
Launch Vehicle Rocket Engines
Many innovators have proposed a variety of concepts that might propel a launch vehicle from Earth to orbit. However, only two basic types of rocket engines have survived the test of fire: Solid prop ... more
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NASA to test supersonic parachute in flying saucer launch
The US space agency plans to try out the largest parachute ever deployed Wednesday during a flying saucer launch that will test new technologies for landing on Mars. ... more
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Left-leaning PM Albanese triumphs in Australian election
US researchers seek to legitimize AI mental health care
'No dumping ground': Tunisia activist wins award over waste scandal
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New 'designer carbon' from Stanford boosts battery performance
Stanford University scientists have created a new carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. Their results are featured on the cover of the journal ACS ... more
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Visualizing how radiation bombardment boosts superconductivity
Sometimes a little damage can do a lot of good - at least in the case of iron-based high-temperature superconductors. Bombarding these materials with high-energy heavy ions introduces nanometer-scal ... more
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NASA pushes flying saucer parachute test to Thursday
High waves forced NASA to postpone until Thursday the first test of the largest parachute ever deployed, during a flying saucer launch that will try out new technologies for landing on Mars. ... more
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NASA Tests Aircraft Wing Coatings that Slough Bug Guts
Bug guts create drag, and drag increases fuel consumption. But aircraft of the future could be made more fuel-efficient with non-stick coatings NASA recently tested on Boeing's ecoDemonstrator 757. ... more
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Helping robots put it all together
Today's industrial robots are remarkably efficient - as long as they're in a controlled environment where everything is exactly where they expect it to be.
But put them in an unfamiliar settin ... more
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