Megan Nichols

5 Tips to Stay Active and Motivated This Winter

When the winter temperatures roll in, it’s human nature to want to cozy up indoors and nap until spring comes. But if you do, you’re going to face an uphill battle getting back into shape for summer. Instead of entirely abandoning your routine until the earth thaws, try mixing it up to stay motivated even ...

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A cabin in a forest in the winter.

Sustainable Actions You Might Not Think to Make While Traveling

Traveling, especially traveling worldwide, is an amazing way to widen your perspective on life. However, traveling can make it hard to remain as environmentally conscious as you usually are at home. That doesn’t have to mean you give up entirely, though. There are a lot of things you can do while traveling that are excellent ...

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A suspension bridge in a rainforest.

Promising Reasons Why LEO Satellites Are the Next Big Thing

When it comes to launching satellites designed to orbit the Earth, there are three potential destinations. These orbits, dubbed low, medium, and geosynchronous Earth orbits, or LEO (low Earth orbit), MEO (middle Earth orbit), and GEO (geosynchronous equatorial orbit), respectively, all exist within a specific height window above the planet’s surface. What is the difference ...

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NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite being placed in orbit.

How to Conduct Preventive Maintenance for EVs

Electric vehicles (EVs) are taking the world by storm. These news EVs are something of an enigma for drivers used to more traditional internal combustion engines. Gone are the days of checking engine oil levels or heading to the Jiffy Lube when the car needs a tuneup. Hi-tech vehicles require a more hi-tech approach. Parts ...

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A Tesla charging station.

How to Approach Big Data: A Beginner’s Guide

There’s a new resource floating around the business community that you’ve never heard of but could make your life a lot easier. More and more corporations are taking advantage of big data. Big data is defined fairly easily — they’re sets of information that are complicated and quite large. Usually, big data is so complex ...

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Big data.

Why Is There Pink Ice in the Alps?

When we think of ice, most of us picture one of three things, but one of them is probably not pink ice. You might think of the clear chunks of frozen water floating in your drink. You could imagine massive glaciers and icebergs with their brilliant whites and blues. You may curse the black ice ...

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Pink ice in the Alps.

What Is Bioprocessing?

Bioprocessing is a term we don’t often use. When we think of the term “processing” in an industrial setting, we generally picture massive machines creating inanimate objects. In manufacturing, processing can include anything from creating the circuit board that makes your smartphone function to turning raw petroleum products into the thousands of different plastic items ...

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Bioprocessing reactors.

Ocean Freight Is Increasing in Popularity for Pharmaceuticals

Transporting cold-chain products of any kind is a challenging and risky business. For cold-chain pharmaceuticals, however, the risk is much higher. Failure to store and handle the products correctly risks contaminating the drugs, which may then pose a danger to potential patients. Failure to promptly deliver limited supplies may also result in severe harm or ...

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A container ship.

What Are the Benefits of High-Speed Rail?

In many countries around the world, public transportation systems and infrastructure include a variety of opportunities. In addition to planes and automobiles, there is a high-speed rail that covers long distances in a relatively short time. High-speed rail offers a plethora of benefits, in addition to providing another travel opportunity to local citizens. Unfortunately, the ...

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High-speed rail trains.

How Will the Hyperloop Change Travel?

In August of 2013, Elon Musk published a white paper detailing a new type of transportation — the Hyperloop, a high-speed rail designed for high-traffic cities paired less than 900 miles apart. Musk made the research public so others could turn his idea into a reality. A Los Angeles-based startup — Hyperloop One — is ...

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Hyperloop travel capsules.