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Space tech helps to reach long-jump world record

October 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 6

German athlete Wojtek Czyz, running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an amazing 6.50 m and beating the previous world record by ...


This is your grid on brains

October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s) | User comments: 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Managing power networks in the future may involve a little more brain power than it does today, if researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology succeed in a new project that ...


Pterodactyl-inspired robot to master air, ground and sea

October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, aeronautical engineer Rick Lind of the University of Florida, and their students Andy Gedeon and Brian Roberts have reached back in time 115 million ...