Meet the Man Who Escaped the Soviet Bloc in a Homemade Plane
The dusty desert of Lucin, Utah, isn't for everyone. It's lonely, windy and hot. But for Ivo Zdarsky, it's home. The inventor, who in 1984 escaped...
The dusty desert of Lucin, Utah, isn't for everyone. It's lonely, windy and hot. But for Ivo Zdarsky, it's home. The inventor, who in 1984 escaped...
Tim Doucette is legally blind, yet he sees the stars better than most people. A childhood diagnosis of congenital cataracts forced doctors to remove...
NASA astronauts deal with many dangers in space: deadly debris, harmful cosmic rays and corned beef sandwiches. Wait, what was that last one? Oh yeah,...
Planetary scientist Constantine Tsang is trying to answer the great mystery of the universe: where did we come from? To do so, Tsang and his...
In the 1660's, German alchemist Hennig Brand thought he knew the secret to making solid gold: pee. So set was he on these golden ambitions, he...
Brett Feldman chose an unlikely route in medicine—serving his city's homeless population. The concept of Feldman's street medicine program comes f...
When Conrad Miller turned in his motorcycle for a radio-controlled drone, he felt he was making an even trade. What started as an outlet for his...
What if there was a way to explore historic monuments long after natural disasters or human aggression have wiped them from the map? Scott Lee and his...
Igor Pasternak has always dreamed BIG. He came to the United States in the mid-1990s with a suitcase full of technical books and a quest: to make...
Frank Kovac always loved the stars. Not satisfied with simply watching the night sky, he built the world's largest mechanically-operated planetarium...
Fun fact of the day: "Iron Man," "Star Trek" and even "Batman vs. Superman" have plenty of real science behind them (no, really!). We tracked down the...
Melissa McCracken thought everyone associated colors with music the same way she did. But she soon realized that her senses were unique. The Kansas...