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Pair beat thousands to join Canada's space program
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 13, 2009 |
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A doctor and a fighter jet pilot were welcomed into the Canadian Astronaut Corps on Wednesday, beating out 5,351 applicants who underwent a year of intense evaluations.
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Spies breach Pentagon fighter-jet project: report
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Computer spies have hacked into the Pentagon's most costly weapons program, a US newspaper reported Tuesday, raising the prospect of adversaries gaining access to top-secret security data.
Design chosen for British 1,000 mph car (w/ Video)
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A British team hoping to be the first to get a car to 1,000 mph (1,610 km/h) has made its final design selection. The six-tonne car, known as the Bloodhound, will be powered by a Eurofighter ...
NASA's ENose can sense brain cancer cells
Apr 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An unlikely multidisciplinary scientific collaboration has discovered that an electronic nose developed for air quality monitoring on Space Shuttle Endeavour can also be used to detect odour differences in ...
Designing the World’s First 'Purpose-Built' Law Enforcement Vehicle
Mar 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Georgia Tech Research Institute’s (GTRI) expertise in human-factors issues helped an Atlanta-based startup company create the world’s first vehicle designed specifically to meet the patrol ...
Coal-based fuels and products hit the refinery
Aug 20, 2007 |
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A variety of end products including jet fuel, gasoline, carbon anodes and heating oil may be possible using existing refineries and combinations of coal and refinery by-products, according to a team of Penn State researchers. ...
Researchers use math to reduce jet lag
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Reducing jet lag is the aim of a new mathematical methodology and software program developed by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Michigan.
Come fly with me -- Bioengineers map a fly's nerves
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Apr 04, 2008 |
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The nerve cells in a fly’s brain dedicated to analysing visual motion have been characterised in unprecedented detail by scientists.
Lightning bolts a risk for modern jets
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Passenger jets are hit by lightning every 1,000 hours -- on average twice a year -- and experts say the risk from the bolts of electricity is growing.
Equatorial region known for massive storms
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- It's the birthplace of some of the world's strongest storms, a nearly continuous band of colliding weather systems near the equator where the Air France jet vanished in the night.
Faster Than The Speed Of Sound: New Control System Has What It Takes To Guide Experimental Aircraft
Apr 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a jet is flying faster than the speed of sound, one small mistake can tear it apart. And when the jet is so experimental that it must fly unmanned, only a computer control system can ...
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