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Impressive robot cockroach speed
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Impressive robot cockroach speed

Cockroaches often bring unpleasant feelings to many people as they are capable of spreading disease in many places. But, the anomaly is a great biomimetic model, helping…

December 11, 2018
The most 'top' robots in 2012
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The most 'top' robots in 2012

Here are the top 'top' robots of 2012 according to the poll of TreeHugger - one of the 10 science news sites with the most readership of the year.

December 11, 2018
Super-speed 6.700 km / h
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Super-speed 6.700 km / h

Passengers will be able to travel on a flight from England to Australia in less than four hours instead of the current 21 hours thanks to the invention of British scient…

December 11, 2018
Can move faster than light?
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Can move faster than light?

Moving faster than light is not fiction but reality - mathematicians at the University of Adelaide try to prove it.

December 11, 2018
Sea turtles
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Sea turtles

These turtles have a speed of 2 meters per second, which is very flexible in movement and can function as a 3-D environment thanks to modern actuators.

December 11, 2018
Try rocket motors for racing
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Try rocket motors for racing

British experts are preparing to test the rocket engine capable of speeding the car racing to reach the threshold of 1,600km / h. Newquay Cornwall will be the site of th…

December 11, 2018
Ultrasound can rotate two ways
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Ultrasound can rotate two ways

Recently, NASA has decided to donate $ 100,000 to design a supersonic aircraft capable of tilting 90 degrees in four-star star-shaped Ninja to become a passenger aircraf…

December 11, 2018
Camera captures 1,000 billion images per second
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Camera captures 1,000 billion images per second

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US have created a camera capable of capturing 1,000 billion images in just one second, meaning that the m…

December 11, 2018
US supersonic flight tests failed
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US supersonic flight tests failed

The US Air Force said Wednesday that the test flight of the X-51A Waverider unmanned aerial vehicle over the Pacific was delayed due to a control error that caused the a…

December 11, 2018
Robot-shaped climbing stairs
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Robot-shaped climbing stairs

Scientists at the University of Freiburg in Germany have successfully demonstrated a robotic escalator, especially the spiral staircase, which is popular in today's…

December 11, 2018
Stab the fire with a loudspeaker
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Stab the fire with a loudspeaker

Fires in closed spaces such as planes, tanks, warships are always a great disaster for all armies. The Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects (DARPA) has…

December 11, 2018
Next generation heat shield
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Next generation heat shield

The new IRVE-3 test flight was made on July 23 from the Wallops launch site of the US Aerospace and Defense Agency (NASA) in Wallop Island, Virginia. The test took 20 mi…

December 11, 2018