Dec 6, 2010
Unmanned Aerial vehicles could fly for longer using less power if they copied the counter-intuitive flying patterns of peregrine falcons, say researchers
Nov 26, 2010
"They are at the very edge of current U.S. technological capabilities; one is a supposedly mothballed technology test-bed, the other a super-secret space plane that is currently on orbit -- but set to land soon. They are the X-planes, experimental spacecraft that are proving out concepts and capabilities whose beginnings can be traced to the dawn of the space age."
Nov 13, 2010
"Inflatable craft have played an important role in space from the very beginning."
Nov 9, 2010
"Mars sample return -- bringing rocks from Mars back to Earth -- has been on NASA's wish list for decades, and work is underway to develop the necessary technology. Recently a group of scientists field-tested a robotic system that can drill into rocks, collect small core samples and store them for later retrieval."
Nov 8, 2010
"A new study investigated how astronauts' bones compare to those of Earthbound folks over time, and the results are not encouraging for space travelers."
Oct 31, 2010
"It's sixteen years since Miguel Alcubierre suggested that faster-than-light travel might be achieved by generating a warp bubble that contracts space-time ahead of the spaceship and expands it behind. Now a metamaterial test laboratory is available to see if this idea really could work."
Oct 28, 2010
"Though a new, hopping spacecraft was designed with a
Sep 27, 2010
"Six wannabe Martians are are taking life on Mars for a test drive here on Earth. In a small cylindrical building in the Utah desert, the would-be space explorers live every moment as if they were the first human outpost on the red planet."
Sep 23, 2010
"Aviation history was made when the University of Toronto's human-powered aircraft with flapping wings became the first of its kind to fly continuously."
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