Many ideas have come and gone, but Project Daedalus was a uniquely ambitious plan from the 1970s that never quite came to be.

In mythological ancient Greece, Icarus flew above Crete on wings made from wax and feathers, defying the laws of man and nature. To witnesses on the ground, he looked like a god, and he felt like one too. But, in his society, the line...

Cardano is an open-source and decentralized blockchain project created to facilitate peer-to-peer transactions. It has a layered architecture that facilitates smart contracts, enabling a platform that is both adaptive and scalable...

After leaving Dublin at age 22, James Joyce's life became a continuous journey of physical and intellectual exploration, which is reflected in his masterwork "Ulysses," inspired by Homer's Odyssey. The novel, which Joyce spent seven...

The Perseus aircraft is a remote-controlled glider designed by NASA to conduct high altitude studies of the Earth's atmosphere. With its lightweight design and advanced technology, Perseus can fly twice as high as a commercial jetliner...

120 LaSalle Street, pan past Roger Brown's mosaic of the mythic Daedalus and Icarus to view median with foliage

Diving in Egypt

Israeli archaeologists unveiled on Tuesday a 2,000-year-old inscription believed to be the first complete Hebrew spelling of the word Jerusalem as known in its current form - Yerushalayim.