June 2018

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Technology

Orange, tea tree and eucalyptus oils sweeten diesel fumes

Editor June 22, 2018 0 Comment

Waste oil from orange, tea tree and eucalyptus essential oil production mixed with diesel provides a sweet-smelling biofuel blend with comparable performance to diesel-only fuel. QUT Ph.D. researcher Ashrafur Rahman tested each of the...

4 Minutes

Robotics

Flying Dragon Robot Transforms Itself to Squeeze Through Gaps

Editor June 22, 2018 0 Comment

DRAGON can change its shape to move through complex environments and even manipulate objects There’s been a lot of recent focus on applications for aerial robots, and one of the areas with the most...

3 Minutes

Technology

Scientists Have Invented a Software That Can ‘See’ Several Minutes Into The Future

Editor June 22, 2018 0 Comment

Most of us are used to technology predicting the words we want to type. Soon this kind of software will be able to look even further into the future to predict actions we’ve barely...

5 Minutes

Technology

Researchers Develop a Wireless Way to Power Human Implants

Editor June 11, 2018 0 Comment

MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have developed a new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within the human body. Such devices could be used to deliver drugs,...

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Robotics

Robotic work cell conducts high-throughput testing instantly

Editor June 11, 2018 0 Comment

Today, with 3-D printing, you can make almost anything in a matter of hours. However, making sure that part works reliably takes weeks or even months. Until now. Sandia National Laboratories has designed and...

2 Minutes

Space

Acquisition of Orbital ATK Approved, Company Renamed Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems

Editor June 11, 2018 0 Comment

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday announced it has cleared Northrop Grumman’s $7.8 billion purchase of defense and space contractor Orbital ATK. Orbital ATK will become Northrop Grumman’s fourth business sector, named Northrop Grumman Innovation...

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Technology

An Aerial Robot Capable of Changing Its Shape in Full Flight

Editor June 8, 2018 0 Comment

This is a world first: researchers from the Institute of Movement Sciences – Étienne Jules Marey (CNRS / Aix-Marseille University) have been inspired by birds to design an aerial robot capable of changing its shape in flight. It can indeed change the...

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Technology

CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) Telescope

Editor June 8, 2018 0 Comment

CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) is a space telescope being developed jointly by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Swiss Space Office (SSO). The spacecraft is scheduled to be launched into space by early-2019....

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Robotics

Scientists develop Terminator robot “super strength” material that could allow military hunter-killers to strangle you to death

Editor June 8, 2018 0 Comment

It seems as though the more we experiment with robotics, the more the classic 1984 film Terminator becomes something much more than just a fictional story produced in Hollywood. Scientists today have found ways to develop...

2 Minutes

Space

FCC Approves Audacy license for commercial satellite data-relay constellation

Editor June 8, 2018 0 Comment

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission granted a spectrum license June 7 to Audacy, the Silicon Valley startup planning to establish a space-based commercial communications relay network. “Our business would not be possible without the access...