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Boeing to acquire Aurora Flight Sciences to advance autonomous technology capabilities

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Boeing plans to acquire Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation ; Aurora specializes in autonomous systems technologies to enable advanced robotic aircraft for future aerospace applications and vehicles. Headquartered in Manassas, Virginia, Aurora has more than 550 employees and operates in six states in the U.S.

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Study Finds Ozone, Nitrogen Change the Way Rising CO2 Affects Earths Water

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Through a recent modeling experiment, a team of NASA-funded researchers have found that future concentrations of carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmosphere and of nitrogen in the soil are likely to have an important but overlooked effect on the cycling of water from sky to land to waterways. Benjamin Felzer, Lehigh University. Cronin, J.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. motor with the potential to efficiently power future. at San Diego, Mississippi State. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced. energy storage MIT and Boston College will develop phase change materials. If developed.

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