Sinopsis
Innovation Now is a daily 90-second radio series and podcast that gives listeners a front row seat to hear compelling stories of revolutionary ideas, emerging technologies and the people behind the concepts that are shaping our future.
Episodios
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Quiet Supersonics
16/01/2019Once fully tested, the X-59 plane will begin making supersonic flights over select communities to measure residents’ reactions to any noise they might hear.
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Fission Power Systems
15/01/2019On the moon, power generation from sunlight can be very difficult because lunar nights are equivalent to 14 days on Earth.
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Gobbling Up Planetary Debris
14/01/2019X-ray observations from the hot outer atmosphere of a star may be scientist’s first evidence of a star gobbling up planetary debris.
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Space Weather Prediction
11/01/2019NASA scientists have discovered that bright points in the solar atmosphere may give us much more information about changes occurring deep down in the sun.
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Technology for All
10/01/2019Through technology transfer, many NASA inventions become part of our everyday lives.
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Electronics for Hostile Environments
09/01/2019A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center is developing a new electronics technology that could survive more than 520 hours in hostile environments.
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Spinning Habitats
08/01/2019A spinning structure made up of a series of concentric cylinders could help protect the astronauts from radiation.
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Food to Fight Disease
07/01/2019Apparently chewing stimulates the production of Th17 cells in the mouth, which could help fight disease in some parts of the body.
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Food to Fight Disease
07/01/2019Apparently chewing stimulates the production of Th17 cells in the mouth, which could help fight disease in some parts of the body.
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Exoplanet Surveys
04/01/2019Kepler opened up an entirely new field of exoplanet research and now TESS will build on that legacy.
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Changing How Medicine Is Done
03/01/2019NASA’s Vascularized Tissue Centennial Challenge is looking at a critical need in medicine.
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Virtual History
02/01/2019NASA has an incredible amount of available information about the early Apollo missions – information that Immersive VR Education has put to good use in a virtual documentary.
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Extreme Worlds
01/01/2019The ICE project will look at Isolation and Confinement in Extreme environments by observing people who spend several months at the South Pole.