In the 1960s, an unexpected gift from the Air Force led Herb Weiss ’40 to develop an antenna that could track a speeding ...

The release of DeepSeek’s AI models has sparked alarm, but it does not represent a turning point in US–China AI competition. On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world’s first ...

The Nasdaq Composite fell 3.1%, with Google’s parent company Alphabet losing $100 billion and Microsoft dropping $7 billion. The development marks a pivotal moment in the race between the US and ...

The Soviet Union's October 1957 launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, stunned the U.S., which reckoned it had a commanding lead in "the Space Race." ...

However, this belief was changed when Sputnik was launched on October 1, 1957. The successful launch of both Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2 raised concerns in the US, underscoring the need for renewed ...

On Oct. 4, 1957, Russia launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite successfully placed into orbit around the Earth. According the the US State Department, “the successful launch came as ...

Oct. 4—66 years ago, on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world into the space race after sending the first satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit. Sputnik 1 weighed around 184 pounds and ...

Policymakers and others often invoke the 1957 Russian launch of sputnik when trying to spark a discussion about education reform. A rhetoric scholar examines how often they succeed.

Future historians, with a better perspective, may well mark Oct. 4, 1957, as one of those times,” observed The Sun in a 1977 20th anniversary Sputnik 1 article.

Earlier this month, President Joe Biden gave the order to shoot down a balloon, termed a “weather balloon” by Chinese officials. Off the South Carolina coast, two F-22 fighter jets from… ...