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Report says NASA lost historical artifacts due to lax procedures
NASA's Office of Inspector General has released a new report detailing shortcomings in how the agency manages its historical items, The Verge reports. Over the years, NASA has apparently lost a number of assets, including a lunar soil collection bag,...
Missouri wants to bring Hyperloop to the midwest
The state of Missouri has signed a deal with Virgin Hyperloop One to investigate if it's worth building a high-speed link between three of its biggest cities. A team of interested parties will examine the feasibility of constructing a route between K...
DARPA is helping five groups create neural interfaces for our brains
Elon Musk isn't the only one looking to rummage around inside your skull. DARPA announced on Monday that it has selected its five grant recipients for the Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) program, which it began at the start of this year. Brow...
Miss District of Columbia Kára McCullough Crowned Miss USA 2017
A 25-year old chemist Kára McCullough from District of Columbia has been crowned Miss USA on Sunday night. She is the second consecutive D.C. contestant to take the Miss America title. Last year, an...
Apollo 11 Space Capsule Columbia Goes on an American Road Tour
Apollo 11 the space capsule will have its trip to moon after 40 years. The first every mission was in 1969 that took astronauts to moon for the first time. Now the 50th anniversary of mission will...
Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster Remembered on 14th Anniversary
Even for 14th anniversary of Columbia Space Shuttle disaster happened this Wednesday. In this disaster the astronauts died due to craft crash while reentering on fab 1 2003.A tweet posted by Mark...
NASA will use Apollo 1 hatch to honor fallen crew
Apollo 13 might be the space mission that everyone knows offhand thanks to director Ron Howard's movie, but it wasn't the first to experience critical failures. On January 27th, 1967 the three-man Apollo 1 crew was trapped inside its spacecraft, stil...
ICYMI: Targeting Zika with tech, flexi-cam and more
Today on In Case You Missed It: Brazil is taking on the Zika virus by creating a smart billboard that attracts, then kills mosquitoes. Columbia University researchers built a camera prototype that takes pictures at a curve. And a Chinese company ha...
ICYMI: Steps for electricity, scoliosis exosuit and more
Today on In Case You Missed It: Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison made shoes that store energy from steps inside internal batteries, making them the coolest transport hybrid yet. Columbia scientists built a prototype for a robotic ex...