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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 discover a way to significantly reduce the production costs of fuel cells

Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have developed a new and significantly cheaper method of manufacturing fuel cells. A noble metal nanoparticle catalyst for fuel cells is prepared using atomic layer ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Technologies for the city of tomorrow -- Morgenstadt

A city that obtains its power from renewable resources, where electric cars move quietly along the streets and which emits almost no carbon dioxide - German federal minister Mrs. Schavan and the president of Fraunhofer, Hans-Jorg ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blooming ocean fronts

Each spring, huge patches of phytoplankton bloom in the oceans, turning cold, blue waters into teeming green pools of microbial life. This ocean “greening,” which can be seen from space, mirrors ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

US Army purchases robotic scouts (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- By being the first to scout out an unknown building or peek over a wall, a small dumbbell-shaped robot will be taking over some of the riskiest tasks in the US Army. The robot’s maker, ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 15 | with audio podcast weblog

Electromobility: new components going for a test run

The future belongs to electrical cars – that’s what most experts think. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of problems that have not been solved. This is the reason why researchers at 33 Fraunhofer ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Green Flight Challenge teams successfully fly over first round of competition hurdles

The Green Flight Challenge sponsored by Google has taken off! The competition in Santa Rosa, Calif., is challenging, pushing the envelope in aviation technology. As a result, only three of the 13 original ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Volt: GM's car of the future?

The Chevrolet Volt is many things: an attention grabber, a potential cure for an oil dependent nation - the list goes on.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (7) | comments 17

Car-sharing introducing Canadians to electric vehicles

In a Montreal parking lot, Jean-Francois Beauchamp unhooks a power cable from his loaner car and cheerfully drives away, an enthusiastic user of a new service that is finding fans in equal measure among commuters ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shows that vehicle-to-vehicle navigation systems really do work

(PhysOrg.com) -- Traffic congestion is not only annoying, it’s expensive. In 2005, traffic congestion cost an estimated $78.2 billion in 437 urban areas in the US, according to the Texas Transportation ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 15 | with audio podcast feature


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