NASA’s TESS spacecraft is finding hundreds of exoplanets
Daniel Apai, University of Arizona and Benjamin Rackham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NASA's TESS spacecraft is finding hundreds of exoplanets – and is poised to...
Diabetic foot wounds kill millions, but high-tech solutions and teamwork are...
David G. Armstrong, University of Southern California
What if someone told you that there’s a disease you could catch where you couldn’t feel any symptoms...
How the US census kickstarted America’s computing industry
David Lindsay Roberts, Prince George's Community College
The U.S. Constitution requires that a population count be conducted at the beginning of every decade. This census...
Better batteries are fueling a surge of electric scooters in India...
Scooters and motorcycles are widely used in developing countries and are better suited to electrification than sedans.
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Venkat Viswanathan, Carnegie Mellon University...
How the electric power system we take for granted came to...
Buildings at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, illuminated by George Westinghouse’s alternating current.
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Jay Apt, Carnegie Mellon University
Many experts...
How do lithium-ion batteries work?
Lithium-ion batteries power lots of different kinds of devices.
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Robert Masse, University of Washington
Three researchers who developed a technology at the heart of the...
5 milestones that created the internet
50 years after the first network message
This SDS Sigma 7 computer sent the first message over the predecessor of the internet in 1969.
Andrew 'FastLizard4'...
The First Pinpoint Landing on the Moon
Apollo 12: Fifty years ago, a passionate scientist's keen eye led to the first pinpoint landing on the Moon
Timothy Swindle, University of Arizona
When Apollo...