Aircraft

NASA’s research goes far beyond putting astronauts into space. In fact, this aircraft design is an example of NASA’s research into aircraft design in an effort to make commercial planes a bit easier on the ears — and the Earth.

Unmanned aerial vehicles have become popular tools in America’s wars, but that technology is working its way back stateside. Already, there are a few domestic uses of drones, mostly by law enforcement and the military. But manufacturers have much bigger ideas in mind.

Israel is employing a growing fleet of drones to monitor its adversaries and to have should the country ever again be threatened militarily. But one of their newest and most advanced versions crashed over the weekend, just weeks before it was expected to be declared operational.

An American unmanned aerial vehicle was lost over Iran recently, and Iranian officials say it was a top secret RQ-170. They displayed what they said was the drone on state TV recently.

How hurricanes affect oil prices — which recently dropped to a five-month low — and what we can look forward to in the coming weeks.