One passenger, interviewed on WNBC television, said he saw the left engine blew out, and current reports say both engines went out. The pilot attempted to return the plane to LaGuardia, but the birds damaged the engines too severely. As the plane descended into the icy river, the pilot then guided it into a hard landing on the water. The passengers rapidly evacuated in a fashion described by the interviewed passenger as “kind of orderly....

In one study, researchers showed participants a clip of the television show “24”, split them into two groups, and immediately quizzed one group about the clip while the other played games. Both groups then listened to an audio “recap” of the show that was intentionally false. Common sense would suggest that the witnesses questioned immediately should be better able to remember the real plot than the ones who played games, but after both groups were quizzed on the original story line, the people that had been questioned right away actually did worse in their final quiz than the group that played around—remembering less of the true facts and more of the false....

Here are the most educational, fanciful, and kooky coloring books for kids. With more than 100 illustrations, this jumbo coloring book introduces basic shapes, letters, numbers, and animals to kids ages 1-5. Every giant 8.5-by-11-inch page is filled with cute, bold images, and activities that build fine motor and recognition skills, fundamental learning concepts, and inspire hours of enjoyment. The little bakers and sweet connoisseurs in your life will eat the smorgasbord of cupcakes, ice cream, cookies, popsicles, and donuts in this book right up....

Facebook didn’t just choose these new emotions randomly, of course. As Facebook’s chief product officer Chris Cox explains in a post introducing the new feature: Cox also posted a video showing off the new feature, which you can see embedded at the bottom of this post. The fact that Facebook’s new “Reactions,” don’t include an overt “Dislike” button may be disappointing to those who clamored for that specific option, but the move does show an acknowledgment that the monolithic “Like” button is profoundly limiting when it comes to the actual emotions people want to share....

Since 2011, Facebook’s userbase has doubled to 1.6 billion monthly active users (and over 1 billion daily). Facebook today also released a tool that lets you see how connected you are, on average, to all 1.6 billion other users of Facebook. Remember the “Six Degrees of Bacon” meme, which posits everyone on Earth is connected by six or fewer people to Kevin Bacon (my “Bacon Number” is 3)? The average Facebook user has even closer connections to everyone else on the network: only 3....

Much like its increasing focus on news and current events (in the form of its “Notify” app and “Signal” tool for journalists), Facebook’s leaders have decided to make it easier to engage in sports conversation on the site, as well as find and track sports updates. Sports Stadium will bring live stats, scores, and play-by-plays, as well as posts from friends and journalists into one place. That said, it’s unclear exactly how all this curation will be implemented....

. In an interview with German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Ferrari President Luca Cordero di Montezemolo said the company is planning a Ferrari model powered by a Formula One-style hybrid powertrain. Di Montezemolo said Ferrari aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 40 percent between now and 2012. Much of that reduction will come from a push to use lightweight materials like aluminum and carbon fiber composites, and considering a move from V12s and V8s to turbocharged V6 engines....

Supercars aren’t exempt from the transition either, and Ferrari is the latest luxury performance automaker to look towards electrification to entice its tech-hungry customers. Its newest offering is the sharply designed 2022 Ferrari 296 GTB: a rear mid-engine hybrid supercar that offers drivers a glorious 830-horsepower engine. It should come at no surprise that Ferrari is introducing another electrified car into its lineup. Automakers across the industry have been moving to more sustainable propulsion methods, and that includes offering a hybrid powertrain for high-horsepower vehicles like the GTB....

The new way of fighting is closer in line with many action games that have recently hit the Playstation 4 and Xbox One. Traditionally, Final Fantasy games have relied on a turn-based format for battling enemies as well as Active Time Battle — a system that combines turn-by-turn fighting with actions that require you to react instantly in the moment. Square Enix’s new combat footage shows controls appear on screen, allowing gamers to sneak up on enemies....

The retrofitted whirlybird was controlled by a Sikorsky-made autonomy system. As part of that system, the helicopter has a switch on board that allows the aviators to indicate whether two pilots, one pilot, or zero pilots will be operating the chopper. This was the first time that a Black Hawk was sent into the air with the no-pilots option, so that the computer system was handling all the controls. While these were just test flights, they hint at a future in which the Army could potentially send an autonomous helicopter on a dangerous rescue mission—and have no one on board it at all....

