WASHINGTON, May 6 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * NASA Ends Super Pressure Balloon Flight After 17 Days The first flight of NASA's 2025 New Zealand Super Pressure Balloon Campaign was safely terminated at 7:46 a.m. Sunday, May 4 (in U.S. Eastern Time) after 17 days, 13 hours, and 47 minutes in flight around the Southern Hemisphere's mid-latitude band. Flight controllers at the agency's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, conducted a controlled flight te  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 5 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Subtle edits yield big results in microbes Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Colorado Boulder used a gene-silencing tool and a large library of molecular guides to understand how photosynthetic bacteria adapt to light and temperature changes. They found that even partial suppression of certain genes yielded big benefits in modify  more