NASA and Boeing are collaborating to study the impact of sustainable aviation fuels on contrail formation and climate change. Their research involves flight testing different…
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This Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite image has vividly captured ships transiting the 80 km-long Panama Canal, a significant engineering achievement connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.…
A study by Berkeley’s Haas School of Business debunks popular myths around airline ticket pricing strategies. Instead of the expected economic behaviors, airlines often use…
NASA and the U.S. Air Force are testing Joby Aviation’s eVTOL air taxi for potential civilian and military applications. Credit: Joby Aviation Air taxis may…
Joby Aviation’s electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is pictured at Edwards Air Force Base in Edwards, California. Joby announced the delivery of this…
Connected vehicles improve travel time through intersections, but automated vehicles without connectivity can slow it down due to safety programming. Research emphasizes the importance of…
Professor Yuriy Román-Leshkov and collaborators have demonstrated a new way to produce a critical component of aviation fuel from lignin, a plant material that’s generally…
A gas station in Los Angeles. Of all 155 countries in the UCLA-led study, the U.S. has gone the longest without raising gasoline taxes: The…
NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft, or QueSST, is designed to fly faster than the speed of sound without producing a loud, disruptive sonic boom,…
Credit: Graphics by Carly Wilkins, Energy Department What if you could travel from New York to Los Angeles in just under seven hours without boarding…
Panicked purchasing, empty store shelves, long lines at the gas station—given supply chain woes, is that America for the foreseeable future? Yes and no, said…
Using carbon tax revenue to fund free green electricity and public transport could significantly reduce individual households’ greenhouse gas emissions, a new study has found. …
Since the onset of the COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory…
Daylight saving time ends in the U.S. and Canada on November 7, 2021, and most of us will be setting our clocks back an hour.…
NASA is expanding research to lead the nation to a sustainable, net-zero carbon emissions aviation future. Credit: Vehicle image created by Scott Anders, Rich Wahls…
October 1 – 23, 2021 Scientific Questions Arrive in Ports Satellite observations of nitrogen dioxide near key U.S. ports suggest that increased shipping activity and…
Consumers are still finding bare store shelves. Walk into any U.S. store these days and you’re likely to see empty shelves. Shortages of virtually every…
October 10, 2021 The pandemic has disrupted global supply chains and markets in ways that have led to backlogs of cargo ships at key ports.…
Although in-school transmission of COVID-19 among K-12 students is low when safeguards are in place, the risk of acquiring COVID-19 during school bus transportation is…