Innovation Now

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Innovation Now episodes

July 20, 2017 Preparing for the Moon
Recent drop tests for the Orion capsule, prove that this historic landmark still plays an important role in space exploration.
2 min
July 19, 2017 Lessons from Viking
Viking discoveries go on and on. And 40 years later, Viking is still a mission to celebrate.
2 min
July 18, 2017 Smart Manufacturing
Synthetic biology could be used to enable a smart manufacturing tool that would use the Martian atmosphere to tailor printable electronics.
2 min
July 17, 2017 Tensegrity Robots
A team from Texas A and M hopes to re-invent robotics with a tensegrity habitat that could be built in space.
2 min
July 14, 2017 Disposable Drones
Expendable and biodegradable – these high tech paper planes may just be the future of drone delivery.
2 min
July 13, 2017 Beacons in Space
The SEXTANT/NICER mission will provide autonomous navigation capabilities a large distance away from Earth using x-ray emitting stars as beacons.
2 min
July 12, 2017 Eyes toward Space
Once the country’s goal became putting a man in space, many from this Pilotless Division would transition to a newly formed Space Task Group.
2 min
July 11, 2017 Turbo Charged Telescope
Who’s got the sharpest eye? We’ll see what happens when you turbo-charge a ground-based telescope with Adaptive Optics.
2 min
July 10, 2017 Exposing Solar Events
By working backwards, a group of scientists from NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, have detected an early signature of certain energetic particles.
2 min
July 07, 2017 Power You Can Swallow
Researchers at MIT are turning a science fair demonstration into a high tech innovation by using stomach acid to power a new type of ingestible battery.
2 min

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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…