Aerospace

According to a new report, high-speed rail will improve job creation, market access, connectivity, travel time savings and business sales. Here's how.

20 | June 14, 2010 8:08am | By Andrew Nusca

We say goodbye to Thinking Tech editor Dana Blankenhorn and hello to a new one: Dan Nosowitz.

June 2, 2010 7:02am | By Andrew Nusca

Researchers find a new way to produce materials to keep electronics cool and carbon composites strong.

3 | June 1, 2010 4:00am | By Melissa Mahony

3M and Rope Partner announced a new in-field study on how the erosion of the leading edge of wind turbine blades affects power output.

May 24, 2010 6:34pm | By Andrew Nusca

Lockheed Martin has landed a $1.5 million contract from the U.S. Army for the development of its Kinetic Energy Net aircraft armor.

April 28, 2010 6:53am | By Andrew Nusca

The French city of Toulouse plans to install energy-absorbing sidewalk panels to power street lights.

3 | April 26, 2010 6:32am | By Andrew Nusca

A U.S. Navy-owned F/A-18 Super Hornet is the first supersonic jet with afterburners to fly on a biofuels blend.

13 | April 22, 2010 1:30pm | By Andrew Nusca

Boeing will develop portions of the U.S. Air Force's new ground control system for more secure, accurate and precise navigation.

3 | April 12, 2010 9:56am | By Andrew Nusca

Elon Musk's critics have come out of the woodwork because President Obama's NASA budget favors private rocket companies over traditional and expensive NASA space flight programs. Are Musk and...

4 | February 24, 2010 1:54pm | By John Dodge

MIT has launched a project to create images in three dimensional space. The idea is challenging, but researchers think the ultra-tiny computing technologies exist to pull it off.

February 19, 2010 9:18am | By John Dodge

Space Adventures President and CEO Eric Anderson says once a lunar mission is announced, it will take place within three to five years.

4 | January 12, 2010 4:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

New space education program has reserved a seat aboard SpaceShipTwo for one lucky volunteer.

3 | January 4, 2010 4:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

Boeing's first 787 "hopscotches" around Washington state, performs touch and go.

January 2, 2010 6:30am | By John Dodge

The designer of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, Teague's John Barret, discusses how passenger comfort and interior design played a role in the design of the breakthrough airplane.

1 | December 16, 2009 8:51am | By Andrew Nusca

Florida will become the launch pad for high-speed rail innovation, just as it was for space travel.

8 | December 11, 2009 7:49am | By Joe McKendrick

A panel recently concluded that NASA should consider flying to one of Mars' moons, rather than the planet itself. But the suggestion is still dangerous.

26 | September 16, 2009 1:21pm | By Andrew Nusca

The U.S. Department of Defense has contracted for the development of bullet-resistant windows that dim instantly with a touch of a button.

September 14, 2009 7:27am | By Andrew Nusca

NASA wants to spend nearly $19 billion in the year starting October 1, for a program totally divorced from market forces the President's own advisory committee now calls unrealistic. How much more...

2 | September 10, 2009 2:00pm | By Dana Blankenhorn

A 20-minute podcast with an avionics engineer analyzes the final four minutes of technical messages transmitted by flight 447 to Air France maintenance. The engineer only identified as "Darryl"...

1 | June 11, 2009 9:30am | By John Dodge

Seamans, who was deputy administrator for NASA for the better part of the 1960s' had to make key decisions such as whether to go directly to moon from earth orbit or use a moon orbiter...

1 | June 11, 2009 5:59am | By John Dodge