The capillary-based pulsed plasma thruster (PPT) has high-energy transfer efficiency, which provides potential to improve traditional PPT performance. In this paper, the discharge characteristics of a ...

As Baltimore swelters under extreme heat this week, the city is making adjustments to trash and recycling collection to keep workers safe, but said pickups will continue as scheduled. The changes come ...

Overnight lows can be a particularly dangerous part of a heat wave, said Ashley Ward, director of the Heat Policy Innovation Hub at Duke University. “Your body needs a reprieve,” she said.

This heat wave is part of a broader rise in temperatures that is projected to impact as many as 170 million people in the central and eastern United States, according to AccuWeather.

Debra “Sharon” Sine Caudill, 72, of Wilkesboro died Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. She was born Aug. 4, 1952. in Braddock, ...

Another wave of Iranian missiles has set off air-raid sirens across Israel, including in Tel Aviv, according to the Israeli military. In Jerusalem, booms were heard overhead, rattling windows.

THE Senate adjourned sine die on Wednesday evening after graduating senators and Senate officers delivered their valedictory speeches, marking the end of the third regular session of the 19th Congress ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission unveiled a slate of senior leadership appointments earlier today, a move seen as sharpening the agency’s focus on regulatory enforcement, market ...

These included the bicameral conference committee reports on the Enhanced Fiscal Regime for Large-Scale Metallic Mining Act and the Accelerated and Reformed Right-of-Way (ARROW) Act, which were both ...