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CU-Boulder Research Professor James Maslanik, left, CU-Boulder graduate student Ian Crocker, centre, and NOAA researcher John Adler, right - Photo : University of Colorado
A national research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder is embarking on a two-year, multi-pronged effort to better understand the impacts of environmental factors associated with the continuing decline of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.
The northern goshawk zips through a forest at high speeds, constantly adjusting its flight path to keep from colliding with trees and other obstacles. Continue reading
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) experts in the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia, have awarded their third industry contract for a programme that seeks to develop technologies to help detect enemy submarines in shallow coastal waters and harbours without using traditional acoustic submarine-hunting technologies like sonar. Continue reading
A research team at Boston University designed a “Batcopter” to study how bats manage to fly together but never collide. They’re testing it in the desert of southern Texas, where thousands of Brazilian free-tailed bats swarm from their caves to feed each night. Continue reading
Queensland University of Technology aviation researchers are developing an information system to help unmanned aircraft make safer emergency landings and better enable their wider commercial use. Continue reading
Artist's impression - Credit: Mike Malaska
Dr. Jason W. Barnes of the University of Idaho and a team of 30 scientists and engineers created an unmanned mission concept to explore Titan called AVIATR (Aerial Vehicle for In-situ and Airborne Titan Reconnaissance). Continue reading
Maj Mirmirani, Dean of Embry-Riddle’s College of Engineering, said that the College is “contemplating” adding a master’s degree in autonomous and unmanned systems engineering, which could start in 2013. Continue reading
On December 19, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the establishment of a 2 million square foot engineering and applied sciences university campus in the heart of New York City. The New York-based Cornell University and the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology, were chosen to oversee the new institution. Continue reading