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Stories about: NCSU

Wind-Driven, Tumbleweed-Shaped Rover Could Explore Mars Exploring the Red Planet using standard robots is a fairly tricky task, primarily because of terrain limitations. By definition, rovers are very sensitive pieces of high-tech equipment, and they need to be looked after all the time. But what if a new machine would actually thrive in harsh terrain? This is a scenario... 24 May 2012 05:48 GMT Scientists Create Soft Memory that Works in Water Water and technology normally don't mix well, to put it lightly, but a group of researchers managed to turn the table on this fact and develop a memory device that actually works very well in wet environments.As end-users know, the easiest way to destroy an electronic of any kind is to pour some water on it in ... 15 July 2011 05:03 GMT New Research Finds Optimal Fiber Optics Connections 10,000 Faster Finding the best and fastest fiber optic cable route is a process that, at times, can take days, but a team of researchers from the North Carolina State University came up with a way to speed things up by 10,000 times.Phone calls, website visits and any other sort of online access relies on data being sent in the fo... 29 June 2011 09:14 GMT