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Happy Sunday! Groovy Space Flower via NASA's Astronaut Scott Kelly on the International Space Station. #YearInSpace #ISS #SpaceFlower #SpaceStation

Beautiful, Intimate Portraits of Bees -- National Geographic

Researchers take advantage of photography technology developed by the U.S. Army to capture beautiful portraits of bees native to North America.

Superheroes are STEMists

Smart scientists make great superheroes! Who are some of your favorite superheroes?

What's better than wishing upon a star? Why not wish upon seven stars! Catch a glimpse of the infamous Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades cluster, as well as Neptune and Jupiter sightings all this week! http://bit.ly/1c9Onf0

Here Are The Front Runners To Win A Science Nobel Prize This Year Thompson Reuters and Web of Science have announced their predictions for this year's nobel prize winners in chemistry, physics, and physiology and medicine. http://read.bi/19eRYtP

Three important anniversaries yesterday, today, and tomorrow, all linked and related: satellite and rocket.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the launch of the first V-2 rocket, October 3, 1942.

A young Wernher von Braun had been working on rockets for almost twenty years prior to the...

🍂 Crisp cool weather, spice-scented rooms, and fun fall-related #STEMactivities are a sure sign of #autumn. Here's a Lesson in The #MetricSystem 📐 On The Groovy Blog: https://www.groovylabinabox.com/5-groovy-fall-related-stem-projects/ 🍂 #autumnvibes #pumpkin #autumncolors #pumpkinspice #autumnleaves #autumncolors #pumpkins #pumpkinspice #pumpkinpatch https://www.instagram.com/p/B2w61iJhrNC/?igshid=efoa3x4wymzg

View launch WEBCAST: Countdown to First Virginia Coast Launch of LADEE to the Moon Webcast: http://bit.ly/1dDZEpv NASA is making final preparations to launch a Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) at 11:27 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 6, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. Follow LADEE's latest news at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility: http://1.usa.gov/1dDZQVG

Celebrate #EngineersWeek2016: #TBT Hedy Lamarr is famous as a glamorous movie star from the black-and-white era of film. But what most people don't know about her is that, in 1942, she co-invented a device that helped make possible the development of GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi technology! Born in Austria in 1914, the mathematically talented Lamarr moved to the US in 1937 to start a #Hollywood career. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, she was considered one of cinema's leading ladies and made numerous films; however, her passion for engineering is far less known today. Her interest in inventing was such that she set up an #engineering room in her house complete with a drafting table and wall of engineering reference books. With the outbreak of World War II, Lamarr wanted to apply her skills to helping the war effort and, motivated by reports of German U-boats sinking ships in the Atlantic, she began investigating ways to improve torpedo technology. After Lamar met composer George Antheil, who had been experimenting with automated control of #musical instruments, together they hit on the idea of "frequency hopping." At the time, radio-controlled torpedoes could easily be detected and jammed by broadcasting interference at the frequency of the control signal, thereby causing the #torpedo to go off course. Lamarr and Antheil were granted a patent for their invention on August 11, 1942, but the US #Navy wasn't interested in applying their groundbreaking technology until twenty years later when it was used on #military ships during a blockade of Cuba in 1962. Lamarr and Antheil's frequency-hopping concept serves as a basis for the spread-spectrum communication #technology used in #GPS, #WiFi and #Bluetooth devices. Unfortunately, Lamarr's part in its development has been largely overlooked and her efforts weren't recognized until 1997, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave her an award for her technological contributions. Hedy Lamarr passed away in 2000 at the age of 85 and, in 2014, she was at long last inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her invention of a "Secret Communication System" many years ago. Text credit: A Mighty Girl #HedyLamarr