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Sensors Advance Lunar Landing Project
NASA is developing
technologies that will allow
lunar landers to
automatically identify and
navigate to the location of
a safe landing site while
detecting landing hazards
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New Material Could Speed Development Of Hydrogen Powered Vehicles
Researchers in Greece report
design of a new material
that almost meets the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE)
2010 goals for hydrogen
... > full story
Portable Imaging System Will Help Maximize Public Health Response To Natural Disasters
Researchers have developed a
low-cost, high-resolution
imaging system that can be
attached to a helicopter to
create a complete and
... > full story
Pterodactyl-inspired Robot To Master Air, Ground And Sea
Scientists have reached back
in time 115 million years to
one of the most successful
flying creatures in Earth's
history -- the pterodactyl
-- to conjure a robotic spy ... > full story
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New Robotic Repair System Will Fix Ailing Satellites
October 2, 2008 — Researchers are developing a new robotic system to service more than 8,000 satellites now orbiting the Earth, beyond the flight range of ground-based repair operations. Currently, when the ... > full story -
Want Better Mileage? Simple Device Which Uses Electrical Field Could Boost Gas Efficiency Up To 20%
September 26, 2008 — A simple device which attaches to a vehicles fuel line near the fuel injector and creates an electrical field could boost gas efficiency as much as 20 ... > full story -
100-year-old Engineering Problem Solved: Insights On Fluid Flow Could Impact Fuel Efficiency
September 26, 2008 — As a car accelerates up and down a hill then slows to follow a hairpin turn, the airflow around it cannot keep up and detaches from the vehicle. This aerodynamic separation creates additional drag ... > full story -
Human Or Animal Faces Associated With At Least 90 Percent Of Cars By One-third Of Population
September 24, 2008 — A new study investigated whether people ascribed certain traits to cars, as they do to human faces. One-third of the subjects associated a human or animal face with at least 90 percent of the cars. ... > full story -
Engineers Work To Clean And Improve Engine Performance
September 23, 2008 — Iowa State University's Song-Charng Kong and his students are working to reduce emissions in diesel engines, develop a computer model of a gasoline engine and optimize new engine technologies. The ... > full story -
ATV Guidelines Inadequate, Study Finds
September 23, 2008 — National size guidelines for all-terrain vehicles (ATV) are inadequate to ensure the safety of young riders, according to preliminary results from a study by researchers at the University of ... > full story -
Shake, Rattle And Roll: James Webb Telescope Components Pass Tests
September 23, 2008 — You might think that shaking and freezing a state-of-the-art, meticulously crafted machine is a bad idea. But when it comes to firing telescopes and their instruments into the frigid cold of space, ... > full story -
Self-steering Vehicle Designed To Mimic Movements Of Ants
September 22, 2008 — A team of engineers in the Canary Islands has designed the “Verdino”, a self-steering vehicle that can sense the road surface using a technique called Ant Colony Optimisation. This method ... > full story -
Road Crossing Structures Important In Reduction Of Animal Mortality On Roads
September 19, 2008 — Spanish highways are increasingly incorporating walkways specially designed for wild animals, or mixed use structures designed for other purposes, which connect wildlife from one side of the road to ... > full story -
Innovative Hydrogen-powered Car Created
September 17, 2008 — As the price of gasoline fuel soars, and concerns grow about the impact of car culture on the environment, a team of scientists have come up with a hydrogen-powered car, which they believe is a ... > full story
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