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Pieces Coming Together for First Test Launch of NASA's New Spacecraft

Pieces Coming Together for First Test Launch of NASA's New Spacecraft

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is using powerful computers and software programs to design the rocket that will carry crew and cargo to space after the space shuttle retires. But those computers will have their work ...





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A special kind of flight training

A special kind of flight training

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of flight simulators will attempt to make air traffic safer.


Testbeds to breed next-generation systems

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The systems that let you zap a photo to a friend, or an astronomer to control a telescope continents away, require intensive simulation and testing. Research has now made those key steps far easier.


Gesture recognition

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A system that can recognize human gestures could provide a new way for people with physical disabilities to interact with computers. A related system for the able bodied could also be used to make virtual worlds more realistic. ...


Using a Superfluid for Dark-State Atomic Cooling

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 11, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 0

“We are reviving key ideas used 15 years ago in the context of laser cooling and quantum optics and putting them in a completely new context,” Peter Zoller tells PhysOrg.com. Zoller, a professor at the University of Innsbr ...


Real and virtual pendulums swing as one in mixed reality state

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 3

Using a virtual pendulum and its real-world counterpart, scientists at the University of Illinois have created the first mixed reality state in a physical system. Through bidirectional instantaneous coupling, each pendulum ...


One virtual step for man, one real leap for mankind

One virtual step for man, one real leap for mankind

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 11, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (51) | comments 6

Imagine being able to take a step back in time and walk through the streets of ancient Pompeii hours before the eruption of Vesuvius. In April 2008, European researchers will demonstrate that walking through ...


New system trains good grid operators with bad data

Technology / Software

created Jun 22, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Power grid operators now have the ability to train like pilots, with simulators providing faulty readings designed to throw them off. Such misleading data and resulting loss of "situational awareness" was identified as a ...


'Chatter Box' computer will unravel the science of language

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 12, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists are to use a powerful super computer to mimic the part of the brain that controls speech and language function to better understand what goes wrong after brain damage caused by trauma or stroke.


Investigating new materials with ultracold atoms

Investigating new materials with ultracold atoms

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 1

The investigation of complex materials such as high-temperature superconductors is problematic because of the presence of disorder and many competing interactions in real crystalline materials. "This makes ...


Customized telemetry system for the James Webb Space Telescope successful

Customized telemetry system for the James Webb Space Telescope successful

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 15, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Once it launches in 2013, the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to communicate with the Earth thanks to a customized and modified "off-the-shelf" system that has been recently and successfully tested ...



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