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Even when you buy plant-based biodegradable plastics, a small amount of a petroleum-based chemical has been added to make the product more flexible. But thanks to some replacement research, green plastics may soon be truly green!

The work of a handful of aircraft researchers had been reassigned. Their new task – to concentrate on human space flight.

Computer programs have grown so complex, some containing millions of lines of code, that defending them is difficult.

The recent night launch of an Antares rocket to the International Space Station marked the official return of medium-lift launches from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

NASA takes us on an in-depth tour --- all in Ultra High Definition and filmed with a fish-eye lens that captures every detail.

With the roll out of radio frequency identification, or RFID scanning technology to replace the manual scanning of barcodes, one airline has become the first to offer end-to-end visibility for baggage processing.

When fast just isn’t fast enough, we move to hypersonic speeds.

Perched on the roof of a tall building in Hampton, Virginia, the newly installed Direct Broadcast System joins a network of only 10 antennas like it in the country to provide the most up-to-date atmospheric data possible.

NASA needs to send plants on deep space missions as food for astronauts. But the scientists just don’t have time to check out thousands of plant varieties themselves. So NASA has put their research into the hands of students.

After converting deep space images from Hubble, researchers believe the previous estimate of 200 billion galaxies in our universe is at least 10 times too low.