by Ritu Prasad | Aug 31, 2017 | Environment, Featured, Science + Technology
It was June 29, and Dexter Rawlings had finished his first day of on-the-job training, installing solar panels on the rooftops of Washington. After hours under the unforgiving summer sun, he arrived home, exhausted. But an email was waiting for him with an encouraging...
by Ritu Prasad | Aug 25, 2017 | Featured, Science + Technology
What NASA knows about the space rocks coming into our neck of the solar system this year WASHINGTON — What’s better than a story about the apocalypse? We’ve been figuring out the best and brightest ways for humanity to end-as-we-know-it since we started telling...
by Ritu Prasad | Aug 21, 2017 | Business & Tech
Washington — Origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, seems like an unconventional way to find a love for engineering. But for Islamabad high schooler Ahmed Waheed, 15, the technical precision of folding intricate paper models sparked an interest...
by Ritu Prasad | Aug 21, 2017 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Washington’s hot, humid summer has certainly caused those in the nation’s capital to sweat it out, but it’s just what the city’s three corpse flowers — which bloom with a violent stench — needed. The largest of the three super-sized, super-stinky blooms...
by Ritu Prasad | Aug 9, 2017 | Environment, Featured
Shark Week 2017 has come to a close, but that doesn’t mean the shark conversation should end. We can let the CGI one that raced Michael Phelps go until next year, but the 500-plus species currently living in our oceans need us to keep the discussion about shark...