Posted June 19, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
Four tiny spacecraft soared over the California desert June 15 in a high-altitude demonstration flight that tested the sensor and equipment designs created by NASA engineers and student launch teams.
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Posted June 18, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
Researchers working to design new materials that are durable, lightweight and environmentally sustainable are increasingly looking to natural composites, such as bone, for inspiration: Bone is strong ...
Posted June 17, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
In the near future, a buzz in your belt or a pulse from your jacket may give you instructions on how to navigate your surroundings.
Think of it as tactile Morse code: vibrations from a wearable, GPS-l...
Posted June 14, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
Cheaper clean-energy technologies could be made possible thanks to a new discovery. Led by Raymond Schaak, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, research team members have found that an i...
Posted June 13, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
When you squeeze something, it gets smaller. Unless you’re at Argonne National Laboratory.
At the suburban Chicago laboratory, a group of scientists has seemingly defied the laws of physics and ...
Posted June 12, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
Hours spent at the video gaming console not only train a player’s hands to work the buttons on the controller, they probably also train the brain to make better and faster use of visual input, a...
Posted June 12, 2013 by Zen Kishimoto in News
This blog is for ICT people and not for electric power people. Therefore, please bear with a short description to set the stage before I continue.
The power industry is in the midst of a revolution br...
Posted June 11, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
Researchers from the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) and the Department of Physics of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have studied the spread of radioactive stro...
Posted June 10, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
Nanotechnologies require a detailed knowledge of the molecular state. For instance, it is useful to know when and how a generic polymer, a long chain of polymers (chain of beads), knots. The study of ...
Posted June 7, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
Stanford scientists have identified key acoustic characteristics of the 2011 Japan earthquake that indicated it would cause a large tsunami. The technique could be applied worldwide to create an early...
Posted June 6, 2013 by Zen Kishimoto in News
Analytics is everywhere; at least, people talk and write about it in conjunction with Big Data. But analytics is always discussed at a very high level, omitting the details. Discussions tend to stay a...
Posted June 6, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
A NASA team delivered in May a sophisticated microwave radiometer specifically designed to overcome the pitfalls that have plagued similar Earth-observing instruments in the past.
This is an artist co...
Posted June 5, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
A remote controlled helicopter has been flown through a series of hoops around a college gymnasium in Minnesota.
A remote controlled helicopter has been flown through a series of hoops around a colleg...
Posted June 4, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
In 2012, Nicholas Fisher a distinguished professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University and postdoctoral scholar Zosia Baumann, working with a colleague a...
Posted June 3, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, recently performed wind tunnel testing of its CST-100 spacecraft and integrated launch vehicle, the United Launch Alliance ...
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