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14.12.2009, 14:53
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A Proton rocket carrying three satellites for Russia's navigation system GLONASS, which will enable the system to cover all of Russia, has been launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
01.09.2010, 21:21
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After decades of fruitless efforts to improve safety on the country’s roads, inventive Russians may at last have found a way to deal with the drastic situation.
15.12.2009, 18:45
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The possibility of conscious robots widely populating our world is far more likely to happen than many dare to think.
19.03.2010, 07:22
A group of Russian students in Moscow have designed a cheaper and more comfortable model of endoscope that might be able to help you out to learn what goes on inside your stomach.
24.09.2009, 18:09
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Soon a new type of interconnect will be pumping data between laptops, desktop computers and other gadgets at the astounding speed of 10-gigabits-per-second, Intel announced Wednesday.
19.10.2009, 11:18
Heart disease is a major problem in Russia, but a new heart monitoring device may allow detecting the signs of heart disease early, and without the need for a hospital trip.
14.12.2009, 16:58
Rene Pischel, the head of the Moscow office of the European Space Agency, believes that in the future there will be many more uses for GLONASS-like navigating systems than just road navigation.
02.02.2010, 13:29
Bioengineers have borrowed an idea from a beetle, which sticks to leaves using combined surface tension of many liquid droplets, to create a mechanical device working on the same principle.
09.07.2010, 10:48
A student team from Moscow has won second place at the Microsoft-sponsored computer science and engineering competition Imagine Cup. Their project was a semi-automatic robot meant to entertain and educate children.
13.05.2010, 16:59
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Oil spills, global warming, species extinction and foreign wars in oil-producing countries all in the name of short-lived consumerism. How much more can the natural world handle?
Published: 21 October, 2009, 12:46
Edited: 25 July, 2010, 05:43
A team of robotics engineers have developed a system that makes pneumatic artificial muscles much quieter than those used in labs today.
I am pleased at this original approach to robotic actuators. Have the inventors of this method considered using materials which sublimate at slightly elevated temperatures ? These materials include the family of chemicals of inks found in sublimation photo printers which sublimate and re-crystallize at temperatures above room temperature. This may also be a method of activating pneumatic actuators without pumps or compression canisters as well.