NASA’s youngest researcher Yair Israel Piña López, 20, might be on his way to Mars. Continue reading NASA’s Youngest Researcher Poised To Be First Mexican On Mars
Soon after Hidden Figures was acknowledged with three Oscar nominations, a woman named Raye Montague spoke with Good Morning America about her own experience as a “hidden figure” in the Navy, Yahoo reports. Continue reading This Woman Was The Navy’s “Hidden Figure”
Tiera Guinn is just 22 years old and she’s already working for NASA. Continue reading This 22-Year-Old Is Already An Engineer At NASA
Amazon is launching a new STEM Club subscription service for monthly, STEM-related toys. For $19.99 a month (plus tax), Amazon will deliver a “hand selected” educational toy that will theoretically both entertain and educate a child in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. Continue reading Amazon will now send your kids tech and science toys for $20 a month
The hottest designer at the next Fashion Week may well be your smartphone. Continue reading Google and H&M collaborate on a new ‘Data Dress’
Exploring the work and lives of NASA personnel Continue reading The author of The Martian is writing a NASA TV pilot for CBS
Chevrolet brought a lot of cool vehicles to the 2017 North American International Auto Show. The coolest — by far — was their life-sized Lego Batmobile. Continue reading Chevy Brought a Life-Sized Lego Batmobile to the Detroit Auto Show
Comedian Aziz Ansari will host “Saturday Night Live” on Jan. 21, the NBC show announced Tuesday, and in doing so, he will make history as its first host of South Asian descent. Continue reading Aziz Ansari will be SNL’s first South Asian American host
THE MOST INTERESTING thing about Herzog and De Meuron’s newly opened concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie, isn’t its wave-like facade, which rises above the city of Hamburg, Germany. It’s not the gently curved elevator at the base of the lobby that deposits you into the belly of the Swiss architects’ alien landscape. And it’s not the Escher-esque stairways that guide you from one floor to the next. Continue reading What Happens When Algorithms Design a Concert Hall? The Stunning Elbphilharmonie
GM is teaming up with Girls Who Code (GWC), the national no-profit seeking to help close the gender gap in STEM education and professional fields. The partnership will see GM provide a $250,000 grant to help grow GWC’s Clubs, an after-school program that provides free activities for students in community centers and academic institutions to help boost computing and other technical skills and encourage more women to enter the high-tech workforce in the U.S. Continue reading GM partners with Girls Who Code with $250K grant for after-school activities