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  Birds, Bats And Insects Hold Secrets For Aerospace Engineers

  February 4, 2008 — Natural flyers like birds, bats and insects outperform man-made aircraft in aerobatics and efficiency. Engineers are studying these animals as a step toward designing flapping-wing planes with ... > full story
• Sun
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  Mercury's Magnetosphere Fends Off Solar Wind

  January 30, 2008 — The planet Mercury's magnetic field appears to be strong enough to fend off the harsh solar wind from most of its surface, according to new data from NASA's Messenger ... > full story
• Mars
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  Dramatic Wind Action Detailed On Mars

  January 24, 2008 — Mars has an ethereal, tenuous atmosphere with less than one-percent the surface pressure of Earth, which challenges scientists to explain complex, wind-sculpted landforms seen with unprecedented ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Warmer Ocean Could Reduce Number Of Atlantic Hurricane Landfalls

  January 24, 2008 — A warming global ocean -- influencing the winds that shear off the tops of developing storms -- could mean fewer Atlantic hurricanes striking the United States according to new findings by NOAA ... > full story
• Sun
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  Ulysses Spacecraft Flies Over Sun's North Pole

  January 23, 2008 — The Ulysses spacecraft today is making a rare flyby of the sun's north pole. Unlike any other spacecraft, Ulysses is able to sample winds at the sun's poles, which are difficult to study from Earth. ... > full story
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  Purdue Wind Tunnel Key For 'Hypersonic Vehicles,' Future Space Planes

  January 2, 2008 — By using the only wind tunnel capable of running quietly at "hypersonic" speeds, Purdue University engineers have conducted experiments to yield critical data for designing an advanced aircraft ... > full story
• Wind Energy
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  How Windproof Are Cable Cars?

  December 16, 2007 — A measuring system deals with the question as to the effects different wind loads have on cable cars. Two researchers have thrown light on vibration-control problems, an area little researched up to ... > full story
• Wind Energy
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  Environmental Science
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  Air Pollution
   
  

  Wind Turbines Produce 'Green' Energy And Airflow Mysteries

  December 15, 2007 — Using smoke, laser light, model airplane propellers and a campus wind tunnel, researchers are trying to solve the airflow mysteries that surround wind turbines, an increasingly popular source of ... > full story
• Wind Energy
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  Wind Power Explored Off California's Coast

  December 12, 2007 — Researchers have completed the first detailed study ever done to assess the potential for building wind farms offshore along the California ... > full story
• Sun
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  Voyager 2 Proves Solar System Is Squashed

  December 10, 2007 — NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed its twin Voyager 1 into the solar system's final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas ... > full story

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