Radioisotope generators − inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
Benjamin Roulston, Clarkson University
Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the Sun’s light can feel on Earth....
A Critical Deficit
Flawed thinking can lead us into a lifetime of pointless arguments and bad decisions. Fixing the problem won't be easy — but we know...
Daylight saving time and early school start times cost billions in lost productivity and...
Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, University of Pittsburgh
Investigations into the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster revealed that key decision-makers worked on little sleep, raising concerns that fatigue...
As the US government removes health websites and data, here’s a list of non-government...
by Naseem S. Miller, The Journalist's Resource February 3, 2025
Last updated Feb. 15, 2025.
On Friday night, Dr. Gordon Schiff, the quality and safety director...
Concrete Poetry: Thomas Edison and the Almost-Built World
By Anthony Acciavatti
Historians often speak of “contingency”, by which they mean something like “things could have been otherwise”. But is this even true? It can...
