Garage Inventors
All over the country, amazing science is happening without institutional or government funding. Matt Cavnar talked to inventors in garages, basements, a Quonset hut, even NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab to...
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Desert Planes and Automobiles
I’ve just spent a fascinating day in the desert an hour and a half north of Los Angeles.It was an Art Center College of Design field trip. First stop was a hangar-cum-workshop at the Mojave airport –...
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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
This week in “Thanks, Internet” — NASA launches a Soundcloud, Sleater-Kinney returns, Brad Pitt gets ferned, SNL re-opens, and goats discover the power of the dark side.1. NASA Joins The CloudNASA...
View ArticleIt’s a Giant Dirt Igloo – Want to Buy It?
In Hesperia, California, the late architect Nader Khalili created a housing movement for the future. Khalili prototyped his dome-shaped adobes on a commission from NASA for a lunar colony. Then he...
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Imagine Your Next Vacation Destination: Kepler-186f
The near future of space travel seems to be privately funded by billionaires like Elon Musk and Richard Branson. Meanwhile, NASA has had to lobby for funding among all the other government agencies...
View ArticleIdentical Twins, One in Space, One on Earth
Last month, American Astronaut Scott Kelly was launched into space, along with Russia's Mikhail Kornienko. Together, they will spend a year on the International Space Station, completing the longest...
View ArticleDomestic Terrorism, Winning The Internet, The First Ladies of Space
June 19th, 2015 | 1. Charleston & The Fight Against Domestic Terrorism | 2. Movie Date: Films to See and Avoid This Weekend | 3. The Best Five Things Online This Week | 4. The First Ladies of...
View ArticleA Mission to Mars, 'Unthinkable' Violence, Toxic Symbols
June 24, 2015: Obama Orders Change in U.S. Hostage Policy | 2. Stop Saying Mass Shootings Are 'Unthinkable' | 3. The Confederate Flag & A History of Toxic Symbols | 4. Six Scientists Return from...
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Six Scientists Return from 'Mars'
We've all had those days with co-workers—it's been a long day, and you're just ready to say goodbye at the end of your shift.But what if your shift didn't end after eight hours, or 24 hours, or even 24...
View ArticlePreventing a NASA Dark Age
As recently as 1990, NASA's early archives were edging toward technological extinction - with magnetic reels of data that couldn't be read. An iconic image of earth, the 1966 photo known as...
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NASA’s New Horizons Mission Flies by Pluto
It’s traveled some three billion miles from Earth, on a journey that has taken more than nine years, but today NASA’s New Horizons probe finally reached its destination, hurtling past Pluto and its...
View ArticleRiding By Pluto, A Historic Agreenment, An Infamous Experiment
July 14, 2015: 1. What You Need to Know About the Iran Deal | 2. NASA’s New Horizons Mission Flies by Pluto | 3. Iranian-Americans Celebrate a Path to Normalcy | 4. Meet the Military's First Openly...
View ArticlePluto's Close Up
After almost 10 years, and three billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft revealed Pluto in high resolution for the first time. George Musser, contributing editor at Scientific American, discusses...
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NASA Captures Surprising Photos of Pluto
NASA scientists are getting real data back from their New Horizon spacecraft, which is three billion miles away. The mission has captured images of Pluto's icy peaks—some as tall as 11,000...
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Earth Gets a New Selfie After 43 Years
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.In December of 1972, the crew of the Apollo 17 mission captured Earth in its entirety for the first time. The Blue Marble photograph snapped by...
View ArticleEarthrise: Behind the Lens
Brian talks with Major General William Anders, the astronaut on the Apollo 8 mission who turned his camera on the “earthrise,” and learns first-hand what it’s like to see the earth as a whole.
View ArticleHollywood and NASA Are Having a Love Affair
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Hollywood has been in love with space for decades—think "2001: A Space Oddysy," "Alien," and "Star Wars." But this isn't a one-sided love affair....
View ArticleAn Astronaut’s Husband, Left Behind
Dr. Jonathan Clark and his eight year-old son Iain watched the space shuttle Columbia launch from Kennedy Space Center on January 16, 2003. Sixteen days later, Columbia exploded upon re-entry into the...
View ArticleAh Aliens, Ah Humanity Edition
Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss CW's musical comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, whether NASA has discussed a super alien race with Slate's Bad Astronomer Phil Plait, and the digitally...
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Pluto gets festive for Christmas in the cosmos
A holiday-themed, false color portrait of Pluto, created using a pair of Ralph/LEISA instrument scans taken by the New Horizons probe on its flyby on July 14. Image by NASA/JHUAPL/SwRIPluto is the gift...
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