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Wind-Powered Car Breaks Record

Sunday, March 29th, 2009 - 10:21:39 - Sarah Gingichashvili

A British engineer from Hampshire has broken the world land speed record for a wind-powered vehicle. Richard Jenkins reached 126.1mph (202.9km/h) in...

Science Behind the Fastest Car of All Time

Friday, October 24th, 2008 - 14:05:01 - Anuradha Menon

When Andy Green puts his foot on the accelerator and tries to break the land speed record in 2011 he can be sure that some of the UK’s top scientists...

Space Tech Helps in Long-Jump World Record

Saturday, October 4th, 2008 - 18:40:04 - Anuradha Menon

German athlete Wojtek Czyz, running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an...

Solar Plane Makes Record Flight

Monday, August 25th, 2008 - 16:37:30 - Ehud Rattner

A UK-built solar-powered plane has set an unofficial world endurance record for a flight by an unmanned aircraft. The Zephyr-6, as it is known...

Firefox Download Record Official

Monday, July 7th, 2008 - 20:38:38 - Ehud Rattner

Mozilla has officially made history with a new Guinness world record for the largest number of software downloads in a 24-hour period. The final...

Another Chance For Vinyl Records

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 - 16:11:02 - Ehud Rattner

This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release "Accelerate" inadvertently entered the "LP" code...

Robot Sets a Record for Walking Distance

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 - 15:15:30 - Ehud Rattner

Cornell Ranger robot has recently set an unofficial world record by walking nonstop for 45 laps - a little over 9 kilometers or 5.6 miles - around...

The Memory Necklace
Monday, February 25th, 2008 - Noa Rotkop
Momenta, a concept neck worn PC, is one of the entries in Microsoft's Next-Gen PC Design Competition. This innovative...