How I Built My STEM Career Without a Network
What happens when you don’t have referrals or connections? Akanksha Prasad, a senior chemical engineering scientist, shares how to build your own way forward and develop resilience in the process. Source
LGBTQ+ Students and Professionals Need Community Now More Than Ever
As sweeping anti-DEI legislation threatens progress worldwide, LGBTQ+ people in STEM face growing risks and fewer resources. Here’s how the STEM community can step up. Source
Rubin’s First Look: A Sagittarius Skyscape
Photo of the Day This interstellar skyscape spans over 4 degrees across crowded starfields toward the constellation Sagittarius and the central Milky Way. A First Look image captured at the new NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the bright nebulae and star clusters featured include famous stops on telescopic tours of the cosmos: Messier 8 [...]
In the Center of Spiral Galaxy M61
Photo of the Day Is there a spiral galaxy in the center of this spiral galaxy? Sort of. Image data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory, and smaller telescopes on planet Earth are combined in this detailed portrait of face-on spiral galaxy Messier 61 (M61) and its bright center. A mere [...]
W5: Pillars of Star Formation
Photo of the Day How do stars form? Images of the star forming region W5 like those in the infrared by NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, later NEOWISE) satellite provide clear clues with indications that massive stars near the center of empty cavities are older than stars near the edges. A likely [...]
A Berry Bowl of Martian Spherules
Photo of the Day How were these unusual Martian spherules created? Thousands of unusual gray spherules made of iron and rock and dubbed blueberries were found embedded in and surrounding rocks near the landing site of the robot Opportunity rover on Mars in 2004. To help investigate their origin, Opportunity found a surface dubbed [...]
AI in Health Care: An Interview With Dr. Xueying Zhao, SWE Member & Medical Device Engineer
Learn how Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) is advancing health care innovation by bridging microfluids, automation, and AI. Source
Celebrating Community and Collaboration on International Women in Engineering Day
Hear from members of SWE and SWE’s joint member organizations on how supporting each other made this year’s INWED special. Source
NGC 3521: Galaxy in a Bubble
Photo of the Day Gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 3521 is a mere 35 million light-years away, toward the northern springtime constellation Leo. Relatively bright in planet Earth's sky, NGC 3521 is easily visible in small telescopes but often overlooked by amateur imagers in favor of other Leo spiral galaxies, like M66 and M65. It's [...]
Space Station Silhouette on the Moon
Photo of the Day What's that unusual spot on the Moon? It's the International Space Station. Using precise timing, the Earth-orbiting space platform was photographed in front of a partially lit gibbous Moon in 2019. The featured image was taken from Palo Alto, California, USA with an exposure time of only 1/667 of a [...]