type became known within the company) joined the Lufthansa fleet, offering the Senator class as the most exclusive mode of travel for the first time. The ...

Gazing upward, they saw the moving dot that started it all, the Russian-launched Sputnik 1. Those Alaskans ... The New York Times’ Oct. 7, 1957 edition included a front-page headline of ...

We first met Dane Trask and his 1957 Chevrolet Nomad in the summer of 2022, when we visited his home south of Tampa to do a story on his 17-year-old daughter, Riley, proprietor of Riley’s Rebuilds.

As part of its 4,500-vehicle Kissimmee 2025 auction in Florida, Mecum will offer a 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing on Saturday. It’s one of 70 produced for the model year, and comes with just ...

Irish boxer John Cooney, 28, has tragically died following his ninth-round stoppage loss in Belfast on Feb. 1. Yahoo Tech Wordle hints today for #1,331: Clues and answer for Sunday, February 9 ...

Mecum does expect the car to sell for between $1.8 million and $2 million, putting it out of reach of us mere mortals. This 300SL Gullwing is one of just 70 examples produced for the 1957 model ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known ...

Somehow we're already two weeks into January, sailing towards the so-called 'Blue Monday' – not that the year has started off miserly in any way, with the fantastic CES 2025 tech show revealing ...