SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

he Autonomous Systems Laboratory team at NASA’s Stennis Space Center recently cleared a major milestone for a historic in-flight mission to demonstrate the capabilities of a site-developed autonomous software package. The NASA Stennis team passed its software Flight Readiness Review...

Video Credit: NASA/Steven LoganAir taxis hold the promise to revolutionize air transportation. NASA is working to make this vision a reality, collaborating with industry to reduce aircraft noise in our communities. Quiet flight will be especially important when air taxis...

Marshall Kicks Off Holiday Season with Tree-Lighting Ceremony NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center celebrated its annual tree-lighting ceremony in the courtyard of Building 4221 on Nov 30.Marshall team members and their children gathered for the lighting of the 32-foot artificial...

Private and military organizations are tracking some of the 170 million pieces of space junk orbiting the planet, but they’re limited to how small an object they can detect. Only chunks larger than a softball can be tracked with...

Titanium hip implants snapped in hundreds of people, took years before some products recalled - CBS News ...

Hottest day on record. Hottest month on record. Extreme marine heatwaves. Record-low Antarctic sea-ice.While El Niño is...

Wildfires in the U.S. have caused a decline in air quality and an increase of deaths in parts of the U.S. – even though air quality had been improving, researchers say. The study used data on air pollution and...

Drug side effects may not always be a bad thing, for painkillers at least. An inert nasal spray that...

AS THE old joke goes, when I read about the dangers of smoking, I gave up reading. If you...

EMBARGOED to 12:01aET Dec 6 - do not publish before that dateLiving near farmland can significantly increase people’s exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used herbicide Roundup, new research shows. This chemical...