About 20 miles offshore from Martha’s Vineyard, a yellow robotic buoy is bobbing in place just above the waves. Like most data-collection buoys, this moored robot is eavesdropping on the ...
Mark Lehman has an interesting job — at least he thinks so. As a data manager for the Mojave Desert Inventory and Monitoring Network, he organizes and analyzes data collected ...
Even before this pandemic, America had a long history of resistance to public health measures and new vaccines, but now that resistance is increasingly polarized by geography and party. By ...
A solar electric propulsion Hall Effect thruster being tested under vacuum conditions at NASA. Credit: NASA Plasma-based rocket designed for deep space exploration lasts longer and generates high power. The ...
The “mega Moon rocket” is not quite ready for opening night. After NASA’s third attempt to rehearse the fueling of the Space Launch System (SLS) failed due to leaking hydrogen, ...
When Albert Einstein was five years old, his father gave him a small pocket compass to amuse him while he was in bed with a brief illness. Seeing the invisible ...
In the sky above the desert, the Navy’s laser destroyed a drone pretending to be a missile. This demonstration is part of the Office of Naval Research’s test of a ...
Around 15 years ago, a slogan began to appear on bumper stickers, license plate holders, and tote bags: Save the bees. The sense that these pollinators—and the food system they ...
NASA is always searching for new ways to extend its ability to see into the outer reaches of the universe and, in its latest series of experiments, it’s exploring a ...
Phoebe Parker-Shames is, as far as she knows, the first Ph.D. ecology student to concentrate solely on cannabis. Since she arrived at UC Berkeley six years ago, she’s been collecting ...
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