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Even before von Lilienthal's sug- gestion, Etrich and Weis had patented a similar idea, but had abandoned it during construction. $ While no experiments were made, more mature consideration led to the ...

PALO ALTO — In 1962, Francis Everitt, a restless young physics researcher from England, signed up at Stanford University for what he thought would be a “few years of entertaining work” on a space ...

Decades in the making, a space probe that delves into Albert Einstein's general theory of gravitation remains grounded on Earth, caught in its own space-time continuum of technical snags, costly ...

THIS is an admirable little book suitable from every point of view as a present for a boy with a mechanical turn of mind. As the extended title indicates, the properties of the gyroscope are ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Researchers working with a type of super-cooled helium have made the frigid stuff whistle, an ...

Two spacewalking astronauts hung science experiments on the outside of the space station’s new lab Friday and packed up a broken gyroscope for next week’s shuttle ride home. It was the third and final ...

Researchers have built a prototype fiber optic gyroscope for high resolution, real-time monitoring of ground rotations caused by earthquakes in the active volcanic area of Campi Flegrei in Naples, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is again conducting experiments after a mechanical failure crippled the groundbreaking observatory for three weeks. In a statement Saturday, NASA officials said the ...

When the final space shuttle mission launches later this year, two iPhone 4s will be on board. The iPhones will be running an experimental app called SpaceLab for iOS, designed by Odyssey Space ...