by Sara J. Martinez | Dec 5, 2011 | Education, National Security
How entertainment technology is helping service members and veterans through training, deployment and rehabilitation WASHINGTON — For one soldier, something as simple as rolling the dice in a game of Risk made the difference between a good and a bad day during...
by Sara J. Martinez | Nov 29, 2011 | Science + Technology
Next time you go to smash your guitar after a particularly rocking concert, realize that you may be destroying a section of a 250-year-old spruce tree, a rare cut of mahogany, or a slice of endangered Brazilian rosewood. Musical instruments don’t use much...
by Sara J. Martinez | Nov 3, 2011 | Education, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Science, technology, engineering and math education in the United States should be improved not by changing the way it is taught, but by changing the way its teachers are educated, a panel of science professionals recommended to Congress on Thursday....
by Sara J. Martinez | Nov 2, 2011 | Topics
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by Sara J. Martinez | Nov 2, 2011 | Science + Technology
Watch the second in a series of six Phase 1 water landing tests for NASA’s Orion multi-purpose crew vehicle. The data collected from these tests will be implemented in the final design of the spacecraft that will someday take astronauts to Mars.