WASHINGTON -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to become the first probe to orbit and study two distant destinations to help scientists answer questions about the formation of our solar system. The spacecraft is scheduled to leave the giant…

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), the first twin-spacecraft mission designed to explore our planet's radiation belts, launched into the predawn skies at 4:05a.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The two satellites, each weighing…

By C. Todd Lopez WASHINGTON -- By March 2014, the MQ-1C Gray Eagle, an Army unmanned aerial system, or UAS, will be able to train in the same airspace as the Boeing 747, with the help of the Army-developed Ground…

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The bottom of a glacier is not the most hospitable place on Earth, but at least two types of bacteria happily live there, according to researchers. The bacteria -- Chryseobacterium and Paenisporosarcina -- showed signs of…

The scientists of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including astronomers at Penn State, have produced a new map of the universe that is in full color, covers more than one quarter of the entire sky, and is full of…

Miniature flying robot among TIMEs 2011 best 50 inventions Rapidly flapping wings to hover, dive, climb, or dart through an open doorway, DARPAs remotely controlled Nano Air Vehicle relays real-time video from a tiny on-board camera back to its operator.…

NOAAs updated Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI), which measures the direct climate influence of many greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, shows a continued steady upward trend that began with the Industrial Revolution of the 1880s. Started in…

Lake Apopka Floridas third largest was once a haven for migratory birds, vacationers and fishermen. Today it is a toxic broth of chemicals and ranks among Americas more disturbing Superfund sites. Here, Rolf Halden and his colleagues from the Biodesign…

Among certainties about life in the desert Southwest are that the supply, use, conservation and management of water will always be pressing issues. So its certain that Arizona State University and Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering alumnus Michael Johnson…

A B-2 Spirit flies to the North Pole Oct. 27, 2011, on a test mission from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The polar flight helped ensure that the B-2 maintains its global combat power capability in all environments with new…

Washington, D.C. Researchers from the Department of Energys (DOEs) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) jointly launched a groundbreaking new online tool called the Materials Project, which operates like a Google of material…

When people recognize voices, part of what helps make voice recognition accurate is noticing how people pronounce words differently. But individuals with dyslexia don't experience this familiar language advantage, say researchers. The likely reason: "phonological impairment." Tyler Perrachione with the…