Feb 17, 2012 | Forbes
Masten Xaero reusable launch vehicle Are you a high school teacher of science, technology, engineering, or math? Do you like space? Do you know that, with the advent of private space companies, NASA won’t be the only way to get there? If so, there’s a workshop just...
Feb 15, 2012 | Forbes
CleanSpace One Space is a dirty place. Over 16,000 pieces of debris over 10 cm wide have been left behind since Sputnik took to the skies in 1957. And now the Swiss want to do something about it. Scientists with the Swiss Space Center at the École Polytechnique...
Feb 9, 2012 | Forbes
Crickets chirp to attract mates and warn off the competition, and crickets 165 million years ago chirped (technically, “stridulated”) for the same reasons. But Jurassic-age crickets, Archaboilus musicus, were Jurassic shaped, with different forewings—which crickets...
Jan 24, 2012 | Forbes
Image via SpaceX On February 7, 2012, SpaceX, the private space transportation company, will be launching its reusable spacecraft, Dragon, to the International Space Station (ISS). Because you and I won’t be riding the Dragon just yet, I have the next best thing to...
Jan 23, 2012 | Forbes
Image via Centro Astronomico When Dom Perignon first created sparkling champagne, he supposedly said, “I’m tasting stars.” But for those who drink Meteorito, a Cabernet Sauvignon, it’s close to truth: this Chilean red has been aged with a 4.5 billion-year-old...