Technology & Innovation

Researchers used computer models to see what would have happened had scientists caused marine cloud brightening in the face of strong past El Niños.

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum joins the aviation and spaceflight communities in mourning the loss of Wally Funk, who was a remarkable pilot, flight instructor, Air Safety Investigator, and record-setting commercial astronaut.

The National Air and Space Museum’s building in downtown Washington DC just turned 50 years old, but the Museum’s story began long before the ribbon-cutting in 1976. In this episode, we’re going way back in time for some deep Air and Space lore.

Astronomers spend much of their time mapping the universe, but until now their results have been collected and archived in so many different ways that the data can’t talk to each other.

In 2015, the Museum began a process of reimagining all its gallery spaces. A lot had changed since the Space Hall’s last major update in 1997. As a result, the Space Race exhibition was reimagined as the RTX Living in the Space Age exhibition.

New observations of WD 1856 b, a gas giant closely orbiting a white dwarf, offer a preview of what could happen to Jupiter and Saturn after the sun dies in about five billion years.

Previously, researchers created electrical implants to control cockroaches’ movements for search-and-rescue missions. Now, they’ve made 3D-printed suits that provide oxygen, allowing the critters to survive submerged for up to three hours.