by Carmen Lopez and Yimian Wu | Nov 25, 2015 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — The National Building Museum is full of food cans this week, part of an innovative project to show that art can be made from anything. Twenty-four architecture and design teams spent six hours building sculptures with the cans as part of the annual...
by Sara Shouhayib | Oct 26, 2015 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Andrew Gayle of Miramar, Florida was one of 20 innovation students selected from across the U.S. to present an educational video game he created to Congressmen and women at the U.S. Capitol Thursday. Gayle’s game, called “The Trash...
by Brian MacIver | Oct 22, 2015 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Nearly 3,000 roadway deaths could be prevented worldwide every day if humans could be removed from the driving equation. Nobody’s talking about taking people out of their cars, but rather, taking them out of the driver’s seat. Every year, more than 1.2...
by Brian MacIver | Oct 13, 2015 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – In the box office hit “The Martian,” Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars who manages to survive and even grow plants on the barren planet. But that is nothing compared with what NASA really has in mind for Earth’s planetary neighbor. NASA has...
by Matt Yurus | Aug 28, 2015 | National Security, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — This week marks the beginning of the end for the Humvee. That’s because the US Army chose Oshkosh Defense to manufacture about 55,000 joint light tactical vehicles (JLTVs) that will become the successors to Humvees and mine-resistant,...
by Lucy Ren | Aug 26, 2015 | Business & Tech, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – Financial technology services, such as digital payments, are rapidly transforming the landscape of developing countries, while also contributing to a safer global financial system, experts said at a Brookings Institution panel Wednesday. The Brookings...
