It's 9:32 and for this week's activity on the signs of it. Kids can learn about the skill of observation. First warning meteorologist Alex Lacey is showing us all how to make homemade parachutes.

One of my themes in this column over the years has been that you need to be skeptical of many of the claims out there about science and medicine. A healthy dose of skepticism can be a good thing, ...

Recent research has shown that most scientific papers on coral biodiversity are led by people in high-income countries with few coral reefs. Reinhard Dirscherl / ullstein bild via Getty Images This ...

Global Field Program (GFP) graduate Emily Utset '23 of New York, New York, was published in the journal of Conservation Biology. Her article examines strategies to combat parachute science in Latin ...

Parachutes rarely get the credit they deserve. They transform deadly freefall into a gentle descent, saving lives in war zones, rescue missions, and even humanitarian aid drops. But they come with a ...

Despite a parachute failure, NASA officials say the experimental Ares I-X rocket performed as well or better than computer modeling predicted during its six-minute test flight. Bill Harwood has been ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The booster rocket used in a test flight was badly dented when it fell into the Atlantic Ocean because of a deflated parachute, NASA said Thursday. The new Ares I-X — the ...

ORLANDO, Fla., April 28 (UPI) --NASA released images of the parachute and backshell that helped the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter land on Mars last year. The pictures, released Wednesday ...

The parachute for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) passed flight-qualification after testing in March and April 2009 inside the world’s largest wind tunnel at NASA’s Ames Research Center. In this ...

New images taken by Ingenuity, NASA’s record-breaking Mars helicopter, show Perseverance’s discarded parachute and protective backshell, which helped the rover and helicopter safely land on the ...

MEXICO CITY — Back in 2019, while she worked for the biotech Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Claudia Gonzaga heard a rumor that thrilled her. The company would begin sequencing and analyzing the DNA of 150 ...