NexOptic Technology Corp. ("NexOptic") (NXOPF) (TSX VENTURE: NXO) (FRANKFURT:E301) (BERLIN:E301) and Spectrum Optix Inc. of Calgary, Canada ("Spectrum,") and together with NexOptic, the "Companies") ...

The high-impact workout regimen is all the rage in the fitness world. But there is mounting evidence that its strong results come at a price. When Andy Petranek discovered CrossFit in 2004, it was ...

Mars premieres tonight on the National Geographic channel. The epic mini-series, produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, seamlessly merges documentary footage and current science and progress in ...

Stephen Petranek says, in the next decade, we will send humans to colonize Mars. He lays out the technology--from water-extraction to bricks made of Martian soil--that'll make life possible there.

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Stephen Petranek thinks we should have gone to Mars years ago — decades even. We’ve had the technology. We had the money. We just didn’t get around to focusing our time, resources, and energy on the ...

, an old abandoned building and some computer software and he can turn out an image that gives people reason to pause. Using a technique called high dynamic range, Petranek combines a series of ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port of Port Townsend will soon have its first female commissioner. Jefferson County voters favored Pam Petranek over Chuck Fauls in preliminary election results on Tuesday.

Petranek was born in in White River and attended college at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, and received his BS degree in 1942. At graduation, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant with the ...

BELLE FOURCHE - "He's just a good man," Alice Petranek said of her husband of 63 years as the crowd thinned after dedication of the Ed Petranek Armory at the Belle Fourche High School gym Friday, Sept ...