Big news: evidence that there’s liquid water on Mars “right now” https://www.vox.com/2015/4/13/8384337/mars-water-liquid-curiosity    

I always learn new things and get more inspiration from ReSET Panels of Volunteers and Educators, and the thought-provoking follow-up discussions. Before the new school year starts, it is well worth your time check out the video of the June 21 panel (with volunteers Peter Mehrevari, Juan Valentin, Ed Rock and ReSET Board member John…

David has blogged a number of times on his RESET experience.  Here’s the first one: So Tuesday I emailed someone at ReSET asking to talk with them about what they do and if they’d need someone like myself.  The director responded asking if I’d like to meet at a school on Wednesday at noon.  I was nervous…

It’s Pay It Forward Time . . .  By Charles Cisneros   A former aerospace engineer, I worked for 33 years as an Air Force officer and 13 years for SAIC as a system test planner for the National Missile defense program. I retired in 2009. I had done other kinds of volunteer work over the…

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…

ReSET Volunteer Bob Hauptman reports on his program this term: I want to tell you of my wonderful experience teaching science to kindergarden children.  First, you should know that it would not have been possible without the participation of two great people – Nsombi Brown, the Georgian Forest science teacher, and Harold Williams, the planetarium…