Only a couple of months ago did astronomers manage to discover a new member of the triple-asteroid class, when they realized that the Near-Earth Object (NEO) known as 1994 CC actually was made up of three pieces. In addition to the central rock, which is the largest of them all, two other bodies, with much smaller di... |
10 August 2009
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On Saturday, April 4th, the University of Oklahoma has inaugurated its newest and most capable radar system, entitled OU-PRIME (Polarimetric Radar for Innovations in Meteorology and Engineering), a machine that is expected to allow the learning institution to continue its role as a leader in the area of weather-relat... |
6 April 2009
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Over the years, flying on a large scale has become a lot safer due to continuous improvements added to the aircraft itself, to the control terminal or to the airport terminal. Passengers could finally afford to fly to their destinations on a regular basis only after the introduction of some improvements to the flight... |
6 October 2008
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What would a wheelchair-bound German amateur inventor be doing in the United Arab Emirates desert? Grow specially bred worms and create radar-evading paints for the military of course. Wener Nickel, age 67, went to the United Arab Emirates to conduct a project involving worms that produced excrements in which radishe... |
8 May 2008
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The MARSIS instrument, or the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding instrument, on board Europe's Mars Express probe was originally designed to look for water beneath the Red Planet's surface but could also easily penetrate the ice sheet covering Jupiter's moon Europa or the surfac... |
7 May 2008
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If you think a little bump can ruin your day, think again. A side-impact can ruin your life! Side-impacts are probably the most dangerous types of car crash, mostly due to the fact that the sides of the cars are the least protected areas. That's why European researchers are now trying to develop a car body that ... |
17 March 2008
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Indeed there is. Warships may seem rather powerful, but this showoff of sheer power would not be very efficient against people that don't give a penny on looks. What the modern warfare needs is invisibility. You might have noticed the trend followed by a series of armies around the world, starting with the devel... |
3 March 2008
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A team of researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, including Professor Hossein Hashemi and Graduate student Ta-Shun Chu, has recently been capable to create a small 49 pixel CMOS camera, that works in the ultrawideband radar. Only two years ago, the team presented a similar CMOS chip that was only capa... |
5 February 2008
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The experiment conducted by the Naval Research Laboratory, in collaboration with a few other U.S. governmental institution, was mainly designed in order to make detailed measurements on the surface of the Moon, and the Earth's upper layer of the atmosphere, the ionosphere. The team of scientists successfully sen... |
9 January 2008
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There are an estimated one hundred million unexploded land mines around the world. Placing and arming them is relatively inexpensive and simple, the process of detecting and removing them is typically expensive, slow and dangerous.Small size antipersonnel mines are the most dangerous, because they are very small, ma... |
30 July 2007
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Seeing is not all about light, as sounds often produce accurate images of what light alone can't show us. Many applications use sound as imaging technique, like radars, sonars, echographs and telecommunication devices. Processing acoustic signals has just become more efficient with a new imaging algorithm that ... |
17 July 2007
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Some missiles are accidentally damaged when struck by rocks and debris kicked up by helicopter rotors or when mishandled during shipping or maintenance.Unlike missiles made of metallic alloys - which often show external signs of damage such as cracks or dents - damage in the new "filament wound" composite materials ... |
26 March 2007
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