NASA rockets study why tech goes haywire near poles

Phys.org  November 26, 2019 Most of Earth is shielded from the solar wind but right near the poles the magnetic field becomes a funnel, known as cusp, where the solar wind can get all the way down to the atmosphere disrupting satellites and radio and GPS signals. Beginning Nov. 25, 2019, three new NASA-supported missions will launch into the northern polar cusp, aiming to improve the technology affected by it. The three missions are all part of the Grand Challenge Initiative. Cusp is a series of nine sounding rocket missions exploring the polar cusp capturing the strange phenomena inside the […]

Ten big global challenges technology could solve

MIT Technology Review  February 27, 2019 According to the editors of MIT Technology Review the following 10 challenges are incredibly important but none is easy: Carbon sequestration, Grid-scale energy storage, Universal flu vaccine, Dementia treatment, Ocean clean-up, Energy-efficient desalination, Safe driverless car, Embodied AI, Earthquake prediction and Brain decoding…read more.