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In a lot of vital machinery like steam-powered generators, a condenser uses this effect to cool hot gasses, improving the engine's operating cycle.

A 50-year partnership between NASA and the U.S. Army has helped enhance both military and civilian helicopters – validating innovations like cockpit airbags and wire protection systems.

A pet owner can either track data or opt to let the computer forward that information directly to the vet – all in real time.

If you're building an airplane wing, and you want to know just how far it will bend before it breaks... you could just go ahead and break it. But there has to be a better way.

A NASA app monitors an aircraft's current position, altitude, flight route, air traffic, and real-time weather conditions --- and searches for changes in altitudes or routes that can save flight time.

The isolation, absence of family, interacting with the same people, and going months without shipments of fresh food or mail make Antarctica very similar to spaceflight.

When Congress set up NACA, they gave them one primary mission: to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution.

How do you test a giant telescope before sending it to space?

The ongoing war against infections has a new weapon today and for a change, it's physical, not chemical or biological.

Food poisoning puts thousands of lives at risk each year, but tracking tainted food just got easier.