Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine went on display at a Colorado space conference in April. (Blue Origin Photo) After and months of uncertainty, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ has won a high-stakes race to provide United Launch Alliance with its BE-4 r...

(University of Johannesburg) Bacterial wilt devastates food crops world-wide. It destroys major crop plants such as tomatoes, potatoes, bananas and ginger. So far farmers have had to plant and wait for mature plants to observe resistance. Now researc...

(Bureau of Reclamation) Reclamation is providing $45,000 in support of a six-year study of the endangered pallid sturgeon in the upper Missouri River above Fort Peck, Montana. They are maintaining a radio-telemetry monitoring system located within th...

Stratolaunch’s giant airplane sits outside its hangar at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port in a picture captured on Sept. 22 by DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-1 satellite from an altitude of more than 300 miles. Click on the image for a larger version...

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) The first warning issued by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center for Tropical Depression 29W was early on September 26 (0600 GMT). The second warning for this active tropical storm came out at (1500 GMT).

(Rutgers University) Rutgers researchers discover a possible cause for Alzheimer's and traumatic brain injury, and the new mechanism may have also led to the discovery of an effective treatment.

(Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) A team of Harvard University researchers spent months shaking and rattling swarms of thousands of honey bees to better understand how bees collectively collaborate to stabilize stru...

The detectors aim to help oil and gas companies pinpoint methane leaks in their operations-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen explains what exactly emotional support animals are, and whether or not you really have to sit next to one at your favorite restaurant-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

(Osaka University) An international joint research group led by Osaka University demonstrated that it was possible to efficiently heat plasma by focusing a relativistic electron beam (REB) accelerated by a high-intensity short-pulse laser with the ap...