When they first met in 2007, Ted Southern and Nik Moiseev came from two very different worlds. They didn't imagine they'd eventually be in business designing space couture in a modest studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yards.
I once saw a UFO. It was a fairly standard experience.
To sonify is to make beauty available to our human senses through sound. And, through the work of artist and NASA fellow Robert Alexander, it's also a means to discovery.
Anyone with enough brains and balls can build their own rocket and fly it to space. Or at least that’s what Copenhagen Suborbitals wants to prove.
In the early 1930s, physicist Karl Jansky published "stunning results":http://cosmology.carnegiescience.edu/timeline/1964/karl-janskys-radio-antenna of a study in which he detected radio waves emanating from the center of the Milky Way. Jansky's work…
Over the past two weeks, "our _Spaced Out_ episode":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/9/4/motherboard-tv-meet-the-guy-who-hunts-space-bears-in-rural-virginia about the naturalist Mike Shaw and his love for "tardigrades":http://serc.carleton.edu/microb…
_Episode 5 of our space show, Spaced Out. See other episodes "in the video room":http://motherboard.vice.com/video/series/spaced-out_ Mike Shaw is a quiet, unassuming man in love with the wilderness. He also knows far more about tardigrades then a…
In July, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it was killing its funding for the Aquarius Reef Base, which, located off the coast of Key Largo, Florida, is the only sea lab of its kind in the world. Even during a science fund…
h4. A new episode of "Spaced Out":http://motherboard.vice.com/video/series/spaced-out, Motherboard's YouTube space show.The possibility that Earth will be hit by an asteroid in our lifetime isn't "huge":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/5/17/nasa-s-mo…
Nicholas Forker is a maestro of the ballpoint pen. One day I was walking by the half-way open door of his art studio in Bushwick and noticed astronauts on the wall. Drawings and ink paintings of astronauts in a variety of mundane positions – sitting…
