A new study from Altitude by Geotab ranked Denver and Chicago as the most freight-efficient cities in the United States, ...

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New report finds gaps in drone identification, oversight, and mitigation. Here’s what researchers found, and what it means.

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Each year, more than 700 million large insects—comparable in size to houseflies or larger—quietly traverse the skies of northern Israel, navigating across a narrow geographic bottleneck known ...

Low-altitude NASA flights to be made over Philly area this week. Here's why It's not a bird, but it is a plane! NASA is expected to make low-altitude flights over Philadelphia this week.

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The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has collected body size data for more than 85,000 marine animal species and ...

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