February 26, 2016
FBI Versus Apple
On February 16, Apple was ordered to unlock the phone of the San Bernardino shooter. On the surface, it appears a mundane instance of corporate…
January 20, 2016
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – The Future of Spaceflight
On December 21, SpaceX made history. A Falcon 9 rocket landed undamaged at a landing site after the ORBCOMM-2 launch.
December 12, 2015
Calciferous Organisms & Climate Change
Organisms with calciferous, or calcium-based, shells may help us understand how ocean warming, deoxygenation, and acidification affect marine life.
November 3, 2015
Tesla P85D Self-Driving Review
A few weeks ago, Tesla, a company famed for being a frontrunner in innovation in the automobile industry, released a free software update enabling their…
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…
October 20, 2015
We Might Be Martians
The discovery of water on mars is like the transition from a geocentric to a heliocentric theory in importance. Everyone knew Earth might not be…
October 2, 2015
Total Supermoon Lunar Eclipse
This past Sunday, Sept 27, at 7:51 p.m., a total supermoon lunar eclipse happened. This is more than just a great band name, it's a…