Obama at Kennedy Space Center Giving Frontier Update
Obama met the media at Kennedy Space Center this April in celebration of the third anniversary of his first visit. Like a true politician however, he did an articulate job of making it seem like...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Urges America to Act Before Another Sputnik Moment
In the 1950s, the soviets launched what would be the deciding factor for our efforts of space exploration. The factor was called Sputnik, and it was simply a radio transmitter inside a gutted missile....
View ArticleSolar Impulse’s Sustainable Aircraft Successfully Making Cross Country Flight
With a wingspan wider than that of a Boeing 747 and 120,000 ultra-thin solar panels supplying sustainable energy, the Solar Impulse is definitely a one of a kind airplane. Solar Impulse is a solely...
View ArticleMIT Invents Earthworm Mimicking Robot
Until now, peristalsis, the shrinking of body segments to generate movement, has been hard to create robotically. Researchers at MIT, Harvard University and Seoul National University have not only...
View ArticleDuPont’s Robots Developing GM Crops
Genetically modified foods have huge advantages over traditionally grown foods. They can be tougher in droughts, suitable to alien climates, and even more nutritional than their organic counterparts....
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: JFK’s “We Choose to go to the Moon”
“We choose to go to the Moon, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.” JFK’s famous words still resonate clearly today. Although we don’t allocate the necessary funds to the epic purpose of...
View ArticleOur Planet is Beautiful and Powerful: Supercell Cloud Near Booker, Texas
Supercells aren’t just dangerous because they can spawn tornadoes. Supercells can bring forth hail, torrential rains, and even stronger-than-tornado-wind downbursts! But photographer Mike Olbinski...
View ArticleIf NASA Had a Commercial, It Would Be This Bada**
It’s about time someone created a commercial for America‘s greatest endeavor in space exploration. This unofficial spot created by science popularizer and international speaker Reid Gower is simply...
View ArticleWho Actually Won the Space Race? TEDEd Sets the Story Straight
We all know America made it to the Moon in a heated effort to ‘beat’ the Russians in the frontier of space exploration, but who really won the so called space race? Well, there’s an interesting story...
View ArticleHarvard Students Develop Transparent Ionic Gel-Based Speaker Opening New...
Material scientists Jeong-Yun Sun and Christoph Keplinger at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Scientists have developed a breakthrough technology that is enabling new, never before...
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