Innovation Now

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Innovation Now episodes

October 16, 2018 Role Models for Girls
Perhaps through play, generations of girls will dream even bigger than those who came before them.
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October 15, 2018 Electric Blue Clouds
For five days, the balloon floated through the stratosphere giving scientists their first 3-D look at these electric blue clouds.
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October 12, 2018 Virtual Engineering
What if teams from across the country could work on the same task at the same time – all without leaving their desks.
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October 11, 2018 Worldview
This web-based application utilizes an easy-to-use map interface and nearly two decades of images collected by NASA’s Earth observing satellites.
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October 10, 2018 Fire Safety Sensors
These NASA sensors can be networked together to monitor large aerosol clouds or used as a wearable monitor for miners or first responders to manage their exposure to hazardous conditions.
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October 09, 2018 Crystalline Growth
Using a scanning electron microscope, researchers from NASA and Florida State University will examine every aspect of crystalline growth on the International Space Station.
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October 08, 2018 Through Air and Water
When Speedo needed to test their new space-age swimsuit, they turned to the experts at NASA Langley who had been reducing drag on aircraft for decades.
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October 05, 2018 Tracking Florida Red Tides
Under normal conditions, water quality tests find a few hundred of these cells per liter. But samples this summer contain more than one million of the phytoplankton cells.
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October 04, 2018 NASA Vascular Tissue Challenge
One of NASA’s current Centennial Challenges looks at a critical need in medicine as teams try to create vascularized tissue in the lab.
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October 03, 2018 A Celestial Monument
After 11 years of extraordinary planetary science and unprecedented engineering feats, NASA’s Dawn mission is coming to an end.
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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…