(Phys.org)—A team of researchers brought a pair of scale model space capsules to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to try out a rotor system that could be used in place of parachutes ...
Space Exploration
Oct 5, 2012
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An algorithm that helps engineers design better helicopters may help astronomers more precisely envision the formation of planets and galaxies.
Astronomy
Oct 12, 2017
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The prevalence of multi-rotor drones has increased dramatically in recent years, but in headwinds, they pitch upwards unpredictably. Engineers from Tohoku University, Japan, have shown that angling the rotor blades of a quad-rotor ...
Engineering
Feb 9, 2018
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Thanks to the power of its rotors, this fold-up quadrotor extends its articulated arms and takes off in a fraction of a second. This prototype will be viewed by specialists on May 25 at the International Conference on Robotics ...
Robotics
May 20, 2015
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A toy helicopter created from cannibalised smartphones was among the main attractions at a huge toy show in Tokyo on Friday, where producers were targeting the young and the young-at-heart.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 14, 2013
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When Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner established the A*STAR Molecular Engineering Laboratory five years ago, his aim was to bring together a small team of young, high-caliber researchers from disparate disciplines to catalyze ...
Biochemistry
Sep 24, 2014
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The unmanned aircraft known as drones, used by hobbyists, researchers and industry to take aerial images and perform other tasks, are growing ever more popular—and smaller. But that miniaturization, which has produced drones ...
Engineering
Jun 18, 2019
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(AP) -- The pilot eased his five-ton helicopter toward the glacier's rumpled surface, aiming for the lightest of setdowns atop one of the fastest-flowing ice streams on Earth.
Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2011
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For a motor to power machinery, the local motion has to be translated into the ordered movement of other parts of the system. University of Groningen organic chemists led by professor Ben Feringa are the first to achieve ...
Materials Science
Jun 1, 2017
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In this high-resolution visualization of NASA's side-by-side, intermeshing rotor air taxi concept, researchers are working to understand complex rotor air flow interactions, simulated using high-fidelity computational fluid ...
Engineering
Nov 16, 2018
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