Climate change is making the risk of disastrous chemical accidents more likely. But the EPA wants to gut recently enhanced safety requirements for hazardous facilities. By Liza Gross Raschelle Grandison had just walked out her front door to grab something from her car on a chilly March morning in 2019Continue Reading
Dawn L. Oliver Acting Chief Counsel Dawn L. Oliver serves as the acting chief counsel for NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, a role she assumed in January 2026. She is responsible for leading the Office of the General Counsel’s management and strategy, as well as providing legal advice andContinue Reading
Gray whales are beginning to break their long-established migration patterns, venturing into risky new territory like San Francisco Bay as climate change disrupts their Arctic food supply. But this unexpected detour is proving deadly: nearly one in five whales that enter the Bay don’t survive, with many struck by shipsContinue Reading
Amid the hum of milking equipment and the shuffle of cow hooves, PhD student Audrey Parker and her collaborators pull a wagon through a dusty path of a dairy barn, measuring an invisible greenhouse gas drifting through the air. Most engineering students wouldn’t expect their graduate research to take themContinue Reading
The administration’s war in Iran and refusal to invest in renewable energy are driving up pump prices and utility bills for their constituents, the Democrats contend. By Arcelia Martin Ann Siegle used to spend anywhere from $150 to $280 monthly on her power bill. Since installing solar panels on theContinue Reading
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Jacqueline Lassetter wanted to see America’s biggest data center. So one day in July last year, at the age of 78, she jumped into a car with her daughter, Daphne, and headed west across the muddy Chattahoochee River, leaving their wooded Georgia home for the Nevada desert. A week later, she wasContinue Reading
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Pictured above is the top four-fifths of the SLS (Space Launch System) core stage – the section containing the liquid hydrogen tank, liquid oxygen tank, intertank, and forward skirt. NASA will roll the largest section of the agency’s SLS rocket that will launch the second crewed Artemis mission under theContinue Reading
NASA’s 32nd annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge, one of the agency’s longest-standing student challenges, culminated April 10-11 with its final excursion event at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Spanning nine months, the challenge tasks student teams from around the worldContinue Reading
Credit: NASA NASA has selected Development Seed of Washington to provide research and development services to the Office of Data Science and Informatics (ODSI) at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The award is a performance-based, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum potential value of $76 million. AContinue Reading
April 13, 2026: International Space Station Configuration. Five spaceships are parked at the space station including the SpaceX Crew-12 Dragon, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL, the Soyuz MS-28 crew ship, and the Progress 93 and 94 resupply ships. NASA Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft has been installed to the Unity module’sContinue Reading