Oct 17, 2024 | Featured, Nuclear, Space
This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of traditional chemical rocket fuel. An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses nuclear fission and...
Oct 17, 2024 | Batteries, Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
General Motors has agreed to establish a joint venture with Lithium Americas Corp. that includes the automaker supplying $625 million in cash and credit to the Canadian mining business, the companies announced Wednesday. The deal is centered on the development,...
Oct 17, 2024 | Aeronautics, Autonomous Ships, Defense, Featured
The Army is developing requirements to distribute supplies to troops on the battlefield in a contested environment using a network of autonomous boats and aircraft, according to the general in charge of logistics modernization. “Our focus is an...
Oct 17, 2024 | Business, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Attractive lease deals, incentive offers from manufacturers, and an expanding charging network pushed a record number of consumers into combustion-free electric vehicles (EVs) in the third quarter of this year, According to industry analysts at Cox Automotive. More...
Oct 17, 2024 | Agriculture, Robots, Space
Once upon a time, water flowed across the surface of Mars. Waves lapped against shorelines, strong winds gusted and howled, and driving rain fell from thick, cloudy skies. It wasn’t really so different from our own planet 4 billion years ago, except for one crucial...
Oct 17, 2024 | Aerial Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, Defense, Military
Autonomous helicopters have been in the works for years now, and that means we’re already getting to see some incipient results. One such development might take the form of a self-flying Black Hawk helicopter, for which DARPA just gave one of the biggest names...
Oct 17, 2024 | Mobility, Satellites, Space
The satellite industry has been transformed in recent years from one with a few, mostly government-controlled, high-orbit vehicles into one with a proliferation of smaller, low-orbit constellations of multiple satellites dominated by commercial enterprises. All that...
Oct 14, 2024 | Smart Mobility Today
One story stood out to me this week because it reached back in history with results set very much in the here and now of technology and discovery. Be sure to read about the “Ghost Ship” and how we get yet another glimpse at the USS. Stewert. Cindy...
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