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NASA Wants to Create a Quiet Supersonic A... Officials with the American space agency say that they plan to use a small, unmanned drone to conduct a series of tests on how aircraft behave when they pass the sound barrier. This effort could lead to the reintroduction o... [read more >>] MIT Team Develops Supersonic Aircraft Ever since the Concorde was retired from active service, in 2003, passengers have been left without access to a supersonic aircraft capable of covering a distance such as that between New York and Paris in just three hours.... [read more >>] Robotic Dogs Will Sense Your Emotions Thro... University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers are currently working on a way to integrate advanced biometric sensors into the fur covering robotic pets. They say that this will help the synthetic animals sense the moods ... [read more >>] Invisibility Cloaks Could Hide Ships from Wa... Scientist Mohammad-Reza Alam predicts that it may be possible to create an invisibility cloak capable of concealing ships, oil platforms, and other man-made structures, from the fury of rough seas. This is the first time su... [read more >>] Railguns Could Soon Get Pulse Power Capabil... At this point, railguns are among the most devastating long-range weapons that can be deployed to the battlefield. Experts at the US Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR) want to make them even more effective, by having them ... [read more >>] Plugging Soldiers' Minds Directly into Weapons Scientists say that the next step in modern warfare will be to augment the minds of soldiers taking the battlefield, so that they are able to interface with their weapons directly. What this means is that the warfighters wi... [read more >>] Self-Guided Bullet Is Accurate Up to a Mil... A team of experts at the DOE Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) have announced the development of a prototype bullet that can guide itself towards a target located up to a mile (1.6 kilometers) away. The entire design is ba... [read more >>] Perpetual Calendar That Makes Time Stand S... Using a combination of mathematical formulas and advanced computer programs, researchers Richard Conn Henry and Steve H. Hanke recently developed a calendar that basically makes time stand still. The new way of organizing t... [read more >>] Computers Can Predict the Next Hit Song Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed state-of-the-art algorithms that allow a specialized software to detect if a song will become a hit. The discovery has already drawn massive interest from worldwide me... [read more >>] Top 10 Fastest Cars in the World 2011 Compiling a list of the world's fastest cars is not an easy task, considering that many people already have their established preferences about which car deserves to occupy a spot in the top. Some of these vehicles are... [read more >>]

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