John Mahoney

Depth shown in Lions top performers

More Men's Cross Country News If it were up to the Penn State men's cross country team, it would race 12 runners at the regional meet next weekend, that's just how confident the Nittany Lions are in their depth. In the Lions'...

Police charge 14 in connection with Ohio State riot

State College Police filed charges Thursday against 14 people in connection with the Oct. 26 riot, police said. Four people are facing felony rioting charges. Penn State student Robert T. Cook, 21, and three visitors, Shane T....

Live NFL Games Broadcast To Sprint Phones Starting Tonight

This evening's Browns/Broncos game will be the first to be broadcast live for the first time over the Sprint network. It's one of eight games that will be pushed out live to Sprint fans, but the catch is, it's only games that...

Void v.01 LCD Watch: Tokyo Flash For Minamalists

My kind of aesthetic: these half-LCD, half brushed metal watches that get the tech-futurism across without bashing you over the head with binary-encoded time, 60 LEDs, etc. They're available in four colours on Etsy, the eBay...

Inside Consumer Reports' Electronics Testing Lab

You probably only read Consumer Reports if a) you are at your grandparents house or b) you are a grandparent yourself. But that's too bad, because tucked quietly away in the NYC suburb of Yonkers lies one of the biggest and...

Men's XC cracks rankings

After finishing 4th at the Big Ten championship, the Penn State men's cross country team added to their list of accomplishments late Tuesday night. When the most recent rankings were released from the U.S. Track & Field/Cross...

Fired Boston Firefighter Arrested

Matt Collette Globe Correspondent - Donovan Slack of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Register Now Nov. 13 - 3 pm (ET) Select Your State and Click: Former Boston firefighter Albert Arroyo, who was fired after failing...

This is What Landing On Mars Feels Like

Posted by John Mahoney at 6:00 AM on November 6, 2008 This is part 2 of an ongoing series by our latest guest editor, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, as it faces its final days. Just over five months ago, on May 25, I was zooming...

An Overview of a Heat Pump

A heat pump is an environmentally friendly option that creates energy by extracting heat from outside sources such as air, water, and the earth. These resources are available for free and in large quantities. The heat pump...

The Background of an Alternative Source of Energy

Switching from one energy source to another has not been a worldwide event since the introduction of fossil fuels in the early part of the 20th century. At that time, the world relied on horses for transportation and gas lamps...