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  New Model to Improve Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication for 'Intelligent Transportation'

  July 16, 2013 — Imagine a transportation system where vehicles communicate directly with each other in real time, giving drivers warnings about traffic delays, allowing a single driver to control multiple vehicles ... > full story
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  NASA's Polar Robotic Ranger Passes First Greenland Test

  July 8, 2013 — Defying 30 mph gusts and temperatures down to minus 22 F, NASA's new polar rover recently demonstrated in Greenland that it could operate completely autonomously in one of Earth's harshest ... > full story
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  Muscle Power: Bats Power Take-Off Using Recycled Energy

  July 5, 2013 — Bats are uniquely able to stretch and store energy in their bicep and tricep tendons during take-off and climbing flight, giving them an extra power boost. A new study on fruitbats used cutting edge ... > full story
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  NASA Launches Satellite to Study How Sun's Atmosphere Is Energized

  June 28, 2013 — NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched Thursday at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The mission to study the solar atmosphere was ... > full story
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  Avengers-Style Helicarrier Is Still Pie in the Sky

  June 28, 2013 — Physics students calculate the four-propeller powered giant aircraft seen in the Avengers would not be possible with modern ... > full story
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  New Flame Trench Will Support New Era at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B

  June 27, 2013 — For the first time since NASA's Apollo-era rockets and space shuttles lifted off on missions from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one of the launch pads is undergoing extensive ... > full story
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  Realistic Robot Carp Created: First Robot Fish With Autonomous 3-D Movement in Asia

  June 26, 2013 — Scientists have developed a robot fish that mimics the movements of a carp. This robot which is essentially an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is ready for applications, as it can be programmed ... > full story
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  New Survey Shows Widespread Opposition to ‘killer Robots,' Support for New Ban Campaign

  June 19, 2013 — The results of a new survey show that a majority of Americans across the political spectrum oppose the outsourcing of lethal military and defense targeting decisions to machines. The opposition to ... > full story
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  New Solar Car Has Sleek, Asymmetrical Design

  June 19, 2013 — The lopsided solar car named Generation, unveiled today, might be the oddest-looking vehicle the University of Michigan team has ever built. But the bold shape is a calculated effort to design the ... > full story
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  Small Satellites Soar in High-Altitude Demonstration

  June 18, 2013 — 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 ... > full story

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