Photo of the Day Are these trees growing on Mars? No. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on melting pinkish sand dunes covered with light frost. The featured image was taken in 2008 April near the North Pole of Mars. At that time, dark sand on the [...]
Gina Orozco, vice president of gas transmission and storage operations at SoCalGas, offers advice for women engineers who want to drive the energy transition. Source
What happens when you don’t have referrals or connections? Akanksha Prasad, a senior chemical engineering scientist, shares how to build your own way forward and develop resilience in the process. Source
As sweeping anti-DEI legislation threatens progress worldwide, LGBTQ+ people in STEM face growing risks and fewer resources. Here’s how the STEM community can step up. Source
Photo of the Day This interstellar skyscape spans over 4 degrees across crowded starfields toward the constellation Sagittarius and the central Milky Way. A First Look image captured at the new NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the bright nebulae and star clusters featured include famous stops on telescopic tours of the cosmos: Messier 8 [...]
Photo of the Day Is there a spiral galaxy in the center of this spiral galaxy? Sort of. Image data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory, and smaller telescopes on planet Earth are combined in this detailed portrait of face-on spiral galaxy Messier 61 (M61) and its bright center. A mere [...]
Photo of the Day How do stars form? Images of the star forming region W5 like those in the infrared by NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, later NEOWISE) satellite provide clear clues with indications that massive stars near the center of empty cavities are older than stars near the edges. A likely [...]
Photo of the Day How were these unusual Martian spherules created? Thousands of unusual gray spherules made of iron and rock and dubbed blueberries were found embedded in and surrounding rocks near the landing site of the robot Opportunity rover on Mars in 2004. To help investigate their origin, Opportunity found a surface dubbed [...]
Learn how Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) is advancing health care innovation by bridging microfluids, automation, and AI. Source
Hear from members of SWE and SWE’s joint member organizations on how supporting each other made this year’s INWED special. Source
