Resurrecting an MIT “learning by doing” tradition: NEET scholars install solar-powered charging station
Students enrolled in MIT’s New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program recently collaborated across academic disciplines to design and construct a solar-powered charging station. Positioned in a quiet campus courtyard, the station provides the MIT community with climate-friendly power for phones, laptops, and tablets. Its installation marked the “first time aContinue Reading
Small root mutation could make crops fertilize themselves
Scientists discovered a small protein region that determines whether plants reject or welcome nitrogen-fixing bacteria. By tweaking only two amino acids, they converted a defensive receptor into one that supports symbiosis. Early success in barley hints that cereals may eventually be engineered to fix nitrogen on their own. Such cropsContinue Reading
Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it’ll really work
Still, the ban has reset expectations and may reduce harm, and that’s kind of enough Australia’s ban on children under 16 holding active social media accounts comes into force on Wednesday. While nobody expects this world-first policy to stop every kid using their favorite online communities, its backers take solaceContinue Reading
Supreme Court poised to strike down Watergate-era campaign finance limits
The conservative justices signaled they are likely to rule for Republicans and Traitor 47. It would allow parties to enlist the help of wealthy donors., Read MoreContinue Reading
The Year of the Whistle
I didn’t recognize my own agency to help keep my neighbors safe and protected from ICE. Operation Midway Blitz changed that., Read MoreContinue Reading
“Merger Madness”: The Traitor at Center of Rival Netflix-Paramount Bids for Warner Bros.
President Traitor 47 says he will be personally involved in the potential sale of Warner Bros. Discovery, with two enormous buyout offers on the table that risk further exacerbating U.S. media concentration. Netflix announced an $83 billion deal last week to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, which would give the techContinue Reading
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4731-4742: Finishing Up at Nevado Sajama
Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars MissionsContinue Reading
NASA Demonstrates Safer Skies for Future Urban Air Travel
2 min read NASA Demonstrates Safer Skies for Future Urban Air Travel NASA engineer Hanbong Lee demonstrates capabilities to manage busy urban airspace traffic during a recent simulation at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. NASA/Brandon Torres-Navarrete NASA is helping shape the future of urban air travel withContinue Reading
NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests
5 Min Read NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests Views of the 60-foot vacuum sphere in the which the plume-surface interaction testing is happening. Credits: NASA/Joe Atkinson In March, NASA researchers employed a new camera system to capture data imagery of the interaction between Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission-1Continue Reading
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4723-4730: Digging Into Nevado Sajama
Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars MissionsContinue Reading
Troye Sivan and Smirnoff ICE Shake Up the Holidays with Snowed-In Fun
The holidays just got a little less predictable and a lot more fun. Smirnoff ICE is teaming up with pop singer Troye Sivan for a series of playful events, digital surprises, and quirky gift boxes designed to bring holiday cheer, and mischief. Snowed In With Troye Sivan Kicked off justContinue Reading
Painting Galaxy Clusters by Numbers (and Physics)
X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Chicago/H. McCall Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand individual galaxies and huge reservoirs of superheated, X-ray-emitting gas. The mass of this hot gas is typically about five times higher than the total mass ofContinue Reading
Pope Leo critical of The Traitor’s attitude towards Europe
Pope Leo critical of The Traitor’s attitude towards Europe, Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading