NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System Aids Hurricane Forecasts
Eight briefcase-size satellites flying in a row may be key to improving forecasts of a hurricane’s wind speed – detecting whether it will make landfall…
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New System Helps Smart Devices Find Their Position in Places GPS Fails
Connected devices can now share position information, even in noisy, GPS-denied areas. A new system developed by researchers at MIT and elsewhere helps networks of…
Beyond GPS: Millimeter-Scale Location Tracking
Professor’s startup brings millimeter-scale location tracking to factories, ports, and other industrial environments using an interdisciplinary approach to accelerating human-machine collaboration. David Mindell has spent…
In Less Than 90 Minutes Raytheon’s F-35 Precision GPS Landing System Can Be Set Up Anywhere
A Raytheon Company team recently conducted a rapid set up demonstration of a land-based expeditionary version of its Joint Precision Approach and Landing System to…
Deep Space Atomic Clock Activated by NASA
An atomic clock that could pave the way for autonomous deep space travel was successfully activated last week and is ready to begin its year-long…
Tiny GPS Backpacks Uncover the Secret Life of Desert Bats
A new study from the University of Helsinki using miniaturized satellite-based tags revealed that during drier periods desert bats must fly further and longer to…
Plasma Irregularities in the Polar Ionosphere Can Distort GPS Signals
New research from scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at the University of New Brunswick looks at irregularities in the ionosphere, comparing turbulence in…
Sandy Island, The Island That Wasn’t There
A New Zealand researcher thinks that he has solved the riddle of a mysterious South Pacific island shown on Google Earth and world maps, but…
Apple Maps – 3 Times More Likely to Get You Lost Than Google
After having been deemed unsafe by the Australian government a couple of weeks back, iPhone users now have access to Google Maps and it hasn’t…
Commercial Network of Microsatellites Aims to Help Weather Prediction
Most orbiting satellites point down towards Earth, but the satellites of the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology look sideways. Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC) look towards…
Floating Robots Demonstrate Their Water Monitoring Technology
Engineers at UC Berkeley released their smartphone-equipped floating robots in the Sacramento River to field test their ability and to demonstrate their water monitoring technology….
Pigeons Ability to Hear Magnetic Fields Finally Linked to the Lagena in Inner Ear
New research has showed that the individual neurons in the brains of common pigeons could relay crucial information about the Earth’s magnetic field, potentially providing…
Proposed Thorium Neutron-Based Clock Would be Accurate for Billions of Years
Scientists are proposing the building of a hyper-accurate nuclear clock that would lose only one-tenth of a second over 14 billion years, the current age…