By Alex Mellen | Echo After several delays, Taylor's nanosatellite TSAT successfully launched April 18 and is now transmitting data to Earth. A SpaceX rocket carried the Dragon craft and was NASA's fourth attempt for this mission. TSAT is now zipping along in orbit at almost five miles per second, circling ...
Alex Mellen | Echo A sunny day at Gudakunst Field on Tuesday couldn't warm up the Taylor softball team. The Trojans lost both games of their home doubleheader against Mount Vernon Nazarene University (MVNU) 5-1 and 6-5. Their record now stands at 20-8 in the Crossroads League and 34-13 overall. "It ...
By Alex Mellen | Echo Guitarist Drew Shirley has been a member of the alternative rock band Switchfoot since 2005. The band released their ninth album, "Fading West," this January, and their accompanying film of the same title has been showing at concerts since September. Shirley is currently traveling ...
By Alex Mellen | Echo Privacy. It's an issue with almost as many facets and implications as there are phone numbers in the National Security Agency's (NSA's) database. How does the NSA have all this information? That's a complicated story. As far back as 2006, USA Today reported that the government ...
By Alex Mellen | Echo The drones are coming. Online retailer Amazon released a video this week of its newly-imagined Amazon Prime Air, an unmanned aerial system (UAS) that would deliver packages to customers within 30 minutes of their order. Domino's Pizza has also been considering a drone delivery ...
By Alex Mellen | Echo One of my favorite perks as a senior is my unlimited Grille pass. My class schedule allowed me to get a transfer my freshman year, when my classes ran over lunchtime, and since then I've been hooked. But I can be a pretty forgetful student, so I've gone to the Grille a few times ...
By Alex Mellen | Echo Biblical Studies professor Greg MaGee recently released his first book. "Portrait of an Apostle" argues for Paul's authorship of the epistles to the Ephesians and the Colossians and is a reworking of MaGee's doctoral dissertation, a project spanning many years of study. "In the ...
Alex Mellen | Echo The Euler Science Complex garnered a gold rating this week from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). After measuring energy generation and usage for a year, it met LEED's standards in construction, water usage, green energy sources and other factors. "It's not ...
By Alex Mellen | Echo Sometimes our most frightening enemies are the ones we can't see. America was reminded of this last week when letters to President Obama and two government officials in Mississippi were found to contain the poison ricin. The substance has a history of being used on political targets, ...
By Alex Mellen & Rachel Vachon The Vatican chose its 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church Wednesday, according to The New York Times. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (pronounced Ber-GOAL-io) chose the name Pope Francis I after St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of Italy, according to NBC. Pope ...
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