By Jane Berg The first photo taken from space was captured by a rocket-borne camera launched from New Mexico in October 1946. It showed a grainy black-and-white image with clouds and a sharp horizontal line where the atmosphere ended and outer…
By Jane Berg When BAERI’s Courtney Batterson was a child growing up in Minnesota, she was fascinated by storms — not only the tornados for which the Midwest is known — but also the very sudden and aggressive thunderstorms that…
By Rachel Sender Extreme and unpredictable weather patterns are quickly becoming the new normal—intense heat, flooding, tornadoes, and wildfires have become almost old news as Earth’s climate changes rapidly. To continue moving forward as a species, we will need to…
In this special episode of our podcast For the Love of Science, we hear the story of BAERI’s founding from the founders themselves: Robert Bergstrom and Sharon Sittloh. Listen here or on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or Google Podcasts. Robert…
By Rachel Sender The Quantum Chemistry Laboratory at the NASA Ames Research Center is not a typical chemistry lab — there are no glass vials brimming with colorful chemicals, bubbling together in thrilling experimentation. Rather, this lab is a cluster of…