Forty years later, another plastic canary has come home to roost. In August, UAF scientist Ben Jones was hiking near Drew Point on the northern coast of Alaska. He noticed pilot Jim Webster walking ...

Engineers created a laser-cut Mylar disc that drops with surprising precision, promising safer, cheaper parachute system for ...

It should be no surprise that the plastic disc business is languishing. In a piece in the Guardian, Adam Sherwin documents the DVD industry crisis. The reasons for the decline range from the ...

BRIDGEPORT -- There's a story told in these parts that goes something like this: The Frisbie Pie Co. on Kossuth Street sold its wares baked in steel tins. Students at Yale University used these pie ...

The first thing I did when I found out I had gotten a summer internship at The Virginian-Pilot was to Google “Hampton Roads Ultimate Frisbee.” I didn’t find much. A summer league in Newport News that ...