Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2022
Space station gets 3 new residents after Russian launch
The International Space Station welcomed three new residents Wednesday following a smooth Russian launch.
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Environment
Nov 18, 2021
California, Arizona and Nevada in talks on new plan to save Colorado River water
Two and a half years after signing a deal aimed at averting a damaging crisis along the Colorado River, water officials from California, Arizona and Nevada are discussing plans to take even less water from the shrinking river ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 1, 2021
On birds—feathered messengers from deep time
When I experienced a great loss in in my early forties—almost a year to the day after another—I went to see my mother in the family home. She wasn't a hugger or giver of advice, so instead we fed the birds. As she had ...
Environment
Oct 12, 2015
Forecasters look higher for clues to winter weather
Long-range winter weather forecasts could be twice as accurate by taking account of unusual winds miles up in the stratosphere, scientists have found.
General Physics
Apr 9, 2015
Virtual parachute offers better design, deployment and accident diagnoses
Stony Brook University researchers are developing a computational platform to mimic the complex "Inflation Dynamics" behavior a parachute's canopy undergoes as it travels through an airflow to help improve designs.
Other
Jan 20, 2015
Romanian who claimed he invented world's first jetpack dies
A Romanian inventor who claimed he beat the Americans to make the world's first jetpack and went on to design and build dozens of vehicles, calling the modern-day car "a disgrace," has died aged 81.
Archaeology
Feb 23, 2014
New insights into the origin of birds
Mark Puttick and colleagues investigated the rates of evolution of the two key characteristics that preceded flight: body size and forelimb length. In order to fly, hulking meat-eating dinosaurs had to shrink in size and ...
Space Exploration
Dec 10, 2013
Europe aims for first comet landing Nov. 11 (Update 2)
It's been likened to a parachutist trying to land on a mountaintop. Or a person attempting to leap from one speeding car to another.
Space Exploration
Feb 4, 2013
Supersonic skydiver reached 844 mph in record jump (Update)
Supersonic Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner was faster than he or anyone else thought during his record-setting jump last October from 24 miles (38 kilometers) up.
Space Exploration
Oct 10, 2012
Athlete looking at Sunday for supersonic skydive (Update)
Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner hopes to make a second attempt to become the world's first supersonic skydiver with a 23-mile (37-kilometer) free fall over New Mexico on Sunday or Monday.
