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Big Pic: A Fiery Ribbon Stretching Across Orion’s Belt

Inside the European Southern Observatory’s Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile, there’s a submillimeter-wavelength camera perfectly tuned to peer through the clouds of interstellar dust and gas that ...
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The Drone Camera Revolution Is Here

Focusing on drones as devices of scary military surveillance and execution ignores the entire field of consumer drones–which are, basically, next-generation remote-controlled helicopters. One of the fields that’s se...
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2013 Invention Awards: Hot Savings

Semitruck drivers idle their engines to heat or cool their vehicles’ cabs—a practice that burns a billion gallons of fuel each year. Small engines on the back of a cab, called auxiliary power units (APUs), get the job done ...
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2013 Invention Awards: Suborbital Safeguard

During NASA’s 2007 Astronaut Glove Challenge, costume fabricator Ted Southern met fellow competitor Nikolay Moiseev, a Russian space-suit builder. Although each walked away from the competition empty-handed, they formed a pro...
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X-47B Takes Off From An Aircraft Carrier Today

The U.S. Navy’s autonomous X-47B drone took off from an aircraft carrier today. This is a big deal in the military world–an airplane that takes off from and lands on an aircraft carrier has the highly valuable abili...
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How To Turn An AK-47 Into A Soup Ladle

Changing swords into plowshares and spears into pruning-hooks is an ancient metaphor for turning away from violence and toward peaceful labor. Mike Izbicki, a former Navy midshipman who in 2011 was discharged from service as a ...
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