• This high school aviation program aims to stave off the pilot shortage

    This high school aviation program aims to stave off the pilot shortage

    Dec 08, 2018 12:11 AM EDT

    Classes offered to ninth grade students involve a mix of theory and hands-on projects, which include making hot air balloons, setting off rockets, and building cardboard wind tunnels -- something the Wright Brothers used in their own flight experiments in the early 1900s. The AOPA’s curriculum will be completed ...

  • Will artificial intelligence help us solve every problem?

    Will artificial intelligence help us solve every problem?

    May 25, 2017 11:45 PM EDT

    ... most of my professor colleagues told me it's impossible and I'm wasting my time and possibly my career. When you look at the Wright brothers, 100 years ago, the world's experts had come together and concluded that it's impossible, there will not be such a thing ...

  • Trump's Boeing speech shows differences with Obama

    Trump's Boeing speech shows differences with Obama

    Feb 17, 2017 10:50 PM EDT

    ... said. "We're going to fight for every last American job." He proudly referenced the evolution of airplanes as proof of U.S. competitiveness. The Wright brothers invented a small wooden plane that first flew in 1903, Trump said, a far cry from the use of carbon fiber in the ...

  • The amazing, complicated science of the Nobel winners explained

    The amazing, complicated science of the Nobel winners explained

    Oct 05, 2016 11:17 PM EDT

    ... you engage with, and that is part of their insight. And, you know, basically, the researchers are saying that we're kind of like the Wright Brothers at this point. We built a flying machine, but how could you possibly have conceived of the 747 at the time that occurred ...

  • World's tiniest machines win 2016 Nobel Chemistry Prize for three researchers

    World's tiniest machines win 2016 Nobel Chemistry Prize for three researchers

    Oct 05, 2016 10:15 AM EDT

    ... to tell how these discoveries might influence everyday life, Faringa isn’t too worried about the ultimate outcome. “I feel a little bit like the Wright Brothers, who were flying 100 years ago for the first time,” Faringa said during a phone call during the Nobel presentation announcement. “[Back] then ...

  • Teen scientist’s revolutionary speech device could grant language to the voiceless

    Teen scientist’s revolutionary speech device could grant language to the voiceless

    Jun 22, 2016 11:12 PM EDT

    ... typical user a Parkinson's patient, for instance, couldn't muster. Nonetheless, he sees potential. BENJAMIN MUNSON: It's extremely clever. He's marketing the Wright brothers' plane as the Concorde or something. But the fact is that we live in a day and age where you can see in ...

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    FULL SPEECH: President Obama's 2016 State of the Union Address

    Jan 13, 2016 02:25 AM EDT

    ... overnight, and twelve years later, we were walking on the moon. That spirit of discovery is in our DNA. We’re Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers and George Washington Carver. We’re Grace Hopper and Katherine Johnson and Sally Ride. We’re every immigrant and entrepreneur from Boston to ...

  • Why we crave what’s cool

    Why we crave what’s cool

    Sep 11, 2015 01:03 AM EDT

    ... worlds with that car. PAUL SOLMAN: Owning a Tesla says, I'm a well-heeled environmentalist, a Volvo, I care about safety. ACTOR: Were the Wright brothers insane? Bill gates, Les Paul, Ali. STEVE QUARTZ: Cadillac last year had an ad campaign where they made sure people recognize the car ...

  • 8 things you didn't know about Orville Wright

    8 things you didn't know about Orville Wright

    Aug 20, 2015 12:29 PM EDT

    ... take a deeper look at his personal life, as provided by the historian David McCullough and his 2015 biography of America’s aviation heroes, The Wright Brothers. 1. Orville was a thrifty hipster In modern-day Portland or Brooklyn, New York, Orville Wright would have fit right in. Aside from ...

  • Paralyzed man walks after transplanted cells repair his spine

    Paralyzed man walks after transplanted cells repair his spine

    Oct 21, 2014 11:35 PM EDT

    A Bulgarian man who was paralyzed from the chest down after a 2010 stabbing can now walk after a pioneering transplant in Poland. Cells from the man’s nose were used to repair his spinal nerves in a surgery that gives thousands of paralytics new hope for movement. Alex Thompson of Independent Television News has the...