Melissa Etheridge recalls moment 11-year-old son came out to her as straight: 'Mom, I'm sorry' Efforts underway for second round of US-Iran talks as ships reported transiting Strait of Hormuz The only ...

In a major breakthrough, scientists have experimentally confirmed a universal growth law in two dimensions using a quantum ...

The European Union is mulling jet fuel imports from the United States and new minimum reserve quotas as it eyes options amid a supply crunch due to the Iran conflict. Despite mounting pressure on jet ...

As a person's weight goes up, all regions of the brain go down in activity and blood flow, according to a new brain imaging study. As a person's weight goes up, all regions of the brain go down in ...

Chinese scientists are moving technology that converts greenhouse gases into aviation fuel out of the laboratory and towards large-scale production. Global jet fuel prices surged to US$175 a barrel in ...

Artist's impression of the Cygnus X-1 binary system, showing how the wind of the supergiant star bends the black hole's jets away from the star as the objects move in their orbit around one another.

A problem that worries the designers of jet bombers and airliners is how to make them stop quickly enough on short or slippery runways. Propeller-driver ships merely change the angle of their ...

Fuel costs are beginning to bite the Australian aviation industry, generating fresh interest in "biofuels" produced from agricultural feedstocks as a long-term solution to supply shortages. Qantas and ...

Major airlines have warned Scots will face summer travel chaos — unless the government does more to help with the fuel crisis. Airlines UK, which represents the likes of Ryanair, British Airways, Jet2 ...