Tag: Airline safety
Why Virgin Atlantic’s new makeup policy is mostly concealer and gloss
Philip Hancock, University of Essex and Melissa Tyler, University of Essex
The airline Virgin Atlantic has decided that female cabin crew will no longer be...
In ‘airports of the future,’ everything new is old again
Janet Bednarek, University of Dayton
As massive new airports open across Asia and the Middle East, U.S. airports are enhancing security checkpoints with technological gadgets...
Amelia Earhart would have a hard time disappearing in 2019
Brian Strzempkowski, The Ohio State University and Shawn Pruchnicki, The Ohio State University
When Amelia Earhart took off in 1937 to fly around the world,...
Your next pilot could be drone software
Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University
Would you get on a plane that didn’t have a human pilot in the cockpit? Half of air travelers...
Why banning laptops from airplane cabins doesn’t make sense
Cassandra Burke Robertson, Case Western Reserve University and Irina D. Manta, Hofstra University
Recent reports suggest that terrorists can now create bombs so...
Is commercial aviation as safe and secure as we’re told?
Frederic Lemieux, George Washington University
On Thursday, May 19, EgyptAir flight MS804, traveling from Paris to Cairo, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea. All 66 passengers...
EXPLORING NATURE
Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already...
Ellen Welti, Smithsonian Institution
More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend...
