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New robots mimic fish's swimming

New robots mimic fish's swimming (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real thing, if not quite as fast.


The Abyss: Deepest Part of the Oceans No Longer Hidden

The Abyss: Deepest Part of the Oceans No Longer Hidden

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Abyss is a dark, deep place, but it's no longer hidden. At least when Nereus is on the scene. Nereus is a new type of deep-sea robotic vehicle, called a hybrid remotely operated vehicle ...


Hybrid remotely operated vehicle 'Nereus' reaches deepest part of the ocean

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 5

A new type of deep-sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has successfully reached the deepest part of the world's ocean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientists aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana. The dive to 10,902 ...


Vehicles that drive themselves

Technology / Engineering

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 5

The thought of a car or truck that can drive itself is at once both exciting and frightening. Autonomous vehicle navigation, as the technology is known, may make life more convenient if it allows people to kick back and enjoy ...





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NASA Aircraft Flies Calif. Wildfire Post-Burn Mission

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's remotely piloted Predator B aircraft, named Ikhana, recently conducted post-burn assessments of two Southern California wildfire sites, the Piute Fire in Kern County and the Station Fire in the Angeles ...


Redback spiders were first spotted in Japan in 1995

Venomous Aussie redback spiders invading Japan

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Australia's venomous redback spiders are on the march in Japan, where they are believed to have arrived years ago as stowaways on cargo ships, a wildlife expert warned Wednesday.


Software takes a hard look at traffic fatalities

Technology / Software

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bergen County Police and a Hackensack, N.J., drug treatment center are among a growing number of agencies using a software program to identify dangerous intersections, spot teen driving trends and reduce accident fatalities.


Kepler Mission Manager Update

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Kepler experienced a safe mode event on Nov. 18, 2009.


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 ...


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 ...


New Method to Measure Snow, Soil Moisture With GPS May Benefit Meteorologists, Farmers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected ...


Flax and yellow flowers can produce bioethanol

Flax and yellow flowers can produce bioethanol

Technology / Energy

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Surplus biomass from the production of flax shives, and generated from Brassica carinata, a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf fields in spring, can be used to produce bioethanol. This has be ...


Recession may be over, but recovery will be gradual

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the severe national recession of the past two years finally behind us, the pace of economic recovery will be slow and unemployment will remain high for quite some time, say economists at the University ...


Poverty measurement in the US: Income transfers alone won't eradicate poverty

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Barack Obama promised to halve poverty within ten years. His Republican opponent, John McCain, vowed to "make the eradication of poverty a top priority of the McCain Administration." Even in the current economic situation, ...



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