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Aero-engineers debut open-source fluid dynamics design application

Each fall at technical universities across the world, a new crop of aeronautical and astronautical engineering graduate students settle in for the work that will consume them for the next several years. For many, their first ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers devise new means for creating elastic conductors

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new method for creating elastic conductors made of carbon nanotubes, which will contribute to large-scale production of the material for use ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study: One-quarter of high-tech jobs lost from US in decade

More than a quarter of the nation's high-tech manufacturing jobs were lost in the past decade, according to a new government study.

Technology / Business

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New research to help safer emergency aircraft landings

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) aviation researchers are developing an information system to help Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) make safer emergency landings and better enable their wider commercial use.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

'Painless' plasma brush is becoming reality in dentistry, engineers say

University of Missouri engineers and their research collaborators at Nanova, Inc. are one step closer to a painless way to replace fillings. After favorable results in the lab, human clinical trials are underway ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 8

Infrared technology for measuring the effect of fire on materials

Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid are developing an infrared measuring method to analyze the thermal properties and resistance to fire of composite materials. This advance would have applications ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA, industry leaders discuss new booster development for space launch system

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Dec. 15, more than 120 aerospace industry leaders from more than 70 companies attended the Space Launch System's Advanced Booster Industry Day held at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Iowa State engineers study how hills, nearby turbines affect wind energy production

Hui Hu pulled a model wind turbine from the top of an office filing cabinet.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chemically scrubbing CO2 from the air too expensive

(PhysOrg.com) -- While it is possible to chemically scrub carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere in order to lessen the severity of global warming, the process is prohibitively expensive for now. Best to focus ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 63 | with audio podcast

Structured English brings robots closer to everyday users

(PhysOrg.com) -- Move over, Jetsons. A humanoid robot named Mae is traipsing around Cornell's Autonomous Systems Lab, guided by plain-English instructions and sometimes even appearing to get frustrated.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Wind experts advise on revolutionary wind-powered skyscraper

The infamous winds that gust through downtown San Francisco streets, overturning kiosks and sometimes toppling pedestrians, will help to power a revolutionary skyscraper set to open next fall -- and could ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

UC aerial robot system can save firefighter lives

Wildfires kill and, too often, fatalities are caused by a lack of situational awareness, said Kelly Cohen. Timely information can prevent wildfire deaths, especially among first responders, said Cohen, associate ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Benefits of future space program are intangible

(PhysOrg.com) -- As someone deeply involved in the American aerospace industry since its inception in the late 1950s, Norman Augustine says that the United States may need a "jolt" similar to the 1958 launching of the Russian ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 7

Student-built satellite to prepare NASA instrument

(PhysOrg.com) -- When the M-Cubed satellite, built by University of Michigan students, goes into orbit, it will become the first CubeSat to test a NASA instrument for major space missions. It is scheduled ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NRL launches TacSat-4 to augment communications needs

The Navy's Tactical Satellite-IV (TacSat-4) successfully launched Sept. 27 aboard an Orbital Sciences Minotaur-IV+ launch vehicle from Alaska Aerospace Corporation's (AAC) Kodiak Launch Complex, Kodiak Island, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Aerospace

Aerospace comprises the atmosphere of Earth and surrounding space. Typically the term is used to refer to the industry that researches, designs, manufactures, operates, and maintains vehicles moving through air and space. Aerospace is a very diverse field, with a multitude of commercial, industrial and military applications.

Aerospace is not the same as airspace, which is a term used to describe the physical air space directly above a location on the ground. "Aerospace" can be understood as the combination of aeronautics and astronautics.

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