Innovation Now

By WHRO Public MediaTechnology

Innovation Now episodes

July 25, 2023 Racing Maladies
Working with NASA, racing engineers adapted a space technology to create a filter that provides drivers with fresh clean air.
2 min
July 24, 2023 Ideas for the Future
NIAC seeks innovators from diverse and non-traditional sources, people with far-reaching ideas for the future.
2 min
July 21, 2023 Mapping for the Moon
This mobile scanner uses a laser light detection and ranging system to provide millions of measurement points per second that can help map uncharted areas.
2 min
July 20, 2023 A Path to Safety
LIDAR could be used to create maps of vegetation and surface roughness to help firefighters find the easiest path to safety when fighting wildfires.
2 min
July 19, 2023 Safety Issues
Helicopter ambulance, law enforcement, and search and rescue operators utilize night vision goggles to reduce flying risks.
2 min
July 18, 2023 Soliton Waves
A constellation of CubeSats could be used to map small orbital debris by detecting plasma solitons to mitigate on-orbit collisions.
2 min
July 17, 2023 A Volatile History
Volcanic activity, lasting thousands of centuries and erupting massive amounts of material may have helped transform Venus.
2 min
July 14, 2023 A Flight into the Future
On July 14, 1914, Robert Goddard, a Massachusetts physics professor, registered his first two patents describing a multi-stage rocket and a rocket fueled by liquid propellants.
2 min
July 13, 2023 JunoCam
A special instrument aboard the spacecraft Juno was included specifically for citizen scientists.
2 min
July 12, 2023 Lagrange Points
Webb is the world’s first space deployable telescope. But in order for the telescope to do its remarkable work, it had to be sent to a specific location in space.
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…