NASA Reviews Ideas for Greener Aircraft
For the past year, leading aircraft manufacturers, Lockheed Martin, The Boeing Company and Northrop Grumman, have been trying to meet NASA’s challenge and develop green…
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DARPA Seeks Researchers for PERFECT Program
DARPA is looking to further increase processing speed in their intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems and has set up a Proposers’ Day workshop to further…
Physicists Work on Nano Loudspeakers to Make Better MRIs, Quantum Computers
A research team of physicists are hoping to demonstrate through experiment their theory describing how to both detect weak electrical signals and cool electrical circuits…
Superconducting Detectors Could Help Find Gravitational Waves and Extrasolar Planets
Microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs), which can simultaneously count photons, measure their energy, and record each one’s time of arrival, could eventually replace charge-coupled devices…
Using Lasers to Cool Semiconductors
In a development that could pave the way for efficiently cooling the components of quantum computers, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have successfully used…
OptiQ Ultra Thermal Windows Reduce Energy Loss by up to 40 Percent
Traco and the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy partnered up to developed the new energy efficient OptiQ Ultra Thermal Windows. These windows…
Leaping Lizards Influence Robot Design at UC Berkeley
BERKELEY — Leaping lizards have a message for robots: Get a tail! University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers ‑ including undergraduate and graduate students…
Australia Stops Sea Shepherd From Using Drones
Back in December, Sea Shepherd was using drones to track the Japanese whaling fleet, giving them an edge in stopping illegal whaling, but now the…
Sleeping On The Job: Russian Rocket Security
As a general rule of thumb, it isn’t a good thing to be sleeping on the job; especially if you are Russian rocket security. To…
The Future Of Incandescent Bulbs Not So Bright
Although Congress defunded the January 1st bill, the federal law still exists and the incandescent light bulb may soon be a thing of the past….
Germany’s Solar Power Output Rose By 60% in 2011
Here’s a bit of good news for renewable energy from Germany. The German Solar Industry Association (BSW) says that the nation’s solar power producers have…
“Pollution Glue” May Improve London’s Air Quality
London has had an air quality problem for a long time and now they may have found a way to combat air pollution. They are…
Recordings by Alexander Graham Bell Restored 130 Years Later
We can now listen to audio-recordings made by Alexander Graham Bell 130 years ago. These audio recordings were stored at the Smithsonian Institution for over…
Anti-Whaling Activists Use Drone to Track Japanese Fleet
If you have ever watched the TV Show Whale Wars, then you know that the activists who are out there on the seas often have…
Kinect Gaming Device Used to Weigh Astronauts
Video games really can change the world and not just make kids lazy. Thanks to video games, Astronauts now have another tool to help them…
Microcapsules Make Self-Healing Electronics Possible
We live in a disposable world, where it seems like everything is designed to break and be replaced, but there are times when a break…
Tiny Game of Tetris Played Using a Laser Beam
Now this is what I call fun science. This micron-sized game of Tetris was developed by students from VU University Amsterdam, who are obviously some…
Riot Shields That Create A ‘Wall of Sound’ Patented
As they are right now, riot shields do the job of protecting police quite well, but they offer little in the way of offense. Riot…
