by Mallory Hughes | Aug 17, 2015 | Politics, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — In a typical Demo Day for new companies, teams pitch to prospective investors. But this was not typical. At the White House recently, budding startups had a different opportunity—pitching to the President of the United States. As part of the Startup...
by Jin Wu | Jul 31, 2015 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON—You’re probably one of the 91 percent of American adults who think they’ve lost control over how their personal information is collected and used by companies (according to a Pew Research study in early 2015). But big data collection brings benefits that...
by Siyao Long | Jul 28, 2015 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – Thrilled by a historical flyby of Pluto, NASA is seeking funding for future missions and to finance continued analysis of data from the fascinating dwarf planet. “People love exploration, that’s the take-away we got from the Pluto flyby,” said Alan Stern,...
by Phoebe Tollefson | Jul 27, 2015 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — As Congress navigates another last-minute scramble to approve funding for the nation’s highways ahead of a July 31 deadline, engineers far-removed from the Capitol Hill gridlock are hard at work improving the stuff that sustains our nation’s roads and...
by Yuan Gu | Jul 27, 2015 | Science + Technology
Drone hobbyists holds a drone marketplace Saturday at Reston, Virginia where you can trade or swap drone parts and also take a close look at the structure of drones.
by Siyao Long | Jul 23, 2015 | Science + Technology, Topics
WASHINGTON — Scientists have found the most Earth-like exoplanet yet. On Thursday, NASA confirmed during a teleconference that its Kepler Space Telescope mission has discovered the Earth’s bigger, older cousin — Kepler-452b, a body 1,400 light-years...
