Stennis Flashback: NASA Test Series Leads to Bold Space Shuttle Flight

It may have been small, but the white puff of smoke exiting the B-2 Test Stand…

NASA Sets Coverage of Spacewalk, News Conference for Station Upgrades

Two crew members, including a NASA astronaut, living aboard the International Space Station will conduct a…

Restaurant menu labels could help fight climate change, new research says

If people had more information about the carbon footprint generated by the food they eat, would…

Losing faith in evangelicalism: Sexual 'purity' and lack of conversion key issues

The impossible imperative of conversion and the unsustainable ideal of sexual purity and marriage are two…

NASA Retired Solar Energy Imager Spacecraft to Reenter Atmosphere

NASA’s RHESSI spacecraft is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere in April, almost 21 years after launch. …

Plastic action or distraction? As climate change bears down, calls to reduce plastic pollution are not wasted

Climate change, pollution and overfishing are just a few problems that need addressing to maintain a…

Less ice means fewer calling seals, finds study

When the sea ice vanishes, Antarctic seals become silent. This is the main conclusion of a…

We might be able to find evidence for modified gravity in the Earth

Testing the possibility of models of gravity different from general relativity may be closer to home…

A dive into the deep past reveals Indigenous burning helped suppress bushfires 10,000 years ago

Indigenous Australians have conducted cultural burning for at least ten millennia and the practice helped reduce…

Upending a decades-long theory of reverse osmosis water desalination

The process of reverse osmosis has proven to be the state-of-the-art method for removing salt from…