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  Electric Drive Concepts for the Cars of the Future

  April 19, 2010 — The prospects look good that wheel hub motors will successfully become the accepted drive concept for electric vehicles. Researchers are now engineering these motors, which are integrated into the ... > full story
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  Electromobility: Fast-Tracking Innovation

  April 19, 2010 — Battery systems, chargers, wheel hub motors -- in the cars of the future, what will the components look like, and how will they interact with each other? Researchers are engineering the parts for ... > full story
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  Volcanic Eruption in Iceland Unlikely to Have Global Effects

  April 16, 2010 — The eruption of an Icelandic volcano that sent a huge plume of ash into the atmosphere and caused sweeping disruptions of air traffic over Great Britain and Scandinavia today will likely dissipate in ... > full story
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  Helicopter Helps Test Radar for 2012 Mars Landing

  April 14, 2010 — This spring, engineers are testing a radar system that will serve during the next landing on ... > full story
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  'Intelligent' Transport Project Under Way for Driverless Vehicles

  April 12, 2010 — Together with a number of European enterprises, Tecnalia Technology Corporation is taking part in the SARTRE project for the design of technology for driverless vehicle transport in convoy on fast ... > full story
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  NASA's Global Hawk Completes First Science Flight

  April 8, 2010 — NASA has successfully completed the first science flight of the Global Hawk unpiloted aircraft system over the Pacific Ocean. The flight was the first of five scheduled for this month's Global Hawk ... > full story
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  NASA Sensors Providing Rapid Estimates of Iceland Volcano Emissions

  April 8, 2010 — A NASA research team is using the latest advances in satellite artificial intelligence to speed up estimates of the heat and volume of lava escaping from an erupting volcano in ... > full story
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  Computer Program Allows Car to Stay in Its Lane Without Human Control

  April 6, 2010 — Researchers have created a computer program that allows a car to stay in its lane without human control, opening the door to the development of new automobile safety features and military ... > full story
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  NASA Demonstrates Novel Ocean-Powered Underwater Vehicle

  April 5, 2010 — NASA, U.S. Navy and university researchers have successfully demonstrated the first robotic underwater vehicle to be powered entirely by natural, renewable, ocean thermal ... > full story
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  'Lighting a Match in a Tornado' Is One of Multiple Feats for Propulsion Center

  March 31, 2010 — Walter O'Brien, director of Virginia Tech's Center for Turbomachinery and Propulsion Research, has received a patent for his design of a novel ignitor for combustion and supersonic flows, a device ... > full story

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