Warmer air temperatures high above the Antarctic led to the second smallest seasonal ozone hole in 20 years, according to NOAA and NASA satellite measurements. This year, the average size of the ozone hole was 6.9 million square miles (17.9…

Seventy years after it was scuttled off Los Angeles, Calif., government archaeologists have found the wrecked remains of a rare Pacific Coast schooner that was employed in the lumber trade during the early 1900s. Today, Robert Schwemmer, maritime archaeologist for…

Tucson. Arizona has earthquakes. Now with the online release of "Arizona is Earthquake Country," Arizonans have a guide on how to prepare for and minimize damage from the ground shaking that accompanies earthquakes. Each year dozens of earthquakes occur in…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a heart defibrillator that helps to restore regular heart rhythms with leads that can be implanted just under the skin (subcutaneously) instead of connected directly into the heart. An implantable defibrillator is…

New jammer variant to provide warfighters with greater capability TUCSON, Arizona,- The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) have jointly started operational testing of the Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer (MALD®-J). After completing a highly successful developmental test…

Multiple Raytheon systems integrated to successfully protect ships WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. - A recent U.S. Army and Navy test proved the Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) JLENS can integrate with defensive systems currently in the U.S. Navy's inventory to…

A new technology is being deployed by U.S. Geological Survey scientists this weekend to map urban flooding caused by Hurricane Isaac. Called terrestrial lidar, or T-lidar, this new capability will enable scientists to collect highly detailed information in select population…

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to become the first probe to orbit and study two distant destinations to help scientists answer questions about the formation of our solar system. The spacecraft is scheduled to leave the giant…

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), the first twin-spacecraft mission designed to explore our planet's radiation belts, launched into the predawn skies at 4:05a.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The two satellites, each weighing…

By C. Todd Lopez WASHINGTON -- By March 2014, the MQ-1C Gray Eagle, an Army unmanned aerial system, or UAS, will be able to train in the same airspace as the Boeing 747, with the help of the Army-developed Ground…

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The bottom of a glacier is not the most hospitable place on Earth, but at least two types of bacteria happily live there, according to researchers. The bacteria -- Chryseobacterium and Paenisporosarcina -- showed signs of…

The scientists of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including astronomers at Penn State, have produced a new map of the universe that is in full color, covers more than one quarter of the entire sky, and is full of…