by Danielle Prieur | Jul 14, 2016 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — NASA Human Exploration and Operations Administrator William Gerstenmaier said Wednesday that the space agency would be open to the possibility of private companies docking their shuttles in a special port on the International Space Station. Attorney...
by Danielle Prieur | Jul 12, 2016 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — What began as a sedate hearing on “Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Astrobiology,” turned into a discussion Tuesday that could have come from the script of a Hollywood movie like “Armageddon.” “What’s really important is making sure our Earth isn’t...
by Danielle Prieur | Jun 30, 2016 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON –While the Pentagon has dropped its ban on transgender troops, the world of science is struggling to improve the history of harassment against transgender physicists and other scientists. According to a recent study by the American Physical Society and the...
by Xuanyan (Iris) Ouyang | Jun 30, 2016 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – Traffic jams and tie-ups cost Americans about 38 hours a year in wasted time, but data analysis, autonomous cars and new digital transportation tools are in the works to make travel more efficient and less frustrating, experts told a Senate subcommittee...
by Nick Zazulia | May 23, 2016 | Science + Technology
BALTIMORE—It turns out that being glued to a device all day doesn’t do as much to make kids skilled at using tech as you might think. The National Assessment Governing Board’s assessment of 21,000 American eighth-graders’ technology literacy was the...
by Nick Zazulia | May 23, 2016 | Science + Technology
BALTIMORE–The engineering field is failing in diversity. That was the opening message at “Priming the Pipeline: The Push for Diversity at Engineering Schools” Thursday at the U.S. News STEM Solutions Conference. In 2013, African-Americans made up...
