Mar 29 2011

Airport Body Scanners Not a Health Risk

Tag: Air Travel,Health and Safety,ImagingDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 3:43 pm
A traveler would have to go through a body scanner 50 times to receive the same amount of radiation as from a dental X ray.

Dec 27 2010

Blizzard Brings East Coast Travel to a Halt

Tag: Air Travel,Christmas,Driving,Holidays,Storms,Transportation,Wind,WinterDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 3:30 pm
A massive blizzard brought chaos to air, road and train transit.

Nov 24 2010

Radiation Risk from Flying Dwarfs Body Scanners

Tag: Air Travel,Health,SafetyEmily Sohn @ 5:55 pm
Given the amount of radiation passengers are exposed to in flight, concerns over the safety of the body scanners may be misguided.

Nov 23 2010

Going Through Airport Security? What to Expect

Tag: Air Travel,Explosives,Government,Transportation,TravelEric Niiler @ 12:00 pm
At least 20 levels of security are in place to thwart both terror attacks and troublemakers in the air.

Nov 05 2010

Commercial Space Travel Rules of the Road

The FAA is beginning to look past domestic skies, planning ahead for what may be coming down the space highway over the next few years.

Sep 24 2010

Solar Plane to Stay Aloft for Five Years

Tag: Air Travel,Aircraft,Materials,Satellites,Sensors,The SunIrene Klotz @ 12:29 pm
The Solar Eagle will operate as a pseudo-satellite, soaring 65,000 feet above Earth.

Aug 23 2010

Beyond the Black Box

Instead of storing flight data on board, aircraft could easily send the information in real time to the ground.

Aug 11 2010

Superbugs Spreading From South Asia

Tag: Air Travel,Antibiotics,Asia,Bacteria,DNA,MicrobiologyDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 4:55 pm
A recently discovered gene can jump across different species of bacteria and makes infections resistant to antibiotics.

Jul 07 2010

Solar Plane Takes Off in Historic Flight

Tag: Air Travel,Aircraft,Aviation,Solar Power,The SunDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 3:15 pm
The Solar Impulse will attempt to demonstrate the value of solar energy by flying around the clock.

May 27 2010

Telescope in the Sky Makes Debut Flight

Take a ground-based telescope and put it 40,000 feet into the air. What do you have? A new way to look at the universe.

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