Aptera Motors has finished its work over supereconomy car Aptera.
For the maximal reduction in fuel consumption all possible ways have been used - the form of a car minimizes resistance of air, and use of special carbon composites reduces weight of the vehicle.
In Aptera the hybrid diesel engine is used. This engine spends nearly 1 […]

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In the evening March, 20, rocket Falcon 1 made by the American company SpaceX was launched into the space from one of the atoll Kwajalein islands. Millionaire Elon Mask, the owner and the founder of SpaceX considers, that the flight was successful 95 %.
The small private company has shown that developing and construction of […]

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Since NASA believes to send people on a long-term lunar station by 2020, researchers of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created software to model supply chains for oxygen delivery, delivery of food, fuel, exploration equipment, and spare parts.
Olivier de Weck, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems, and David Simchi-Levi, professor of […]

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The world largest motor-car manufacturers BMW, Toyota, Honda, GM, DaimlerChrysler and Volkswagen have developed automobiles with the hydrogen engine, however all companies have faced technological problems, such as high value up to $1 one million per one unit.
The problem is that the hydrogen filled as a liquid in a fuel tank at the lowest temperature […]

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Frenchman Gi Negre who during several years developed the original concept of the automobile on compressed air, seems to receive good chance of a batch production. Company where Negre works - Motor Development International (MDI) has signed the cooperation agreement with the Indian autobuilding giant Tata.
The Indian company is going to apply Frenchman’s idea - […]

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NASA with assistance of the American geological service creates the most detailed Antarctic map which on details will excel others in ten times. In NASA press-service RIA News informed that the opportunity of creation of such a map appeared when they received more than thousand pictures from the satellite Landsat 7.
” These pictures give us […]

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Guger Technologies team of researches from Germany produced the first computer control system, which performs with the help of cerebrum signals (BCI). The system will allow the user to create and send E-mails, and also to play computer games.
The system is available for the ordinary PC and for the hand-held computers with Windows.
Work of the […]

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Doctor Paul Abell offers to the agency to send the piloted mission to one of the asteroids. Details of his plan Abell explained during the conference on “Moon and planets� in Houston.
The main attention Abell pays to that, that for such mission NASA shouldn’t create the special equipment. According to him, a new NASA spaceship […]

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The Finnish astronomer-amateurs found a new star. As STT agency reports, the inhabitants of city Varkaus (in east part of country) Veli-Pekka Khentunen and Markku Nissinen studied galaxies in the north side of sky using telescope, when they noticed a new star on the border of galaxies. American Center for astrophysics of Harvard-Smitson named it […]

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France is going to initiate its fastest rail link. Trains will travel at 320km/h (200mph).
The TGV-Est line will connect Paris with the eastern city of Strasbourg, shortening travel time from the four hours now to two hours 20 minutes.
Passengers traveling further east to other EU states will also benefit after the launch of the link […]

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