Helium-Filled Airship Allows Tryout for Guidance, Navigation and Control System Using a 17-foot-long helium-filled blimp, four propellers and sophisticated electronics, three Johns Hopkins undergraduates have built a model ...
Jul 19, 2005
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Kansas State University and Yinnel Tech, Inc., of South Bend, Indiana, have won a 2005 R&D 100 Award for developing a highly efficient, low-cost radiation ...
Jul 19, 2005
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NASA officials Tuesday said they had not determined the cause of a fuel tank sensor problem that aborted the launch of the space shuttle Discovery.
Jul 19, 2005
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Most challenging construction project on Earth A futuristic design by Faber Maunsell and Hugh Broughton Architects has won the competition for the new British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Halley Research Station. In a very close-run ...
Jul 19, 2005
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Beginning Oct. 1, at least 18 states will collect taxes from online sales voluntarily, offering a year of amnesty to companies that have not reported on online transactions in the past.
Jul 19, 2005
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MindComet launches a website sending bloggers where no blog has gone before: deep space. BloginSpace.com is a free service for bloggers allowing them to submit their blog feeds for transmission into deep space. The site will ...
Jul 19, 2005
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SSETI Express, the first spacecraft to be designed and built by European students, has set off on the first stage of its journey into space. It recently left ESTEC, in the Netherlands, and is now on its way to Plesetsk, ...
Jul 19, 2005
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The U.S. Office of Naval Research has selected BAE Systems to begin development of an on-board vehicle power system for the Marine Corps' High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, known commonly as the Humvee.
Jul 19, 2005
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Solar concentrators using highly efficient photovoltaic solar cells will reduce the cost of electricity from sunlight to competitive levels soon, attendees were told at a recent international conference on the subject.
Jul 19, 2005
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Japan will study South Korea's legal guidelines on embryonic stem cell research for "therapeutic cloning" to shape its policy on the morally challenging issue.
Jul 19, 2005
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