When Jay Flores isn’t climbing and leaping through obstacle courses to train for NBC’s American Ninja Warrior or traveling internationally to deliver energizing keynotes, he spends a lot of time…
New technologies and an influx of private investment are sparking developments in a field that seeks to realize a longstanding energy dream. The lithium in your laptop battery could be…
Plastic is truly a wonder material. Since the earliest versions hit the market, the lightweight, flexible polymers have remade the world—sometimes literally. Plastics have revolutionized medical devices, packaging and shipping,…
On July 8, 2011, the space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center into a cloudy sky in the last launch of the three-decade-old program. In the 10…
America is a car country. Drive-in movies, drive-through restaurants, road-trips, carpools: Our culture is full of odes to our automobiles. And even though people are increasingly trading in their gas-guzzling…
Asphalt covers more than 90 percent of the 2.7 million miles of paved roads in the United States. It’s a durable yet flexible material, creating smooth pavement for our traveling…