Aviation needs to clean up its climate act—fast. In 2008, aviation leaders committed to reducing CO 2 emissions by the year 2050 to half of their 2005 levels. Now some are even talking about ...

Scientists have developed bacteria that serve as mobile pharmaceutical factories, both producing disease-fighting substances and delivering the potentially life-saving cargo to diseased areas of the ...

According to Airships.com: A dirigible is any lighter-than-air craft that is both powered and steerable (as opposed to free floating, like a balloon). Blimps like the Goodyear blimp, rigid airships ...

In the realm of ill-fated innovations, dirigibles loom large. They were grand in size, floating mightily over cities and across oceans in the early 20th century, and also grand of vision—like a whole ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- The skies over the Utah desert are becoming the test site for a new fleet of hulking high-tech dirigibles the U.S. military is hoping will provide battlefield commanders a bird's-eye ...

Proving the capability of high-tech military balloons will require buzzing drones, jets and an occasional unarmed surface-to-air missile. Most of the tests will be conducted in military air space ...