By crowdsourcing innovation through a contest, NASA hopes to solve a poop problem with financial incentives that have dependably spurred invention.
Would You Keep Your Plow or Switch to No-Till?
Our story starts during the early 19th century with some unplantable sticky thick sod in the US Midwest. Trying to solve the problem, John Deere, a local blacksmith, developed a steel moldboard plow that could break up the sod, weeds and…