Exploration

A Bold New Chance for Mars Exploration!

Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Ph.D. | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Exploration, BOLD Mars, Nasa Mars, Space Exploration, Mars, Space Exploration Technologies, Mars Exploration, Nasa Space Program, Science News

Certainly, there is no replacement for Earth, and Mars will never be a replacement for Earth. But we do need to move forward, and mission proposals, such as BOLD, will be the first step toward a grand vision.

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Redefining Remote In The Modern Age

Lorie Karnath | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Exploration, Science, Travel, Technology, Remote, Travel News

Each new technological shift or scientific breakthrough offers the potential to readjust and redefine the paradigm of what previously may have been considered inaccessible.

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WATCH: Meeting The New President Of The Explorers Club

Megan Snedden | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Exploration, Travel Writing, Travel, Adventure, Explorers Club, New York City, Travel Blogs, Travel News

"There are a lot of people who are interested in exploration and we want them to participate and we want to support them."

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Art, Honey and Explorations

Misha Lyuve | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Experiential, Conceptual Art, Honey, Exploration, Art, Rosemarie Padovano, Salve, New York Art, Video, Arts News

All the journeys have a secret destination of which the traveler is unaware -- Martin Buber Photo by Rosemarie Padovano, 2006. From Salve series...

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Uncertainty and the Rewards of Discovery

Lorie Karnath | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Science, Exploration, Uncertainty, Risk, Discovery, Impact News

For many, risk is viewed solely as a threat, to be avoided, but to steer clear of risk also means that one eludes the opportunities that risk engenders.

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Exploring 2012 And Questioning Prophesy

Lorie Karnath | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Prophesy, Science, Exploration, Mystery, Explorers, Maya, 2012, Travel News

Exploration requires the willingness to venture not only beyond recognized boundaries, but beyond pre-conceived notions or established convention.

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Heroic Exploration: Well and Truly Dead?

Seth Shostak | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Exploration, Asteroids, Mining, Space Exploration, Challenger, Asteroid, Technology News

is it all over? Is heroic exploration now only past tense? Possibly. But I suspect that the banality of a world lacking in secrets -- a globe whose every acre can be perused with the click of a mouse -- is only a temporary setback.

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Finding The Persian Gulf's Only Synagogue

Adam Valen Levinson | Posted 02.05.2012

It didn't take long for me to realize I had no idea where I was walking. After a few blocks, the bustling lights of the central shopping district gave way to construction and inauspicious quiet. I figured I'd ask around.

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Technology Changing Exploration's Paradigm

Lorie Karnath | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Science, Exploration, Technology, Travel, Discovery, Technology News

Exploration and technology have often enjoyed something of a symbiotic relationship. At times it has actually been exploration which has led to or enabled a number of the new tools that were developed as a consequence of discovery.

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We Are All Scientists

Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: Observation, Exploration, Science, Theory, Scientific Literacy, Skepticism, Talk Nerdy to Me, Nature, Education News

I have no expectation that every man, woman, and child should strive to become a professional scientist. But I do have every expectation that every man, woman, and child should strive to become more scientifically literate.

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VIDEO: Columbus As Explorer And World-Class Jerk

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Exploration, Laurence Bergreen, Video, Christopher Columbus, Columbs: The Four Voyages, Books, Columbus Day, Explorer, Travel Tv, Travel News

Christopher Columbus's life is proof that the process of discovery doesn't begin or end with landfall. Columbus didn't go looking for a new world and,...

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Life at the SETI Institute: Mars Detective -- Investigating the Red Planet for ancient life

SETI Institute | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Exploration, Chemistry, SETI Institute, Planets, Nasa, Space, Scientist, Science, Mars, Cosmos, Universe, Technology News

By Dr. Richard Quinn; Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, and Gail Jacobs ...

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The Forgotten Heroes Of The Himalayas

Elia Saikaly | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Exploration, Himalayas, Adversity, Adventure, Sherpas, Mountaineering, Mountain Climbing, Nepal, International Destinations, Asia Travel, Trekking, Climbing, Destinations, Mount Everest, Canada News

Since Mt. Everest was first successfully climbed in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay from the South side in Nepal, it's become ever so co...

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Neighborhood Bulling in Turkey -- Cyprus Conflict

Haggai Carmon | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Erdogan, Exploration, Turkey, Gas, Conflict, Oil, Cyprus, Noble Engergy, Israel, Kktc, World News

Turkish EU Minister Egemen Bağış has threatened that if the Republic of Cyprus enters claimed Turkish terrestrial waters during their oil exploration efforts in the Mediterranean, Turkey will not hesitate to deploy war ships.

