J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79

J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human genome, died on Wednesday in San Diego. He was 79 ...

Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet

Researchers have finally cracked Fast16, mysterious code capable of silently tampering with calculation and simulation ...

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code

Want a blast from the past? Microsoft just open-sourced its very first operating system, offering a rare insight into the ...

‘Oh My God’: Vinny Mauri Ran His First Marathon—and Became the 4th-Fastest American Marathoner Ever!

How a 25-year-old amateur without a coach or shoe deal shocked the world with a 2:05:54 finish at the Glass City Marathon in ...

Microsoft Open Sources Some of the Earliest MS-DOS Code

Microsoft today announced the release of the source code for he 86-DOS 1.00 kernel, which is among the earliest code for what ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

SR-1 Freedom: NASA plans to launch its first nuclear-powered Mars spacecraft in 2028

Following a December 2025 executive order prioritizing “American space superiority,” NASA is advancing nuclear ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Making a Documentary About What Was Behind Trump and Bukele’s CECOT Deal

Filmmakers Juan Ravell and Jeff Arak, in partnership with the Salvadoran news outlet El Faro, unpacked what was behind a deal ...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Twenty years of discovery science at the Spallation Neutron Source

As SNS celebrates two decades of discovery, its story is far from complete. Building on the foundation of reliability, power ...
The Journal Times

A rebirth for First Choice Pre-Apprenticeship program

RACINE — After falling victim to a state funding cut that eventually led to the dissolution of the nonprofit that once oversaw it, the First Choice Pre-Apprenticeship program is back up and running ...