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More Accurate Than GPS: New Navigation System With 10 Centimeter Accuracy
Researchers have developed an alternative positioning system that is more robust and accurate than GPS, especially in urban settings. An alternative positioning system that is more robust and accurate...
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Jet Engine Installed on NASA’s X-59 QueSST Quiet Supersonic Aircraft
NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft now has the jet engine that will power it in flight. Earlier this month, at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, the F414-GE-100 engine...
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Popular Gasoline Reduction Strategies Aren’t Getting a Chance To Work
Research study finds world leaders give up on increasing gas taxes and reducing subsidies to producers. Around the world, governments have widely attempted two strategies meant to reduce the use of...
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What Makes Electric Vehicle Fires So Difficult To Extinguish? [Video]
Electric vehicles don’t catch fire often, but when they do, things get spicy. How do these fires start? And why are they so hard to extinguish? There are scientists trying to answer these questions,...
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Superconductor Superhighways: Moving Energy, People and Cargo at 400 Miles...
New Concept Would Offer Economic, Environmental Benefits for Next-Generation Transit, Energy Transmission, and Storage Researchers have proposed a cost-effective superconductor system that integrates...
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Revolutionizing Highways: Superconductors Unlock High-Speed Travel and Energy...
Revolutionary design could combine superconductor levitation, lossless electricity transmission, and liquid hydrogen transportation into one system. A proof of concept for a superconducting highway has...
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Solar Powered “Artificial Leaf” Produces Clean, Car-Ready Liquid Fuels From...
University of Cambridge scientists have developed an ‘artificial leaf’ that, powered by sunlight, converts CO2 and water into ethanol and propanol. This innovation eliminates the intermediary step of...
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Windshield Washer Fluid Is an Unexpected Source of...
A research study reveals that alcohols from windshield washer fluid contribute more significantly to vehicle emissions than previously thought. This holds true even with the increased adoption of...
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Top Guns of AI: MIT’s Maverick Approach Toward Safe and Reliable Autopilots...
A new AI-based approach for controlling autonomous robots satisfies the often-conflicting goals of safety and stability. In the film “Top Gun: Maverick,” Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, is charged with...
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MIT’s Compact Megawatt Electric Motor Could Help Electrify Aviation
Technology demonstrations show the machine’s major components achieve the required performance. MIT engineers are developing a compact, lightweight, and powerful 1-megawatt electric motor that could...
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NASA’s Newest X-Plane: Next Generation Experimental Aircraft X-66A “Will Help...
The U.S. Air Force has designated the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, a collaboration between NASA and Boeing, as the X-66A. The project aims to develop a more sustainable, single-aisle...
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Watt’s Next? Oxford Study May Unlock “Game-Changing” Batteries for Electric...
Oxford University researchers have discovered how lithium metal solid-state batteries (Li-SSBs) fail, potentially paving the way for improved EV batteries. The team identified that the formation and...
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This One Weird Trick by NASA Is Saving Billions of Gallons of Fuel
Forty-four years ago this July, NASA began testing a technology that would become one of the agency’s most visible and beneficial contributions to commercial aviation – winglets, the upturned ends of...
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On the Road Again: Majority of Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment Still...
Researchers highlight the importance of caregivers having conversations with care recipients and healthcare professionals about driving. The majority of older adults with cognitive impairment continue...
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Navigating Drought: Panama Canal’s Shipping Snarl
Severe drought is reducing the number of daily passages on the transoceanic shipping route. While some weather-related delays are mere nuisances, others have a more profound impact, disrupting the...
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MIT’s Biomass Breakthrough: 100% Sustainable Jet Fuel From Plant Waste
MIT researchers are converting the plant material lignin into hydrocarbon molecules that could help make jet fuel 100 percent sustainable. An MIT research team is working on converting lignin, a plant...
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Scientists Reveal That Self-Driving Cars Can Make Traffic Slower
A recent study reveals that vehicles that wirelessly communicate with each other, known as “connected” vehicles, considerably enhance the flow of traffic at intersections. However, automated vehicles...
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MIT’s “Air-Guardian” – AI Copilot Enhances Human Precision for Safer Skies
Designed to ensure safer skies, “Air-Guardian” blends human intuition with machine precision, creating a more symbiotic relationship between pilot and aircraft. Imagine you’re in an airplane with two...
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Future of Aviation? NASA and U.S. Air Force Testing Joby’s Electric Vertical...
NASA and the U.S. Air Force are testing Joby Aviation’s eVTOL air taxi for potential civilian and military applications, building on NASA’s existing Advanced Air Mobility research and aiming to...
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Eyeing the Future: How NASA’s Human Pilots Shape Autonomous Air Taxis
Air taxis may become an important part of the U.S. transportation ecosystem, quickly carrying people relatively short distances – and eventually, some may fly without a pilot aboard. NASA is helping...
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