radar
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NASA’s Water-Probing Satellite Appears to Be In Trouble
NASA Engineers are racing to fix a worrying glitch with a recently launched water satellite, hoping to get the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission up and running so that it can start surveying our planet’s oceans, lakes, and rivers.
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Researchers Find That Radar Can Be Used to Detect a Nail in a Tyre Long Before It Goes Flat
Your car’s dashboard is a smorgasbord of information when it comes to the health and performance of your vehicle. But the one thing it can’t warn drivers about is when the tread on their tyres has worn out. It’s a safety risk that researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are focusing on with a new real-time…
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My First Ride In A Self-Driving Car Was Harrowing As Hell
The future of city driving — at least in theory — sounds amazing. We’ll have digital assistants in our vehicles to book last-minute restaurant reservations, and we’ll never have to touch a steering wheel again because our cars will drive themselves. At CES, I got a glimpse of how this technology is coming along, and…
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This Flexible Film Uses Liquid Metal To Absorb Radar And Cloak What It Covers
If you want to fly under the radar, you could do with a sheet of this material. Using a series of liquid-metal absorbers, the new film can soak up radar in order to cloak whatever it happens to be covering.