A team of solar physicists has released a new study shedding light on the fine-scale structure of the sun's surface. Using ...

The UK government recently announced plans to fund five small-scale trials related to geoengineering. It's the first time a ...

Modern robots can move with incredible agility, mimicking animal locomotion and executing complex tasks with mechanical ...

The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice giants in our Solar System. Methane indicates unexpected ...

An entrepreneur rolled out his prototype solar-powered car, named INTI, after the Inca sun god. But will solar cars heat up ...

In nature, animals don’t recharge, they eat. Food is converted into energy through digestion, circulation and respiration. Fat stores that energy, blood moves it and muscles use it. Future robots ...

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Abstract: We describe the application of an iterative research and development/system engineering process being utilized in the Caltech Space Solar Power Project (SSPP). We begin with a brief ...

It was perfect flying weather for some South View Upper Elementary School fifth-and sixth-graders as they were the pilots in ...

For the first time in history, a spacecraft has flown through the Sun’s atmosphere, gathering crucial data about our closest star. The Parker Solar Probe is an engineering marvel, built to withstand ...

At speeds, temperatures, and altitudes that a hacker’s likely to encounter (i.e. not on an airplane), the pressure difference is pretty small, and it’s only since the advent of MEMS pressure ...