Sitting in Eddie Fong’s living room in Palo Alto is a 55-year-old model of a traditional Chinese junk boat. Its presence symbolizes a series of unlikely events that brought Fong, now 81, away from his ...

Purdue University engineers have developed a space-debris-clearing drag sail called Spinnaker3 that is designed to speed up the deorbiting of space junk up to 400 miles (645 km) high so it safely ...

You may not know what a junk boat is, but odds are high that you’ve seen one. The junk boat — tall and wooden with its three bright-red sails glowing in the Victoria Harbor sunlight — is one of the ...