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A graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics has helped design a reusable, 700-pound air-bag system that could inflate during launch and landing, deflate for storage purposes, and partially inflate to provide seating while the vehicle is in space. Not only would the system be lighter than the one NASA originally proposed for Orion, but it would also be entirely mechanical, meaning not controlled by computers.
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Legislators and DOE’s researchers alike are hoping FutureGen 2.0 is a smoother ride than the first go-around, which went the way of New Coke. With $1 billion now comitted, the coal-dependent U.S. is now headed rapidly for a massive retrofitting of coal generation. But carbon storage will inevitably mean higher energy prices for all.
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Two bugs are making a comeback tour, and one is as annoying as the other is deadly. One bites skin, one attacks cells. There’s no vaccine, the treatments are less and less effective with each passing year, and they are beginning to take over the neighborhood. Itchy yet?
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The world’s first kilometer-scale neutrino, buried deep under Antarctic ice, should be all systems go by Christmas 2010. With 5,160 sensors occupying a gigaton of ice, researchers hope to detect the small neutrino fluxes that could reveal the sources of cosmic rays and the particle nature of dark matter.
Physicists at China's Wuhan University discovered that nanospheres combined with a nanorod dimer (identical attached molecules that form a fixed, measurable length) could be used to solve the problem of measurement sensitivity in a device called a plasmon ruler. This stable “ruler” could be of great benefit in nanotech applications.
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