November 1, 2014

One of the two pieces of the Spaceship 2 spacecraft tail on the ground in the Mojave desert, minutes after the spacecraft disintegrated during a test flight. Photo: Mujabi's army and emergency response team

Updates from the crash site of the spaceship-2 tourist spacecraft

scientific idea. Illustration: shutterstock

The spirit of things - did they say this before? It doesn't matter / Amir Teicher

Why are scientific discoveries named after scientists, and does that mean they didn't actually discover them?