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Heat Shield Flight Testing and Space Industry Growth: NASA Successes

STMD Flight Opportunities Home Community of Practice Heat Shield Flight Testing and… Home About News Work with Us Access Flight Tests Flight Providers Resources Overview Community of Practice Webinars Lessons Learned Library Newsletters Reports and Fact Sheets Solicitations Archives Tech…

2026 Appendix A & B Q&A Hub

NASA SBIR/STTR Program Home Small Business Innovation… 2026 Appendix A & B… SBIR/STTR Home Opportunities Phase I Phase II Post Phase II SBIR Ignite I-Corps TABA Resources Submissions Success Stories Get In Touch   2026 Appendices 26A SBIR, 26B SBIR & 26B STTR NASA SBIR/STTR Program…

Wildlife and humans thriving in Unesco-protected sites

While wildlife populations crash globally, research finds designated areas enable recovery of threatened species Wildlife and humans are thriving within sites recognised by Unesco, research has found, allowing for the recovery of threatened species and habitats around the world. While…

Push for solar park in Sri Lanka’s elephant terrain raises concern

  HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka — As a new wave of large-scale solar energy projects take shape along the fringes of Sri Lanka’s Managed Elephant Range, or MER, in the southern district of Hambantota, activists, farmers and wildlife conservationists are opposing…

Translucent microsnail discovered in Cambodia: Photo of the week

In 2024, scientists found a tiny new-to-science translucent microsnail in a cave of Banan Hill, a limestone hill that is part of the karst ecosystem of Battambang province in western Cambodia. The snail is less than 2 millimeters (0.1 inches)…