In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts found an unusual white rock on the Moon (Image Credit: NASA) When Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin explored the Moon in 1971, they were looking for rocks that could reveal how the lunar surface formed. During their mission, they spotted an unusually bright fragment near Spur Crater,…

A worker prepares the well on a Boston-area horse farm to lower Eden’s electrode (Image Credit: Bob O’Connor via IEE Spectrum) What if the rocks beneath our feet could one day be turned into a giant hydrogen factory, not by drilling up an existing fuel reserve, but by sending controlled bursts of electricity deep underground?…

 22-year-old college student was shot and killed by police in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo) A 22-year-old college student was shot and killed by police in Pennsylvania after he mistakenly went to the wrong house and was waiting for his friends to pick him up, his father said.Police in Upper Pottsgrove Township, northwest of Philadelphia, responded around…

French’s journey started in the Spark Lab at Lexington Senior High School, where students are encouraged to explore emerging technologies and to build ideas that have real-world applications. A high school student’s vision of a virtual classroom is about to go far beyond the walls where it started. Lennox French, a student at Lexington Senior…

PC: Eocene penguin fossils as archives of Antarctic weathering and climate change: insights from micro-X-ray fluorescence elemental mapping Fifty-five million years ago, Antarctica looked nothing like the frozen continent we know today. Its coastlines were warm and humid, its shores home to some of the earliest penguins ever to exist, and its rocks were quietly…