Humans could escape from black holes, rather than getting stuck in them, according to a new theory proposed by Stephen Hawking. Unfortunate space travellers won’t be able to return to their own universe, according to Hawking. But they will be able to escape somewhere else, he has proposed at a conference in Stockholm. Black holes…

From RESET Electronics/Acoustic Volunteer Rich Repplier: In the 1980s I was working for an audio company. One Saturday a speaker manufacturer came to our parking lot and set up a large speaker array like the ones used in rock and roll concerts. The speakers were driven with 10,000 watts of audio. The system used so…

After 17 years, our early summer chorus will include an incredible specialist ensemble: Brood X Cicadas! Pronounced as Brood “ten”, these cicadas were last seen in 2004, when some of RESET’s members were as young as 2nd graders! Indeed, special class time was taken to observe these wonderfully curious and bright-eyed insects molting and singing…

When Oscar Wiygul volunteers at Clopper Mill Elementary school in Gaithersburg, he believes he is filling a void that was missing in his own childhood. “If I had found science more relatable when I was a kid, I think I would have become more engaged much earlier. The Neil DeGrasse Tysons and Carl Sagans of…

Wayne’e report on his fifth grade program: Late in February I finished my 12th one-hour session at Key Elementary School, working with all the 5th grade students (~95) on Longitudinal Waves and Patterns of Sound Waves. The highlight was students seeing and in some cases making Chladni Patterns on square aluminum plates by stroking them…

Field Trip Report from RESET Program Specialist Shaheen Khurana With the school year drawing to a close, students from J.G Whittier school, along with their RESET volunteer Mike Goldstein, set out on a field trip to see “DREAM BIG: Engineering the World,” a giant-screen film about engineering showing at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater at…