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Popular Mechanics
July 14, 2008 |
Inside Mojave Air and Space Port: Photo & Video Gallery Think you've seen the future of private spaceflight? Think again. Take a look at the freewheeling desert outpost where maverick engineers are inventing the next generation of planes.   |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2008 |
Slideshow: The Art of Failure Microscopic images of defects in microchips provide art for fevered imaginations. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2008
Erik Sofge |
New Military Robots to Face Off in Two Summer Contests Singapore and the United Kingdom are staging robotics competitions this August to develop their own autonomous war machines. |
Popular Mechanics
July 10, 2008
Jim McCraw |
7 Robot Cars and Driverless Tech Rigs Coming Soon From VW Volkswagen is tantalizingly close to meeting DARPA's robotic car challenge and to starting volume production of the driverless car technology. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2008
John Voelcker |
Our First Electric Cars...May Be Trucks The path to bringing hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric vehicles into daily use could have some unexpected twists and turns. |
Popular Mechanics
June 24, 2008
Chris Ladd |
For Future of Biofuel, Secret of MPG Ooze Lies in Mutant Bacteria Scientists are looking way beyond ethanol to a new generation of power -- one that's designed on a computer, produced by bacteria and acts just like good old gasoline. |
Scientific American
July 2008
Mark Fischetti |
Cruise Ships: How They Sail Skyscrapers Around the World Large cruise ships typically host 1,800 passengers or more, plus 800 staff. Remarkably, many of these massive structures - three football fields long and 14 stories high - can deftly turn on a dime, spin 360 degrees, even mosey sideways. |
Scientific American
June 2008 |
July 1908: The Winning Flight of the "June Bug" Aeroplane for The Scientific American Trophy Nearly a score of Aero Club members and others interested in aviation made the trip to Hammondsport, N.Y., to witness the flight of the Aerial Experiment Association's third aeroplane, the "June Bug," on the Fourth of July, 1908. |
Popular Mechanics
July 7, 2008
Erik Sofge |
For Future of Mind Control, Robot-Monkey Trials Are Just a Start A study in the journal Nature this spring all but confirmed the latest evolution in the hard-charging, heady field of cybernetics: Monkeys can control machines with their brains. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2, 2008
Leah Pietrusiak |
5 Wild DIY Bicycle Mods--and How to Build Them From jet engines to flotation devices, these bikes are the fastest "life on two wheels without a motorcycle license." And the inventors share their secrets on how they built theirs. |
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