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Aerodynamics

Boeing 747

How might global warming affect air travel?

Science

Air travel has become increasingly irritating for most travelers in the past decade or so. Travelers might be facing one more irritant in the future: flights delayed or cancelled due to extreme heat.

This blue airplane is actually quite green — and perhaps it’s the future

Environment

Physics theory suggests everything that moves is based on a ‘flow system’

Environment

Cape Wind project gets green light

Environment
The World

Daredevil Flies Into Rio de Janeiro Wearing a Wingsuit

Sports
The World

Science Note/Bat Aerodynamics

New research shows that the hair on bats’ wings are essential for agile flight.

Tiny Glider Swims Big

A Rutgers University team launches an underwater robotic glider. RU27 is zigzagging under the sea, collecting data on water temperature and salt levels to give scientists clues about the impact of climate change on the ocean.

Catching the Wind, Part Three

The future of wind power in the U.S.A. may rest off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. That’s where developers want to build the nation’s first offshore wind farm. It would consist of 130 turbines, each taller than the Statue of Liberty, that proponents say would supply seventy-five percent of the region’s electric power. But […]

Catching the Wind, Part Two

Our examination of modern wind power continues with a look at the United States. We visit Altamont Pass in California, the place where more birds are killed by wind turbines than anywhere else in the world. But California is also home to High Winds, an energy park that even critics of wind power agree is […]

Catching the Wind, Part Three

The future of wind power in the U.S.A. may rest off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. That’s where developers want to build the nation’s first offshore wind farm. It would consist of 130 turbines, each taller than the Statue of Liberty, that proponents say would supply seventy-five percent of the region’s electric power. But […]