Barring the invention of a stupidly cheap and non-polluting superfuel (or better still but more unlikely, some kind of antigravity propulsion system), the age of cheap and ubiquitous air travel is going to have to end, by choice or otherwise. Continue reading “Armchair Travel”
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Professor David Macmillan of the University of Melbourne has done a lot of research on crayfish (or ‘yabbies’, as they are known Down Under) and NASA has been applying some of his results to the design of autonomous space exploration robots. Continue reading “Crayfish Space-Robots Are Go!”
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