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Deep-Sea Oil Rigs Inspire Designs For Giant Wind Turbines
September 12, 2006 — An MIT researcher has a vision: Four hundred huge offshore wind turbines are providing onshore customers with enough electricity to power several hundred thousand homes, and nobody standing onshore ... > full story -
Cluster Makes An Effervescent Discovery: Space Fizzing With Thousands Of Bubbles Of Superheated Gas
June 20, 2006 — Space is fizzing. Above our heads, where the Earth's magnetic field meets the constant stream of gas from the Sun, thousands of bubbles of superheated gas are constantly growing and ... > full story -
Compact Tidal Generator Could Reduce The Cost Of Producing Electricity From Flowing Water
June 14, 2006 — What happens if you run an electric motor backwards? That is exactly what researchers Dr Steve Turnock and Dr Suleiman Abu-Sharkh from the University of Southampton asked themselves after they had ... > full story -
Chasing Tornado Data To Engineer Better Buildings
June 5, 2006 — Iowa State University researchers and students will soon be chasing tornado data in the lab and across tornado alley. It's all part of a research project designed to increase scientists' basic ... > full story -
Cluster Satellites Fly Through Earth's Electrical Switch
May 19, 2006 — The European Space Agency's Cluster satellites have flown through regions of the Earth's magnetic field that accelerate electrons to approximately one hundredth the speed of light. The observations ... > full story -
Aerospace Engineers To Test Energy-Efficient Wing Design
March 22, 2006 — Aerospace engineers from Texas A&M University's Flight Research Laboratory are in Kansas this week testing a new design for an energy-efficient aircraft wing. The researchers are testing a design ... > full story -
Strong Storms Linked With Rising Sea Surface Temperatures
March 16, 2006 — Anew study strengthens the link between the increase in hurricane intensity and the increase in tropical sea surface temperature. It found that while factors such as wind shear do affect the ... > full story -
'Deep Impact' Of Pulsar Around Companion Star
February 28, 2006 — Astronomers have witnessed a never-seen-before event in observations by ESA’s XMM-Newton spacecraft - a collision between a pulsar and a ring of gas around a neighbouring star. The rare ... > full story -
Satellites See Largest Jet Of Particles Created Between Sun And Earth
January 13, 2006 — A flotilla of space-weather satellites – ESA’s Cluster and NASA’s ACE and Wind - observed for the first time steady large-scale jets of charged particles in the solar wind between ... > full story -
'Quiet' Mach 6 Wind Tunnel At Purdue Helps Shape Future Aircraft
January 6, 2006 — Purdue University engineers have developed a wind tunnel that is the only one of its kind in the world capable of running quietly at "hypersonic" speeds, helping researchers to design advanced ... > full story
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