Created and designed by Staples High School sophomore Rohan Sareen and senior Shreyas Gorre, the lanterns use lights, wires, batteries and solar panels for sustainable illumination. Shreyas Gorre and Rohan Sareen, with their solar-powered lanterns. === Despite the rise of the internet, Consumer ...
Burlington’s Lake Champlain is beautiful on an ordinary day, so watching the total solar eclipse there will be even more special. The eastern shores of the lake will get about 3 minutes and 15 seconds of totality. The city of Burlington, Vermont, is putting on a series of events to comm...
The Geminid meteor shower peaks the night of Dec. 13-14. Our guide tells you where and how to see them.
The route to the Bear Branch, Indiana Amish settlement took me through corkscrew twists and turns and atop narrow ridges that were more reminiscent of North Carolina than Indiana. I programmed the address I was headed to into my smartphone and followed the way. One hour and 19 minutes it dec...
"His new calculations show Comet Swift-Tuttle will pass a comfortable 15 million miles from Earth on its next trip to the inner solar system," Stephens wrote. Additional resources If you're interested in learning more about Comet Swift-Tuttle check out this interesting informative image entry by...
Used to be that hurricane season made me foolishly giddy. I once said, in fact wrote in this magazine over 20 years ago, that I couldn't bear to live anywhere without the threat of a hurricane. Well, my idea of a hurricane party now is lockin' it down, making sure the solar ...
Location: Near Choeng Mon, in its own quiet bay. An island stalwart, totally secluded on its namesake bay. A very private spot (also very car-dependent for outside excursions – or kayak across the bay to eat on nearby Choeng Mon Beach). Tongsai Bay’s beach sand isn’t quite as so...
Without this middle-ground commitment, the United States and its partners lack the production know-how that will be crucial for tomorrow’s batteries, the next generation of advanced computing, alternative solar photovoltaic cells, and active pharmaceutical ingredients. While this once mattered only ...
Holy Smokes! This was one long and informative post! Really appreciated all the detail and it brought back memories of travelling most every summer in my youth via Eurorail. Going to get back to that life with the wife in the not too distant future. Keep it coming!! The Nomads to Be ...
creating the solar wind. My favorite analogy is to compare the sun to a pan of tomato sauce simmering on the stove. If the heat is up, it will splatter in all directions, leaving a red ring on the stove top. If you leave something near the pan, it will get splattered with the sau...