Success in business, like success in athletics, is often tied to the ability to be faster and more agile than an opponent. Success in scientific research tends to be achieved through a slower, nuanced process […]
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Q+A: Can NASA Really Predict — and Divert — Harmful Asteroids?
The name “Planetary Defense Coordination Office” evokes such sci-fi motifs as laser canons pointed skyward and angry, space ship-riding aliens. In actuality, the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) that NASA announced earlier this month deals […]
Hacking the Heavens
If the stars in the sky could play music, what would it sound like? One Drexel engineer used a bit of star data and a special piano to turn the twinkling of the stars into […]