Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, the education system faced a seismic shift. Learning loss, especially in foundational literacy, was a national crisis.In 2024, only 31% of fourth graders in the ...

A new lightsail design with nanoscale thickness could help lay the path for interstellar travel at speeds around one-fifth the speed of light. Norte lab, TU Delft/Bessa lab, Brown University Developed ...

The idea of a lightsail comes from the fact that radiation pressure represents a mechanical pressure acting on a surface due to the exchange of momentum between it and an electromagnetic field. Since ...

LightSail is a digital reading platform that promotes, progresses, and assesses student learning. This uses e-books specifically, so it can work across a host of devices for maximum accessibility for ...

A lightsail is a large reflective surface deployed in front of a spacecraft, where it can harness either sunlight or light from an Earth-based laser to continually accelerate the vehicle. In theory, ...

Ignite! Learning is a startup that offers virtual one-one-one tutoring for kids to advance their reading level, and the team just raised $10 million.

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LightSail 2 just burned up in the atmosphere after a three-year mission. ... Let’s all do a dramatic reading of Trump and Musk’s mean posts. Elizabeth Lopatto Jun 5.

The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 launched in June 2019 and unfurled its 344-square-foot (32-square-meter) solar sail a month later. Just two weeks after spreading its wings, LightSail 2 ...