Ball State third year construction management major Austin Elliott poses for a photo Dec. 9 in the Applied Technology Building. Kadin Bright, DN The house on West Carson Street in Muncie was packed.

French startup WheelMove demonstrated a compact motorized wheelchair add-on at CES 2026 that not only acts as a power-assist device, but can also lift up a chair's small front wheels so it can ride ...

Jordan Calhoun is Editor in Chief at Lifehacker and author of Piccolo Is Black: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Pop Culture. He holds a BA in Sociology and Criminal Justice, a BS in Psychology, and an ...

Social media users are blasting so-called "Jetway Jesus" and "miracle flight" occurrences, accusing more and more airline passengers of scamming the travel system by using wheelchairs to dodge lines ...

A paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers Saturday, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space while beholding Earth from on high.

A paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers Saturday, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space while beholding Earth from on high.

Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old German aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European Space Agency, just became the first wheelchair user ever to travel past the Kármán Line — a common ...

Michaela “Michi” Benthaus celebrates after going to space on Blue Origin’s NS-37 suborbital flight Dec. 20. Credit: Blue Origin webcast WASHINGTON — Blue Origin flew its final New Shepard suborbital ...

Michaela 'Michi' Benthaus is an aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the ESA. Blue Origin will make history when it sends the first person who uses a wheelchair past the Kármán line, an ...

An upcoming Blue Origin flight will mark a first for people with disabilities. The company said its next mission will include Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, an aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the ...

LOGAN, Utah — A 9-year-old Logan girl is living her Formula One dreams in Las Vegas this weekend after her Halloween costume caught the attention of her racing hero. Willa Mason, who has cerebral ...

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