Richard DeFreece recalls making a beeline to the Guinness World Record books at Scholastic Book Fairs as a child. Years later, the 45-year-old has earned a place in those pages himself, having folded ...

A legendary high speed aircraft sits on the edge of history as the team works through checks fuel systems and stubborn components to see if it will finally start. The focus stays on real mechanical ...

We explore how one aircraft changed the meaning of survival in hostile airspace. The SR-71 Blackbird did not rely on weapons or stealth alone. Speed altitude and engineering worked together to keep it ...

Manufacturing in the U.S. pivoted in 2025, with a wave of expansions by aerospace and defense companies replacing clean energy projects that were paused or canceled as federal funding priorities ...

SPIM multiview registration is complicated by degradation of the signal along the illumination as well as detection axes (Fig. 1b), limited overlap between the views, different orientations of the ...

This cutaway view shows the interior of the Starlab space station’s laboratory. (Starlab Illustration) How do you design a living space where there’s no up or down? That’s one of the challenges facing ...