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NASA Sends Unmanned Aircraft to Study Volcanic Plume
April 2, 2013 — Studying volcanos can be hazardous work, both for researchers and aircraft. To penetrate such dangerous airspace, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially those with electric engines that ingest ... > full story -
Finding Instead of Searching
April 2, 2013 — It is easy to lose track of things in large storage facilities but not at the wind turbine manufacturer Enercon‘s facility in Magdeburg though, where a positioning system with digital inventory ... > full story -
A Longer Life for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
April 2, 2013 — Electric cars have still got it tough in the German marketplace. They are too expensive and their range is too short. This is an opportune time for a breakthrough in efficient and low-cost ... > full story -
After Newtown: A New Use for a Weapons-Detecting Radar?
April 1, 2013 — In the aftermath of the Newtown school shooting, an engineering professor envisions a new use for a weapons-detecting radar system he's been developing for the past few ... > full story -
'Waste Heat' May Economize CO2 Capture
March 29, 2013 — Scientists have found it may be possible to use "waste" heat to remove CO2 instead of the higher pressure steam needed to make ... > full story -
Discovery Opens Door to Efficiently Storing and Reusing Renewable Energy
March 28, 2013 — Researchers have developed a ground-breaking way to make new affordable and efficient catalysts for converting electricity into chemical energy. Their technology opens the door to homeowners and ... > full story -
Opposites Attract: How Cells and Cell Fragments Move in Electric Fields
March 28, 2013 — Like tiny crawling compass needles, whole living cells and cell fragments orient and move in response to electric fields -- but in opposite directions, scientists have found. Their results could ... > full story -
Large Robotic Jellyfish Could One Day Patrol Oceans
March 28, 2013 — Researchers have unveiled Cyro, a life-like, autonomous robotic jellyfish the size and weight of a grown man, 5 foot 7 inches in length and weighing 170 ... > full story -
Manufacturing: Plasma Treatments on a Roll
March 27, 2013 — A revolutionary atmospheric-pressure plasma boosts adhesion of polymer films for roll-to-roll solar-cell production has been ... > full story -
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New Type of Solar Structure Cools Buildings in Full Sunlight
March 27, 2013 — Scientists have designed an entirely new form of cooling panel that works even when the sun is shining. Such a panel could vastly improve the daylight cooling of buildings, cars and other structures ... > full story
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