Technology
- World's First Hydrogen Powered Race Car Debuts
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Engineers at the University of Hertfordshire have developed the first hydrogen-powered racing car which they will race this weekend. A £5,000 grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry has made it possible for John Goddard and James Waters, two PhD students ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2007 - 9:40am
- RunBot- Mountaineering Robot
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Our bodies, and the biological brilliance built in, are able to move with elegance and efficiency using a combination of appropriate biomechanics, neuronal control, and adaptivity. Simulating that with technology has so far eluded technological advances be ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2007 - 4:46pm
- Bach Over Broadband
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A singing computer scientist wants to use cutting-edge technology to create Europe's first successful Internet choir. Dr Barry Cheetham, a senior lecturer in The School of Computer Science at The University of Manchester, is seeking to combine his aca ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2007 - 1:32pm
- Scientists Solve Checkers- Good Luck Beating This Program
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Game over. Computer scientists at the University of Alberta have solved checkers, the popular board game with a history that dates back to 3,000 B.C. After 18-and-a-half years and sifting through 500 billion billion (a five followed by 20 zeroes) checkers ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2007 - 4:03pm
- NASA Robots Practice Moon Survey In The Arctic Circle
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Two NASA robots are surveying a rocky, isolated polar desert within a crater in the Arctic Circle. The study will help scientists learn how robots could evaluate potential outposts on the moon or Mars. The robots, K10 Black and K10 Red, carry 3-D laser sca ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2007 - 10:44pm
- Rotary Engines Could Be The Next Big Thing In Aviation
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Rotary engines were developed by Wankel of Germany in the 1930s. They never really gained acceptance in the mass market, aside from Mazda in its RX-7 and later models. But a project team says they can take the Mazda rotary engine block and build an aero en ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 25 2007 - 2:23pm
- Big Antennas Need Big Transportation- Watching A Space Observatory Come Together
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The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) Project is a giant, international observatory currently in construction on the high-altitude Chajnantor site in Chile, and composed initially of 66 high-precision telescopes, operating at wavelengths ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2007 - 5:03pm
- URxD Face Recognition Software Is 3-D Security
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Taking a radically new approach to security and identity protection, University of Houston professors developed the URxD face recognition software that uses a three-dimensional snapshot of a person’s face to create a unique identifier, a biometric. Shown i ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 31 2007 - 4:09pm
- Because You Demanded It- Computer Generated Beer
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Special effects in movies have always had a problem: water drops are a consistent size. The one thing that always tips a viewer off in old movies are water drops that look huge next to scaled models. It hasn't improved much in the last 50 years. Water ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2015 - 5:48pm
- Titanium-Dioxide Nanowire "Paper" One Step Closer To Commercialization
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A two-dimensional “paper” made out of titanium-dioxide – also known as TiO2, titania and titanium white – nanowires has been developed. The nanowires have a diameter of 60 nanometers (a nanometer equals one billionth of meter) and are 30 to 40 millimeters ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2007 - 8:35pm