Daily Archives: Mar 17, 2026

Charles Mitchell

7 Real Drivers Behind Glock’s Massive Pistol Line Cut

For years, Glock's commercial catalog has been a model of continuity: familiar frames, predictable generations, and a parts ecosystem rewarding standardization. That reputation is precisely why the company's decision to drop a large slice of its lineup landed as something more than a routine SKU cleanup. What looks like a...
James Thompson

2026 Engineering Breakthroughs: 5 Tools Changing Science Discovery

Across labs and observatories, a raft of recent results share a common theme: progress is being driven less by a single "big idea" and more by techniques that make stubborn phenomena measurable, comparable, and repeatable. For engineers, that shift matters. It changes what can be validated, what can be...
James Thompson

Eight New Spacecraft Views Hint at an Interstellar Comet’s Secrets

Only three interstellar objects have been confirmed as passing through the Solar System, and comet 3I/ATLAS is the first to arrive with the familiar toolkit of a comet: an icy nucleus, a living coma, and changing jets. A new set of eight spacecraft images turns that rarity into something interpretable....