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Does the Taliban Have a Chopper-Killer IRAM

Does the Taliban Have a Chopper-Killer IRAM

A CH-47 Chinook takes off after picking up Fox Company from the Northern Bermel region in the hills of Afghanistan. (Source: Wired.com) Was This Enhanced Rocket Weapon Responsible for the Tragedy of the CH-47 Afghanistan Navy Seal Crash? The Taliban ...

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New Methods in Tiny Technology

New Methods in Tiny Technology

A 3D nanostructure with layers as seen by a Scanning Electron Microscope. Source: MIT A silk-based sensor patterned with nanostructures. Source: MIT Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, have recently devised a new method of creating ...

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New Nanolithography Method

New Nanolithography Method

Dr. Chad Mirkin. Source: Northwestern University Scientists at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois have developed a new nanolithography method that quickly deposits or carves out nanostructures on a large surface. The new method can create arbitrary patterns using a series ...

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Nanoparticle Magnets Conserve Rare Earth Metals

Nanoparticle Magnets Conserve Rare Earth Metals

Professor George Hadjipanayis. Source: University of Delaware. Researchers at the University of Delaware and at General Electric Global Research are independently developing new magnets using nanoparticles to preserve the increasingly small supply of rare earth metals typically used in the ...

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New Techniques for Solar Cells

New Techniques for Solar Cells

Material on a block polymer film separating into segregated pockets. Source: Argonne National Laboratory. Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois have developed an extension to atomic layer deposition techniques which could lead to improvements in solar cells and photonic ...

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Safe House

Safe House

Polish architectural firm KWKPromes’ “Safe House” located on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland. Created by architect Robert Konieczny and collaborated with Tukasz Zadrynski and Marcin Jojko; interior design by Magdalena Radatowicz-Zadrzynska. It took a little over a year to complete ...

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Air Laser to Sniff Bombs from a Distance

Air Laser to Sniff Bombs from a Distance

Engineers from Princeton University developed a new laser-sensing technology that may allow soldiers to detect hidden bombs from a distance as well as potential suicide bombers. The research team from Princeton’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering that developed the ...

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SMX-25 a Ship-Sub Hybrid

The French company DCNS developed an interesting concept ship which is essentially a stealth submarine which operate very close to the surface of the water. The SMX-25 will be cheaper and easier to build and operate than a conventional submarine ...

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Eurocopter X3 – Fastest Helicopter on the Planet?

Last week a new European hybrid helicopter was able to reach an almost unprecedented speed of 232 kts. (or 430 km./hr.). This demonstration indicates one more time that the future of high speed helicopters will be based upon hybrid technology. ...

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MIT Makes Sense of Advances in Technology

Not all technologies are being developed at the same rate. Computer micro chips advance much faster than many optical technologies for example. Researchers from MIT recently showed that it may be possible to predict which technologies are likeliest to advance ...

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