Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship blasts off for a high-altitude escape system test. (Blue Origin via YouTube) As Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos watched, his Blue Origin space venture sent its reusable New Shepard spaceship to its highest-ever altit...

The draft bill is an attempt at compromise between environmentalists and conservatives favoring climate action-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

(University of Minnesota) Farmers and plant breeders can now build their own automated field camera track system to collect data on dynamic plant traits, such as crop lodging and movement, as it's happening in the field to help reduce losses in...

(World Scientific) Hugh Peyman reasons that in order to react effectively to today's rapid changes, societies, firms and individuals must understand the nature of change itself. He believes that the best way to do this is to look at China and it...

(American Society of Agronomy) One of the essential nutrients for vigorous crop production is nitrogen. Yet most routine tests done in commercial soil testing labs do not measure available nitrogen in the soil. Soil scientists at The Ohio State Unive...

(University of California - San Diego) By doping alumina crystals with neodymium ions, engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new laser material that is capable of emitting ultra-short, high-power pulses -- a combination...

News Brief: Michigan-based says it will provide telemetry, commanding and data support for the Earth-observing satellite constellation that’s due to be put into low Earth orbit for Seattle-based . In a , ATLAS says it will offer support via new groun...

(Ecological Society of America) Ecological Society of America will present its 11th annual Regional Policy Award to Representative Walter J. Leger III, speaker pro tempore of the Louisiana House of Representatives, during the Society's Annual Me...

The oddball Jovian moon, known as Valetudo, crosses the orbits of moons that move in the opposite direction. Click on the image for a larger version. (Carnegie Institution of Science / Roberto Molar Candanosa) Astronomers searching for signs of a hyp...

(DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) Article describes simulation of mechanism that eliminates sawtooth instabilities in fusion plasmas.