Phillip A. Williams, Ph.D.
Phillip A. Williams, Ph.D. Program Executive (Acting) Follow NASA Technology Phillip A. Williams, Ph.D., serves as the Program Executive (Acting) and Program Manager for the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program, the Center Innovation Fund (CIF), and the Early Career Initiative (ECI) within NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD). InContinue Reading
Sayantee Roy
Sayantee Roy NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Research Fellow, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center I am a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at the Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center and working with the Langley Aerosol Research Group Experiment (LARGE) team.My work in this role focuses on studying properties and dynamicsContinue Reading
Dragon Targets Friday Launch as Crew Keeps Up Science and Spacewalk Preps
From left, astronauts Sophie Adenot and Jessica Meir pose for a portrait inside the International Space Station’s cupola on Mother’s Day. Credit: NASA/Jessica Meir SpaceX CRS-34, the next mission to resupply the International Space Station, is now targeting its launch for no earlier than 6:05 p.m. EDT on Friday, MayContinue Reading
2 dead after plane crashes into Ohio home
Two people were killed after a plane crashed into a residence in Akron, Ohio, on Thursday afternoon, local and federal authorities said, Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
Next steps for Murdaugh case: Prosecutors aims to move quickly for retrial
Alex Murdaugh could be heading back to court by the end of the year, with South Carolina’s attorney general saying his office will “aggressively seek” Murdaugh’s retrial “as soon as possible.” Murdaugh’s double murder conviction was overturned after the state’s Supreme Court found that a former county clerk improperly influencedContinue Reading
What Your Landlord Doesn’t Want You to Know (ft. Tara Raghuveer)
Are you sick and tired of dealing with soaring rent and crumbling buildings? Do you want to level the playing field between landlords and tenants? Then it’s time to join a tenant union. Tara Raghuveer explains. To learn more about tenant unions and how you can start one: https://tenantfederation.org/Continue Reading
PBS News Hour live episode, May 14, 2026
Watch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show. Sign up for Here’s The Deal with Lisa Desjardins: https://to.pbs.org/41q6E8i Subscribe for exclusive content in our newsletters: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/subscribe PBS News podcasts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcastsContinue Reading
The Beach Boys reflect on 60 years of ‘Pet Sounds’ | AP interview
The surviving members of The Beach Boys — Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston — reunited at the iconic Capitol Records building in Los Angeles to celebrate the 60th anniversary of “Pet Sounds,” the landmark album that was released May 16, 1966. In this interview with Associated Press entertainmentContinue Reading
A Bridge Too Small: Why $49 Billion Can’t Fix a $1.5 Trillion Problem
Welcome to The Iron Triangle, the Cipher Brief column serving Procurement Officers tasked with buying the future, Investors funding the next generation of defense technology, and the Policy Wonks analyzing its impact on the global order. At least once per week, I meet well-intended, patriotic investors putting together funds aimedContinue Reading
The Bear and the Dragon: The Threat of Sino-Russian Opportunism and Intelligence Miscalculation
KREMLIN FILES/COLUMN: As Washington’s attention continues to be diverted with an Iran unwilling to come to a comprehensive peace, a more dangerous question lurks in the strategic shadows: what if America’s most daunting rivals, one of whom is already at war, and the other not, decide to act with whatContinue Reading
The Traitor’s Tech Posse in China, Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman, and Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories
Today on Uncanny Valley, we discuss how Traitor 47’s visit to China could influence conversations between world leaders at a moment when the economic and foreign policy stakes couldn’t be higher.Continue Reading
As other automakers retrench, Toyota has four new EVs in the works
WTH is Toyota thinking? Is it serving up new EVs as the US market collapses? Not at all—its methodical approach validates the EV transition. When an auto reporter gets pretty much the same question on the same day from two different people—one at a major auto brand, the other aContinue Reading
Trinseo’s new lithium-ion anode binder reduces DCIR and surface resistivity with uniform electrode distribution
Trinseo has launched VOLTABOND 211, a water-based styrene-butadiene (SBR) binder for graphite- and silicon-based lithium-ion battery anodes. Compared to the company’s second-generation VOLTABOND 029, the new material delivers a 5% reduction in electrode surface resistivity and up to 18% lower direct current internal resistance (DCIR) across a full cell—validated inContinue Reading