BART could soon become a ‘sanctuary in transit’ for people in the U.S. illegally The busiest rapid transit rail system in California would be the first agency to designate itself a sanctuary in transit.

NASA Has Finally Built a Computer Chip To Survive on Venus You might wonder why Mars gets all the interplanetary attention when Venus, our sister planet, is actually closer. Well, the hellish orb has the hottest surface in the solar system, hotter even than Mercury. Combined with its dense, caustic atmospher Read more ... e, none of our computers can handle Venus for more...

Spectacular Relief from the World at the Australian Open Waking up to matches featuring Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, and Venus and Serena Williams.

Transit app begins crowdsourcing data to provide accurate, real-time info If you've ever used transit directions from any app, you'll know that sometimes their estimates of how long a trip can take will be wildly inaccurate. That's true for Transit, too – one of the best transit apps available, but Transit at least wants Read more ... to do something about it, using crowdsourced data f...

Trulia's New Rent Near Transit Feature Maps Out Rentals Close Rapid Transit There are certain considerations you have to make when you live in a big city, and public transit may be one of them. If you rely on public transportation to get around, you may want to live close to a station, and this new tool from Trulia lets you Read more ... search accordingly.

Photos and live stream: Mercury’s transit across the sun

Watch The Darkest Planet In The Universe Transit Its Star [LIVE!] Black Knight is an impossibly black exoplanet, a planet closer to its star than Mercury is to ours and blacker than coal. Today, it passes in front of its sun, and you can watch the transit live with astronomers using the world’s largest infrared t Read more ... elescope.

Google Maps Begins Showing Live Public Transit Info Google Maps has already been pretty good at providing public transit info. The one problem is that it only went on typical schedules. If there was a delay or a particular route was canceled, Maps wouldn’t let you know. Now, that changes with the ad Read more ... dition of real-time transit info.

Get a Crash Course In The Planet Venus (VIDEO) Learn all about Venus in this week’s episode, and then go outside after sunset and see it for yourself, shining brilliantly in the west.

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