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Space History in DC: White Roses for Explorers, Part 1

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 10.07.2011

Read More: Exploration, Arlington National Cemetery, History, Nasa, Internship, Independence Day, Challenger, Astronauts, Polar Exploration, College News

I wanted to find the graves of some of the astronauts who are buried at Arlington and pay my respects.

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Exploring the Explorers Club

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Exploration, New York State Travel, Adventure, Space Exploration, Adventure Travel, Explorer's Club, New York City Travel, Travel Video, Moon, Travel Tv, New York, Teddy Roosevelt, Video, Travel News

The "Members Only" sign sits on the steps between the second and third floor, which has all the aging pomp of the best private clubs and a few convers...

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Sending Humans to Mars: Part I

Reid Stowe & Soanya Ahmad | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Space Psychology, Exploration, Reid Stowe, Longest Sea Voyage in History, Space, Space Environments, Space Analog, Mars Ocean Odyssey, 1000 Days Non-Stop at Sea, Travel News

As I sail on at sea for 1045 days continuously, I am reminded always of how I am on my own homemade spaceship, isolated as I cross the universe. My pl...

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America's First Woman Space-Walker Remembers Shuttle Rides

James M. Clash | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Adventure, Great Wall of China, Iss, Jim Clash, Discovery, Space Walk, Apollo, Exploration, Weightlessness, Gemini, Challenger, Soyuz, Noaa, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Women, Science, Skylab, Last Shuttle Flight Atlantis, Astronaut, Mars, Moon, Travel News

"This business consists of riding bombs. And if you do absolutely everything right, you can marshal the energy to do something astonishing like put yourself into orbit. If you do even a few things wrong, it's going to act like a bomb."

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The Green Runners

Reid Stowe & Soanya Ahmad | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Exploration, Spiritual Sailing, Consciousness, Space Exploration, Endurance, Sailing, Space Analog, Reid Stowe, 1000 Days Non-Stop at Sea, Soanya Ahmad, Travel News

Where would the plant of humanity grow without vision and spiritual explorers who roam and make pilgrimages to sacred heights and return to share the mysteries of life?

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From Vacation to Vocation

Adele Scheele | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Exploration, Career Advice, Careers, Vacation, Summer Vacation, Business News

If you lie on a beach, you'll come back with a tan guaranteed to fade. But use your vacation to learn something new, and you could change your life. ...

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Commencement

Tamsin Smith | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: John Hunter, Exploration, Cats, Commencement Speeches, Career Advice, T.S. Elliot, World Peace, Curiosity, Education News

Graduation season is upon us. Time to consider the texture and trajectory of our days. Time to talk story. Here is one chapter.

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Transparency Or Transparently Corrupt: What Kind Of Government Do We Want?

Cliff Schecter | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Taxpayers for Common Sense, Congress, Aan, New York, Ryan Alexander, paymentaccuracy.gov, Ibm, Olympics, Norm Coleman, Cliff Schecter, City Forward, Democracy, recovery.gov, Winston Churhill, Stimulus, Lobbyist, Exploration, Government, Transparency, Apps.gov, Onvia, data.gov, recovery.org, USAspending.Gov, The Sunlight Foundation, Chicago, The Obama Administration, San Francisco, Technology News

I had a client a few years back named Onvia. Onvia provided better and more timely information than the federal government, regarding where stimulus d...

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Exploring the Deep Ocean -- Emory Kristof's Pioneering Photography (VIDEO)

Steven Crandell | Posted 06.21.2011

National Geographic photographer Emory Kristof loves to do deep things no one else has done before.

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Life at the SETI Institute: Jon Jenkins -- Turning Pixels Into Planets

SETI Institute | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Exploration, SETI Institute, Planets, Nasa, Medical Research, Astronomy, Discovery, Astrobiology, Exoplanets, Cosmos, Kepler, Universe, Technology News

After a starquake, says NASA's Dr. Jon Jenkins, "stars actually change their shape. This shape change causes an apparent change in brightness. As we study the brightness variations in time, we can essentially hear the songs of the stars."

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The Role of Government in a New American Space Agenda

Rick Tumlinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Although it was government that led the first wave over the barricades of gravity, it is now the people who are taking on the work, and all hands are needed.

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