Driving into Darkness: The Great American Eclipse Meets the Great American Sports Car

– Trace the fat stripe of the Great American Eclipse of 2017 and you’ll see that Bowling Green, Kentucky, sat neatly on the edge of totality. Bowling Green is home to the Chevrolet Corvette assembly line, as well as the National Corvette Museum and the NCM Motorsports Park. The eclipse set off one of the […]

Here’s how stocks perform after a solar eclipse

A total solar eclipse may represent a blockage of sunlight, but the stock market has historically caught fire after past occurrences. US equity prices have climbed an average of 17.2% in the year following total solar eclipses visible from the US, according to data compiled by LPL Financial. The last time came in July 1991, […]

Total eclipse of the Ars

Enlarge / The partial eclipse from New York City. (credit: John Timmer) Our staff is sharing its eclipse stories and photos from today. The post will be updated as more come in. OAKLAND, Calif.—Oakland and the surrounding Bay Area are well-known for morning fog, particularly in the summertime. So despite having two telescopes and the […]

Netflix Ratings Dropped 10 Percent During Total Solar Eclipse

Things were not looking up for Netflix during Monday’s total solar eclipse — because you were. Several hours after the astronomical phenomenon finished its crawl across the United States, the notoriously secretive streaming service posted a surprisingly honest tweet about how the eclipse affected its ratings: but really, there was a 10% drop in plays during the […]