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Popular Mechanics
November 25, 2009
Lauren Cahoon |
Cornell's 100-MPG X-Prize Entry First Test Drive (Video) Cornell University's all-student team (the only university team in the mainstream competition) has been racing against deadlines to get its vehicle, a slimmed-down Honda Civic body on a Subaru Sambar chassis, ready for battle.   |
Popular Mechanics
November 25, 2009 |
5 Wild, Last-Minute Thanksgiving Day Projects How you can create a marvel of engineering for your Thanksgiving table -- the recirculating gravy fountain. |
Popular Mechanics
November 24, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Polar Printer Reimagines the Way Magnets Work (With Video!) An invention that can reconfigure the charges of magnets in never-before-seen patterns may lead to new varieties of contact-free attachments and friction-free gears. |
Popular Mechanics
November 24, 2009
Chris Ladd |
How Centuries-Old Flywheels Can Improve the Electric Grid For millennia, flywheels have powered everything from potter's wheels to steam engines, storing kinetic energy in their momentum as they spin. |
Popular Mechanics
November 18, 2009
Douglas Fox |
IBM Reveals the Biggest Artificial Brain of All Time This computer simulation, as large as a cat's brain, blows away the previous record -- a simulated rat's brain with 55 million neurons -- built by the same team two years ago. |
Popular Mechanics
November 18, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Hopes Stirring at NASA for Ares Engineering Vindication: Exclusive NASA engineers at Marshall Flight are cautiously optimistic that the fears about the under-construction Ares I rocket's propensity to shake violently have been overstated. |
National Defense
December 2009
Stew Magnuson |
New Tunnel Detection Test Site in the Works The Defense and Homeland Security Departments are expected to break ground during the coming year on a joint clandestine tunnel detection test site at the Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona. |
National Defense
December 2009
Austin Wright |
Polar Ice Surveillance At Rock Bottom Prices University of Kansas researchers needed an unmanned aerial vehicle that could carry 120 pounds worth of radar equipment at low altitudes and over icy terrain to measure vital information for the Navy in Antarctica. |
National Defense
December 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
In the Race to Be Green, Navy Moves to the Front of the Pack The Navy is positioning itself to take the lead among the military services in the use of renewable energy and in planning for future contingencies that may result from climate change. |
National Defense
December 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Saudi Arabia Securing its Borders with Sensors and Software The Saudis awarded lead contractor EADS a program -- reportedly worth billions of dollars -- to secure the country with a virtual high-tech fence. |
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