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Heavy plaster or fiberglass casts can’t be temporarily removed, can’t get wet, and don’t allow skin underneath to breathe. But a team of Colorado-based entrepreneurs are modeling a new system for broken limbs.

Scientists at NASA Langley have been working for decades to understand the critical balance of Earth’s energy budget.

The next time you snap a picture with your cell phone, you can thank NASA for the technology in your hand.

In remote regions, drone delivery systems are already having an impact. But getting the drones back so they can be used again is the new problem.

With a surface temperature of 870 degrees Fahrenheit, a heavy carbon dioxide atmosphere, active volcanoes, and deadly clouds of sulfuric acid, Venus is a tough world to explore.

Safe to swallow devices for medical procedures are not a new idea, but MIT has a new way to power them.

NASA Langley is marking 100 years of innovations --- innovations that made us trailblazers in aeronautics, pioneers in human space flight, and leaders in atmospheric science.

Using ground-based systems, a spacecraft in orbit can communicate with Earth for about fifteen minutes as the spacecraft passes over the ground station. But a space-based network increases the amount of information sent to Earth and provides continuous communications from orbiting missions.

Field testing in Earth’s extreme environments can prepare us for exploration of alien worlds.

What if we could design a glider that actually interacted with charged particles to create lift and drag?