News tagged with jet collaboration

Airplane rivals launch joint biofuel project

Plane makers and bitter rivals Airbus of Europe, Boeing of the US and Embraer of Brazil announced on Thursday a joint plan to develop affordable biofuels for the airplane industry.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Jetting into the Quark-Gluon Plasma

After the quark-gluon plasma filled the universe for a few millionths of a second after the big bang, it was over 13 billion years until experimenters managed to recreate the extraordinarily hot, dense medium ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jan 15, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 9 | with audio podcast




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Robotic jellyfish could one day patrol oceans, clean oil spills, and detect pollutants (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on a multi-university, nationwide project for the U.S. Navy that one day will put life-like autonomous robot jellyfish in waters around ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NASA lunar spacecraft GRAIL complete prime mission ahead of schedule

(Phys.org) -- A NASA mission to study the moon from crust to core has completed its prime mission earlier than expected. The team of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, with twin ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Direct digital: Novel casting process could transform how complex metal parts are made

A Georgia Tech research team has developed a novel technology that could change how industry designs and casts complex, costly metal parts. This new casting method makes possible faster prototype development ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 8

NASA lends ultraviolet space telescope to Caltech

(Phys.org) -- Caltech has taken over operation from NASA of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), a space telescope that for the last nine years has been surveying the cosmos in ultraviolet light. In this ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Amateur astronomers boost ESA's asteroid hunt

A partnership with the UK’s Faulkes Telescope Project promises to boost the Agency’s space hazards research while helping students to discover potentially dangerous space rocks.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA tests GPS monitoring system for big U.S. quakes

(Phys.org) -- The space-based technology that lets GPS-equipped motorists constantly update their precise location will undergo a major test of its ability to rapidly pinpoint the location and magnitude of ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Deepwater Horizon exposed serious gaps in deepwater oil spill research

(Phys.org) -- On the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a national team of scientists, including two researchers from the University of California, Davis, warns that ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Amateur astronomers to 'Target Asteroids!'

(Phys.org) -- Researchers on NASA's robotic asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, are turning to amateur astronomers for new data on near-Earth asteroids in a citizen science observing campaign called ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Where do the highest-energy cosmic rays come from? Not from gamma-ray bursts, says IceCube study

The IceCube neutrino telescope encompasses a cubic kilometer of clear Antarctic ice under the South Pole, a volume seeded with an array of 5,160 sensitive digital optical modules (DOMs) that precisely track ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Robosquirrels versus rattlesnakes

Robot squirrels from the University of California, Davis, are going into rattlesnake country near San Jose, continuing a research project on the interaction between squirrels and rattlesnakes.

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast


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