Together in electric dreams: The poetic beauty of pylons

By Lucy Kenningham “The closer you look at beauty,” writes the novelist Alan Hollinghurst, “the more unsettling it becomes.” This line from the novel The Line of Beauty, in which the glamorous protagonist Nick Guest propels himself through life in the …

NASA’s DC-8 Completes Final Mission, Set to Retire

After 37 years of successful airborne science missions, NASA’s DC-8 aircraft completed its final mission and returned to the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, on April 1. The DC-8 and crew were welcomed bac…