Converting petroleum into fuels involves crude chemistry first invented by humans in the 1800s. Meanwhile, bacteria have been producing carbon-based energy molecules for billions of years. Which do ...

[Joe Barnard] made a solid propellant rocket motor, and as one does in such situations, he put it through its paces on the test stand. The video below is not about the test, nor is it about the ...

The smell of melting plastic filled the work area of a local space company early one morning. It was the smell of recycled plastic beads being converted into solid rocket fuel grains. This is not your ...