Panetta: Military Leaders Unified Behind Budget Request
WASHINGTON – Inflation-adjusted Defense Department spending will drop 20 percent from its 2010 peak, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told Congress yesterday.
Coal-Tar Sealcoat a Major Source of PAHs to Air and to Children Living Nearby
Four new reports examine the contaminants polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) found in house dust, streams, lakes, soil, and air
Madagascar: UNICEF gears up to help victims of deadly cyclone
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today that it has pre-positioned enough emergency supplies to assist 100,000 people in Madagascar, where a tropical cyclone has made landfall, bringing torrential rains and intense winds.
Shuttle Team Reflects on Permanent Power-down of Discovery, Atlantis
Space shuttle Discovery was powered up hundreds of times during prelaunch processing over the course of 26 years of spaceflight. But Dec. 16, 2011 was different. That morning, technicians inside NASA Kennedy Space Center's orbiter processing facility powered the ship up — and then down — for the final time. Less than a week later, […]