For years, pilots believed there was a hard wall in the sky no aircraft could cross. Then the X-plane program proved it wrong. This video tells the story of the dangerous test flights, rocket planes, ...

Abstract: Based on finite element modeling in the COMSOL Multiphysics software suit, acoustic barriers with a sound-absorbing cylindrical cap with different angles of its installation on the upper ...

This activity will focus on trying to understand the barriers facing two- and four-year undergraduates who intend to major in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and opportunities ...

A new report, Refugee Housing and Homelessness: Scoping Local Authority Approaches, has been published by SOAS researchers Dr Anna Lindley and Dr Charlotte Sanders, examining how local authorities in ...

Silence really is golden — and homeowners are willing to pay more for it. Specifically, when traffic noise fades, home values tend to creep up. A new academic study by the National Bureau of Academic ...

In the early hours of July 5, 1955, a bulky prototype interceptor drifted through the night skies over southern England. The Gloster Javelin was never meant to be fast. Large, heavy, and designed for ...

The New Hampshire Department of Transportation will close the I-95 Exit 7 southbound on-ramp in Portsmouth overnight Dec. 14 for construction work. Nighttime work will occur between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m., ...