News tagged with design contest
Texas Tech, U of Utah win Sandia microdevice competition
The world's smallest chess board — about the diameter of four human hairs — and a pea-sized microbarbershop were winners in this year's design contest for, respectively, novel and educational microelectromechanical ...
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Caltech Rover ready for rock-yard competition in Houston
(Phys.org) -- Later this week, a four-wheeled robot designed and built by Caltech undergraduate students will maneuver, apparently under its own guidance, through various challenges at the NASA Johnson Space ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 29, 2012 |
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Data in the fast lane
A new approach to managing data over a network has enabled a Microsoft Research team to set a speed record for sifting through, or “sorting,” a huge amount of data in one minute.
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 22, 2012 |
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Iowa State students take a lighter, more autonomous 'lunabot' to NASA competition
Jared Peterson, working away in the Caterpillar Mechatronics Laboratory in Iowa State University's Hoover Hall, recently held up a small electric motor.
May 21, 2012 |
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On the hunt for high-altitude microorganisms
The United States Rocket Academy has announced an open call for entries in its High Altitude Astrobiology Challenge, a citizen science project that will attempt to collect samples of microbes that may be lurking ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 21, 2012 |
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Whirr, click, hum: Robots go at it in 2.007 finale
MIT’s Johnson Athletic Center took on the aura of an old-fashioned county fair on Thursday night, complete with popcorn, balloons, jugglers, cotton candy and pitchmen wearing brightly colored jackets and bowties. But ...
May 14, 2012 |
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Twitter plays outsize role in 2012 campaign
(AP) -- (at)BarackObama is on Twitter. So is (at)MittRomney. And so are all the voters following the 2012 presidential contest, whether they know it or not.
May 07, 2012 |
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The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China
In the first exhibition of its kind, the Fitzwilliam Museum will relate the story of the quest for immortality and struggle for imperial legitimacy in ancient China’s Han Dynasty.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 07, 2012 |
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Students to demonstrate smart camera trap at new engineering competition
(Phys.org) -- Forget about building a better mouse trap. University of California, San Diego sophomore Riley Yeakle and his teammates have come up with a better camera trap, and they will be facing off with ...
May 02, 2012 |
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Optimizing biofuel supply chain is a competitive game
As biofuel production has increased – particularly ethanol derived from corn – a hotly contested competition for feedstock supplies has emerged between the agricultural grain markets and biofuel refineries. This ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 19, 2012 |
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800-pound paper airplane takes flight
(PhysOrg.com) -- An 800-pound, 45-foot-long paper airplane with a 24-foot wingspan may be the largest paper airplane ever to glide across the sky. After being hoisted to a height of 2,703 feet by a helicopter ...
Mar 27, 2012 |
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