Science & Technology

NASA, Columbia U. Enact Collaborative Space Act Agreement – NASA

NASA, Columbia U. Enact Collaborative Space Act Agreement – NASA

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Columbia University in New York, New York, enacted a collaborative Space Act Agreement to advance research and education opportunities during a signing ceremony Monday, Dec. 16, at Goddard. Presiding over the […]

Electrons in twisted graphene form novel 1/3 fractional quantum Hall state

Polymer editing could turn waste into high-performance plastics

By editing the polymers of discarded plastics, chemists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a way to generate new macromolecules with more valuable properties than the starting material. Upcycling can help recover the approximately 450

Electrons in twisted graphene form novel 1/3 fractional quantum Hall state

NASA Faces of Technology: Meet Lauren Best Ameen – NASA

If you tell Lauren Best Ameen something is hard and cannot be done, she will likely reply, “Watch me.” As deputy manager for the Cryogenic Fluid Management Portfolio Project Office at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ameen and her

Atmospheric Probe Takes Flight – NASA

Atmospheric Probe Takes Flight – NASA

NASA/Steve Freeman On Oct. 22, 2024, the latest iteration of an atmospheric probe developed by researchers at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, successfully completed a test flight. Building on NASA 1960s research on lifting body aircraft, which