In this first-of-its-kind study, the biotech firm Oxitec placed genetically modified mosquito eggs on private properties in the Florida island chain. These mosquitoes are engineered to be male, non-biting, and only capable of producing male offspring. The eggs were surrounded by capture sites designed to snag adult mosquitoes and traps to collect the eggs of future mosquito generations. Researchers wanted to see whether the Oxitec mosquitoes would successfully mate with local insects—if they did, and only produced male non-biting offspring, that would reduce the number of wild mosquitoes....

“iPhone with a keyboard” will certainly be flung around, and indeed much of the layout is nearly identical to that “other phone.” (N.B. There seems to be a kabosh on T-MObile employees referring to the iPhone by name: At one point in the press conference someone asked a question involving the iPhone and in his response, CTO Cole Brodeman would call it only “that phone previously mentioned.”) The menu is a neat series of icons; finger flicks move you up and down pages and through options....

Here are some things Disco can’t do: Water plantsDetect soil moistureHold nine cups of waterPhotosynthesizeCome in slate gray, porcelain, or brick Instead, Disco carries a 14-megapixel camera in its nose, and flies for up to 45 minutes. Like this: At 1.5 pounds, the drone has to be registered with the FAA, but is otherwise light and nimble. It is launched by being tossed in the air, where autopilot takes over and should guide it to stable flight....

With world famous engineers like Red Bull’s Adrian Newey, whose cars have won an astounding ten Constructors’ Championships (the ultimate prize in Formula One) with three different teams — rumor has it that Newey turned down a $20 million per year job offer from Ferrari to stay with Red Bull — engineers are the true all-stars in Formula One. F1 teams sport some of the world’s greatest specialists in aerodynamics, batteries, engine packaging, fuel, oil, rubber compounds, and much more....

Before physicists began to grok the laws of thermodynamics in the mid-1800s, inventors, lured by the idea of perpetual motion, sought to exploit the movement of heat. Alongside earnest innovators, hucksters filled the scientific void. Such was the case of Charles Redheffer, a self-proclaimed inventor who posted up in Philadelphia and New York City in 1812 to sell tickets to peep his infinitely moving machine, later revealed to be operated by an old man turning a crank in a hidden loft....

The Google Pixel 6a, released at the end of July, is the first Pixel with Google Tensor, the first chip designed by Google for the Pixel line. This Android 5G phone features an all-day battery for Instagram-ing between classes and for hours of library scrolling when you should be studying—though it’s as good for researching a topic as it is journalling or procrastinating. The 12-megapixel camera includes presets like Motion and Portrait Modes that allow you to take a perfect picture regardless of circumstances....

In the absence of evidence of life, a not-so-new idea is gaining ground: If we can’t find life on Mars, maybe we could bring life to Mars. Not only that, but we might be able to change the nature of the red planet itself, and turn a dry and lifeless world into a mirror of our own blue and green marble. It sounds like science fiction, but researchers in the public and private sector are already looking at how current technology can terraform Mars, in part because it would make permanent human settlements much more plausible....

In a paper published today in Nature Climate Change, researchers discuss evidence that shows greenhouse gas emissions have actually gone down. Projections of greenhouse gas emissions for 2015 (which still has a little less than a month left) show a decrease in emissions of 0.6 percent compared to last year. Greenhouse gasses can cause heat to become trapped in the atmosphere, which contributes to climate change. That small decline might not seem like a lot, but the fact that those numbers are going down after a long upwards climb is very good news....

For four years, the telescope stared at a patch of sky, waiting for each star to darken, which would indicate an exoplanet passing in front of it. The telescope monitored more than 150,000 stars, but one star in particular stood out to citizen scientists who were helping to analyze the Kepler data: KIC 8462852, located 1480 light-years away. When a planet passes in front of a star, the star dims only for a few hours or days, and on a regular basis– every 365 days, for example....