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Metamaterials could reduce friction in nanomachines

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

3 hours ago | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanoscale machines expected to have wide application in industry, energy, medicine and other fields may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to important theoretical discoveries concerning the manipulation ...

NRL's MISSE7 launched aboard STS-129

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

3 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

The Materials on the International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) 7, designed and built by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), launched aboard STS-129 on November, 16, for transport to the International ...

Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

7 hours ago | 5 / 5 (7) | 1

(AP) -- A spacecraft designed to rocket wealthy tourists into space as early as 2011 was unveiled Monday in what backers of the venture hope will signal a new era in aviation history.

Milling and drilling in cyberspace

Technology / Engineering

7 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

Machinists, NC programmers or mechatronics engineers -- trainees in engineering jobs often have to master complex equipment. In the future, trainees will practice and learn milling, turning, drilling and programming ...

Rethinking artificial intelligence: Researchers hope to produce 'co-processors' for the human mind

Technology / Computer Sciences

9 hours ago | 4.8 / 5 (12) | 5

The field of artificial-intelligence research (AI), founded more than 50 years ago, seems to many researchers to have spent much of that time wandering in the wilderness, swapping hugely ambitious goals for ...

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