Record monthly deficit for U.S.: $221 billion The United States dropped a record $220.9 billion further into the red in February, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday. The shortfall was up from the previous record $193.9 billion shortfall …

Revisiting Chernobyl Chernobyl. The very name strikes fear into the hearts of those who hate everything about the nuclear industry. It conjures up images of an archaic, burning industrial site spewing out lethal fumes, of farm animals dying of radiatio …

Funding the All-electric Aircraft Today, Philippe Masson of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and Center for Advanced Power Systems and colleagues at NASA and Georgia Tech publish details of an entirely new class of aircraft engine that, if it takes off, …