The SR-72 will travel at six times the speed of sound—the fastest military jet ever made—and fly as high as 80,000 feet. The SR-72,will evade assault, take spy photos, and attack targets at speeds of up to Mach 6. That’s twice as fast as its predecessor. Aeronautical engineers at Lockheed Martin and Aerojet Rocketdyne have …
The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a proposed infrared space observatory which was selected by National Research Council committee as the top priority for the next decade of astronomy. The WFIRST space telescope could be in space by 2024 if it is started in 2017. Estimates suggested that every planetary system in the …
A platoon of two trucks is like a short train driving on the road, with the trucks driving very closely behind each other. The distance between the two trucks can really be extremely small – creating a desirable form of tailgating. The distance can be as low as 0.3 seconds, which at 80 km/h is …
Truck platoons are the most imminently anticipated application of highly automated driving in commercial vehicles. A fusion of forward-looking radar and V2V communication enable fleets of trucks to safely maneuver with a short distance between vehicles. The reduction in aerodynamic drag for following vehicles, and buildup of pressure behind the lead vehicle yields impressive fuel …
British engineers from BAE Systems are working in collaboration with academics at the University of Birmingham to develop applications for this ground-breaking technology concept, which intelligently ‘mixes’ together the real and virtual world to allow operators to take real-time control of their environments like never before. This includes a briefcase sized portable command centre that …
Krylovsky State Research Center (KRSC) came up with a scale model of a new aircraft carrier known as 23000 “Storm,” daily newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported. “Storm” can carry 90 deck-based aircraft for various combat missions. The carrier has two ramps and two electromagnetic catapults to launch aircraft from its deck. The ship’s power plant will …
One of the new NASA NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced concept) studies is Differential Deployable Autonomous Radio Navigation (ΔDARN). This will be carried out by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Haystack Observatory. This will bring astronomical radio observations of quasars, masers and pulsars into play as a means to autonomously guide spacecraft among the planets, …
NASA has funded more NIAC (Innovative advanced concept) studies. Deep Space Industries has been funded to develop In-Space Manufacture of Storable Propellants Many deep-space, missions, especially those that return material or crews to near-Earth space, are severely limited by the need to carry propellants and heat shields to achieve their mission goals. Lifting these assets …
Studies have suggested that people with Alzheimer’s also have higher iron levels in their brains. Now it seems that high iron may hasten the disease’s onset. Researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia followed 144 older people who had mild cognitive impairment for seven years. To gauge how much iron was in their brains, …
Keen Software House has improved their General artificial intelligence. It could already Pong, a Breakout Game and an Artificial Brain simulator and now it is able to work with delayed rewards and create a hierarchy of goals. The AI was able to control movement through a maze like map and learn the rules of a …
Young blood has once again shown its promise as an elixir of youth: blood from young mice helps bones of older animals heal. Over the past few years, researchers have reversed muscle atrophy, memory loss, heart degradation and some of the effects of cognitive decline by pumping the blood of young mice into old mice. …