NASA’s public competitions can catalyze big changes – not just for the agency but also for participants. Bronco Space, the CubeSat laboratory at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California, matured more than just space technology as a result of winning funds from NASA’s TechLeap Prize competition. It grew from its roots in a broom closet to a newly...
Slammed by borders closures in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as by increased scrutiny by authorities, Chinese crime syndicates posing as investors shifted their operations from illicit gambling houses to online cybercrime fraud. The strategy has proven to be phenomenally successful. Four years later, the syndicates continue to take advantage of chaos and...
She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph moved to the United States with his mother when he was only 7 years old. Bidding farewell to his sisters, father, and grandmother, Sheyaa arrived in the U.S. under a temporary work visa. Exiting the door of the Hartsfield-Jackson airport that day he could have felt despondent or tearful thinking of the family and friends he had...