Category: Science & Tech

Perpetual motion machines could totally transform our relationship with energy … if only they worked.

People are just beginning to ask a very important question: How might our nation’s roads and highways, and the driving done by we humans ourselves, need to change as autonomous vehicles become more prevalent?

Humanity’s farthest and longest-lived spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, achieve 40 years of operation and exploration this August and September. Despite their vast distance, they continue to communicate with NASA daily, still probing the final frontier.

The fact that many major tech companies are headquartered in Silicon Valley doesn’t mean they don’t have a voice in Washington as well.

“During a solar minimum, we can expect more space weather events called coronal holes….can influence the functioning and reliability of spaceborne and ground-based systems and services or endanger property or human health.”