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A 3,200-megapixel digital camera is ready for its cosmic photoshoot
The world’s largest digital camera is officially ready to begin filming “the greatest movie of all…
Flexible, resilient origami-inspired bridges could help navigate disaster zones
Origami traditionally involves the creation of extremely delicate paper structures, but the art form’s underlying principles…
A cargo ship’s ‘WindWing’ sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day
A shipping vessel left China for Brazil while sporting some new improvements last August—a pair of…
Huge 60-foot-tall buoy uses ocean waves to create clean energy
Giant buoys over 60-feet tall may one day generate clean energy to feed into local power…
Oh good, the humanoid robots are running even faster now
Step aside, Atlas: A new bipedal bot reportedly laid claim to the world’s fastest full-sized humanoid…
Odie the lunar lander is not dead yet
Despite landing on its side and struggling to maintain power, Odysseus, the first US spacecraft to…
A 3D-printed titanium ‘metamaterial’ design solved a longtime engineering issue
Cellular structures made from metal alloys could strengthen everything from bone implants to rocket parts—if they…
SLIM lives! Japan’s upside-down lander is online after a brutal lunar night
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced on Monday that its historic Smart Lander for Investigating Moon…
This DVD-sized disk can store a massive 125,000 gigabytes of data
Even in a digital-first world, optical disks like DVDs and Blu-rays still have their many uses.…
