Innovation Now

Working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, scientists use the same computer software used to study a star or planet to study statistics from anonymous cancer patients.

One award from NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts Program plans to demonstrate a cost-effective idea for sample return that taps into existing technologies.

In the Air Traffic Operations Laboratory, a team at NASA Langley uses lab space and software to test today’s air systems.

Although much like a sail on a sailboat, this design is not your typical solar sail. HERTS is a propulsion system ideal for deep space missions to the outer planets and beyond.

NASA Langley’s Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate is doing what they do best – applying their expertise in flight and robotic designs to find an innovative crash/landing system for UAVs.

Everyone has a slightly different circadian rhythm, the body’s biological clock that tells us when to sleep and when to wake. Unfortunately, light at night throws our circadian rhythm out of whack.

The Vascular Tissue Challenge, one of NASA’s Centennial Challenge competitions, is looking at ways to effectively mitigate the toll space travel takes on the human body.

In March 1941, engineers at what is now NASA Langley Research Center began operating a unique wind tunnel that would test more than 600 projects to date.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are currently testing a milk-based alternative to plastic that is both biodegradable and edible.

Using forestry databases and U.S. Forest Service drones, a team has developed a computer simulation capable of growing realistic virtual forests.