: Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating new Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Herd of ivory elephants reveals illicit trade in Egypt 17:27 31 January 2012 Picture of the Day Flora Graham , deputy editor , newscientist.com Image : Lucy Vigne TRAFFIC Seeing row upon row of elephants would be a marvellous sight except in this Egyptian souvenir shop , where the pachyderms are made of illegal . ivory Despite being banned since 1990, a recent survey by TRAFFIC found that shops in Luxor and Cairo remain
By adding a little push, compound helicopters push the speed limit up to 300 mph.
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DARPA's Space Surveillance Telescope is seeking out potentially Earth-threatening asteroids.
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Solar tantrums of 1859, 1921, and 1989.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is trying out innovation the 21st century way: crowdsourcing.
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Though successful, the Lufthansa trials highlight a problem posed by bio-fuels generally: They're not available yet in sufficient quantity or at an affordable price.
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More than a decade after the first effort to blend reality TV with real-world spaceflight, alent-show impresario Simon Cowell says the winner of "Britain's Got Talent" could go into outer space on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane.
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Orlando Sentinel senior staff photographer Red Huber will be signing copies of his 2012 Space Shuttle calendar on Thursday, January 19. Huber will be in the main lobby of the Sentinel at 633 North Orange Avenue in downtown Orlando from noon until 3 p.m.
Huber signed calendars for the public in December and there was a [...]
Washington struggles for a response to last year’s Reno Air Races crash.
Phantoms v. MiGs over Florida in 1962.
News and Commentary from Stuart O. Witt, CEO and General Manager, Mojave Air & Space Port 2011 was a transformational year here in Mojave. The first privately funded, purpose-built facility to build spaceships was completed in Mojave. That’s a big deal. Next door the announcement that Paul G. Allen and [...]
For aerospace workers in Kansas, the New Year started off with more bad news.
The B-2 needs four fill-ups to keep flying.