NWA Space, a nonprofit organization, is currently raising money to be able to build a science center for Northwest Arkansas. The proposed center will include a 150-seat planetarium, observatory, hands-on labs and permanent science exhibits. As NWA Space outlines on…
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Tech 20 Spotlight: Going to Extremes — Matt Francis, Ozark Integrated Circuits
by Todd Traubby Todd TraubThere is the space race in which companies and governments are trying to be first to put people and cutting-edge technologies into space, and then there is the space race going on in Matt Francis’ home. Francis, founder of Fayetteville-based…
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ARCOM Student Chosen for Prestigious NASA Internship
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffYevgeniy Zhivotovskiy, a fourth-year medical student at the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine (ARCOM), has been chosen to intern with NASA at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas. The internship, scheduled to commence in April 2024…
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ICYMI: Russellville to Host NASA’s 2024 Eclipse Live Stream
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffThe much-anticipated 2024 total eclipse is fast approaching, and NASA’s planned live broadcast of the celestial event will be hosted from none other than the city of Russellville. A team of NASA experts from the Marshall Space Flight Center in…
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L3Harris Technologies to Purchase Aerojet Rocketdyne
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffL3Harris Technologies, a technology and defense contractor, has been informed that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will not block its $4.7 billion deal to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne, an aerospace and defense contractor that has a facility in Camden, Reuters…
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Canoo Delivers Crew Transportation Vehicles to NASA
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffCanoo, an electric vehicle producer, revealed that it has delivered three Crew Transportation Vehicles (CTVs) to be used at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where they will transport astronauts to the launch pad for the Artemis lunar missions. “We…
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Kirby, Brockwell Student Teams Win NASA TechRise Student Challenge
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffIt has been announced that Kirby and Brockwell student teams from Kirby High School and Izard County Consolidated are the winners of the NASA TechRise Student Challenge, a national contest by NASA. NASA TechRise Student Challenge is a STEM competition…
NASA recently got its closest look at Europa, the Jovian moon that scientists believe hides an ocean of liquid water under its icy crust and has a thin atmosphere of mostly oxygen. The smart guys in lab coats speculate that…
What Earthly Carbon-Based Nanomaterials Can Do for Intergalactic Farming For the next 50 years, the world’s farmers will have to feed more people than ever. Global population has risen to approximately 7 billion, leaving only 1.7 acres of agricultural…
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UAMS’ Nemec-Bakk Awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship for Space Health Research
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffAshley Nemec-Bakk, Ph.D., is one of three researchers nationwide to receive a postdoctoral fellowship from the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine. Nemec-Bakk is a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Arkansas for Medical…