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A novel warp drive concept that can function without any need for hypothesized exotic or negative forms of energy has been unveiled in a groundbreaking new study by leading propulsion researchers. Dubbed the “Constant-Velocity Subluminal Warp Drive,” the concept, developed by physicists with the Advanced Propulsion Laboratory at the New York-based think tank Applied Physics and from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, offers a theoretical new means of propulsion for space travel that conforms to general relativity, allowing it to operate at constant subluminal speeds with no need for unphysical forms of matter outlined in past concepts. According to...

ST. LOUIS • A St. Louis native stuck in Dubai for months awaiting trial on gun smuggling charges said he was acquitted today on all counts. Steve Dolan, 57, a Dubai-based vice president for international shipping firm APL, said he faced up to 50 years behind bars after authorities told him they found some 30,000 knock-off pistols in a shipping container last fall. The container, which also held liquid soap, was apparently switching ships in Dubai while en route from Turkey to Djibouti.

President Bush on Friday picked physicist Michael Griffin to lead NASA as it prepares to resume space shuttle flights and tries to meet the White House goal of sending astronauts back to the moon in the decade ahead. If confirmed by the Senate, Griffin would become the space agency's 11th administrator. Members of Congress immediately praised the president's choice, as did John Logsdon, director of George Washington University's space policy institute. "I've known Mike for a long time and have a great deal of respect for him as a kind of innovative thinker, real enthusiast full of energy," Logsdon said....

<p>Injuries to adults and children playing paintball have tripled in recent years, including eye damage causing lasting vision loss, a study found.</p> <p>From 1997 to 2000, paintball-related injuries nationwide climbed from 926 to 2,780, with up to a third occurring in children younger than 15, according to the study, which analyzed injury data from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.</p>

Government warns paintball gun users while it investigates two deaths ASSOCIATED PRESS 11:14 a.m. March 24, 2004 WASHINGTON – The government issued sharp warnings on Wednesday to paintball gun users, announcing new safety measures while investigations continue into two deaths caused by canisters flying off the guns. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said both deaths occurred after brass valves unscrewed from the pressurized carbon dioxide canisters on the guns, which turned the canisters into projectiles. In June 2003, a 15-year-old boy from Washington state died after the canister he was removing struck him in the head, the commission said. In...

December 29 Short Trip for Mercury Probe A NASA spacecraft destined for Mercury has made its first trip, a 20-mile (32-kilometer) trek that pales before the eventual five-year voyage it is expected to make on the way to its target planet. After almost four years of design, assembly and testing, researchers with the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland shipped its Messenger spacecraft to the environmental testing facilities at NASA's nearby Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. There, spacecraft is undergoing about 10 weeks of shakedown tests that will check its balance and alignment, simulate...

Full Impact Of Contour Mission Destruction Remains To Be Seen by Bruce Moomaw Los Angeles - Aug 26, 2002 The loss of the Contour comet probe will soon put the investigative spotlight on the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland as a NASA appointed panel seeks to find out what went wrong with the 180 million dollar probe as it fired its main engine to leave Earth orbit on August 15. In recent years, as APL has shift from a dependency on naval research contracts, the lab has sought to carve out a new role...