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Driver-less car in high-speed rally assault

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 3

Imagine driving at top speed on a steep, winding mountain pass in the Alps, or the Himalayas, or the Rocky Mountains.


NASA 'Drops' Next Generation Robotic Lander During Autonomous Tests

NASA 'Drops' Next Generation Robotic Lander During Autonomous Tests

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has successfully completed a series of autonomous "drop" tests of a robotic lander test article - in a record 10 months - to demonstrate the ability to perform a controlled landing on ...


Engineers Will Create Planetary Rover From Retinal Implant Test Robot

Engineers Will Create Planetary Rover From Retinal Implant Test Robot

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The research, led by Wolfgang Fink, will aid both people with visual impairments and scientists involved in planetary exploration.


Underground lines that bypass monuments

Underground lines that bypass monuments

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of mathematicians from the Engineering and Architecture Schools of the University of Seville has created a method to design underground lines whereby a city's historical buildings are unaffected. The ...


Scripps scientists to develop 'swarms' of miniature robotic ocean explorers

Scientists to develop 'swarms' of miniature robotic ocean explorers (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In an effort to plug gaps of knowledge about key ocean processes, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have been awarded nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation ...


Seeing stars, Proba-2 platform passes its first health check

Seeing stars, Proba-2 platform passes its first health check

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Into its second week in orbit, Proba-2's spacecraft platform has proven to be in excellent health. This leaves the way clear for commissioning the many new technology payloads aboard the mini-satellite, ...


As robots become more common, Stanford experts consider the legal challenges

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- They already detect and defuse bombs, control traffic patterns and do some basic household chores. And scientists predict that pretty soon, robots will be using artificial intelligence to play a larger role ...


Living buildings could mop up carbon dioxide

Living buildings could mop up carbon dioxide

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Architecture could help us tackle climate change, if we start to design our buildings with 'living' materials, according to Dr Rachel Armstrong, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.


Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss

Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid ...


Spinons -- confined like quarks

Physics / General Physics

created 10 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 0

The concept of confinement is one of the central ideas in modern physics. The most famous example is that of quarks which bind together to form protons and neutrons. Now Prof. Bella Lake from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (Germany) ...



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