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Popular Mechanics October 6, 2009 Erin McCarthy |
MythBusters Q&A: New Season Filled With Bullets, MPG Tests and Duct Tape The new shows feature unusual science experiments. |
Popular Mechanics October 2009 Alex Hutchinson |
Global Aspirations for a Solar-Electric Plane Swiss engineers have unveiled the prototype of an airplane they hope will become the first manned vehicle to fly around the world powered only by the sun. |
Popular Mechanics October 2009 |
How to Make Biodiesel With a Commercial Kit With the professionally engineered biodiesel systems available today, the process is simpler, safer, takes less time and yields more consistent results. |
Popular Mechanics October 2009 |
Robotic Surgeons Take Over at a Hospital Near You The tool-wielding wrists of the da Vinci can rotate 540 degrees and have seven degrees of freedom, making the tools of the mechanical surgeon more dexterous than instruments held in human fingers. |
Popular Mechanics October 2009 |
Students Build the Solar Homes of the Future The Solar Decathlon, in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy this fall, will pit 20 teams of college students against each other in an international showdown of innovative engineering. |
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2009 |
7 Works of DIY Insanity at Gadgetoff '09 From the Regurgatron to the Ruben Tube, they are all a bit insane. |
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2009 Seth Porges |
PM Takes the First Test Ride on a Jet-Powered Carousel (Video!) Brooklyn-based arts collective The Madagascar Institute had tested its home-built jet-powered merry-go-round -- but never with people on it. |
Popular Mechanics October 2009 |
How to Get Your Gadgets Off the Grid I recently decided to design and test a plan to keep our gadgetry humming once society collapses. |
Popular Mechanics October 2009 Harry Sawyers |
The Guide to Home Geothermal Energy Unlike wind and solar, geothermal's power source never varies. |
Fast Company October 2009 Tim McKeough |
MIT's 3-D Digital Scanner Dives Deep Into the Ear How do you build a better hearing aid? Researchers at MIT believe the answer is to bring new eyes to the ears, with imaging technology to make an aid that fits the user perfectly. |
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