The writer is a senior fellow at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School It is increasingly clear that the crises we face today – in climate, energy and security – can only be addressed through ambitious projects. But how can we raise capital for them? Usually, it is only when a … Read more
For those who are bored with drinking plain water or prefer to add bubbles without calories, sparkling water is a popular choice. But besides the bubbles, many sparkling waters offer nice flavors or artificial junk. Aura Bora founders Paul and Maddie Voge set out to change all that with their bold, natural and different flavor … Read more
Is our solar system similar to other solar systems? What do other systems look like? We know from studies of exoplanets that many other systems have hot exoplanets, huge gas giants that orbit near their stars. Is this normal and our solar system is outside? One way to address these questions is to study the … Read more
The Forest Management Institute (FMI) is a governmental organization, established by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic, which is responsible for implementing the National Forest Inventory. In 2018, FMI began working with Planet datasets to perform a comprehensive geospatial analysis and report on the devastating effects of a bark beetle epidemic on Czech … Read more
Conceptual drawing of a Mars sample retrieval lander. (Image credit: NASA) Returning robots to the original samples from the surface of Mars has been a sacred goal of Red Planet investigators for many years. During that time, return strategies Mars The collectibles ranged from “grab and go” acquisitions from the surface to collecting dust in … Read more
The Boeing Starliner capsule is ready to launch again. During its flight readiness review Wednesday (May 11), NASA allowed Starliner to launch on Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2), a crucial unmanned mission to the International Space Station. The decision keeps the Boeing spacecraft on track for its May 19 launch at 6:54 p.m. EDT (2254 … Read more
It’s a question that has plagued astronomers for years: How did this happen? supermassive black holes, which could weigh billions of times the mass of the Sun, grow very, very fast? Now, scientists are closer than ever to an answer. NASA announced last week that a potential “missing link” between the universe’s first supermassive black … Read more
Using traditional toilet paper made from trees can be harmful to the environment. Alternatives like bidets and paper produced from bamboo and sugarcane can help the planet. Some brands, such as No. 2 and Who Gives A Crap, hits with the potty humor. Download Something is uploading. It’s not something we often talk about in … Read more
A speck of light that scientists crossed out as a distant galaxy may actually be the brightest pulsar ever discovered outside the Milky Way. Its name is PSR J0523−7125 and is located about 160,000 light-years away from Land In the Large Magellanic Cloud (a satellite galaxy orbiting around Milky Way), the newly identified pulsar is … Read more
Story and photo by Karen Boucek Diana Cap, a part-time resident of Ketchum, showed up at Sun Valley Community School last week wearing a poncho made of soda tab. It was an attractive way to draw attention to the creative ways in which waste can be recycled. And an even more engaging way to draw … Read more
