May 4, 2016
San Francisco: A Gathering Place (Photo Essay)
San Francisco is the core of the Bay Area both culturally and geographically. It serves as a gathering place where people from all parts of…
December 1, 2015
Texting and Terrorism: Can Computers Understand your Texts?
In the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, many are asking how terrorists were able to mount a coordinated attack on a major…
October 28, 2015
Orbits for Less
Why is reaching orbit so extraordinarily expensive? Each launch of a space shuttle costs between 500 million and 1.5 billion dollars, excluding any payload. A…