How the microwave oven was made from WWII radar tech
WWII radar technology unexpectedly and inadvertently led to the invention of one of the most widely used home appliance in ...
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What Can Quartz Crystals Really Do?
Quartz is cherished for its properties, but I'm not talking about magic.
New 3D Radar mapping system could revolutionize rescue missions
Capable of mapping environments in 3D and distinguishing between materials, it could help save a lot of lives.
Radar-suppression meta-skin could be the first step towards an invisibility cloak
Iowa State University engineers have created a flexible, tunable "meta-skin," a material that uses rows of liquid-metal devices to cloak ...
NASA saves 4 men trapped in rubble in Nepal by their heartbeats
A few years ago, NASA unveiled one of the most interesting technologies I've seen recently - a portable radar unit ...
Most detailed Map of the Seafloor yet exposes Thousands of New Mountains
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has released a new map of the world's seafloor - the first in ...
Weird cloud picked up on radar was actually Monarch Butterflies
The US Weather Service captured this strange anomaly, which was in fact the monarch butterfly "cloud". ...
Dolphin-inspired radar system could aid in rescue operations
Miners trapped inside a mine following a collapsing tunnel or skiers covered in deadly snow after an avalanche might be ...
Is there such a thing as unjammable radar? Quantum imaging radar seems so
Detecting a potential threat before it occurs is the first step to preventing any aggression. In today's wars, the scales ...
Radar images of an asteroid during its closest flyby
Between Oct. 28 and Oct. 30, NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in California was directed on "2007 PA8", a one ...
Wall-penetrating radar renders real time video of what’s going on behind it
Real-time Through-wall Imaging Using an Ultrawideband Multiple-Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Phased Array Radar System. (c) MIT ...