Research & development (R&D) can be the ultimate black box. Start with smart people. Add a pile of money. Wait for the next cool technology to pop out. When will it happen? No one can tell. Will it ...

Purdue graduate student Samantha Alberts and professor Steven Collicott discuss details of a zero-gravity flight experiment that flew this June on NASA's "vomit comet," an airplane that induces short ...

Quantum physicist Mario Krenn remembers sitting in a café in Vienna in early 2016, poring over computer printouts, trying to make sense of what MELVIN had found. MELVIN was a machine-learning ...

The magnetically suspended control and sense gyroscope (MSCSG) integrates spacecraft attitude measurement and control function; this paper proposes a double spherical rotor (DSR) for MSCSG. The DSR ...

Lightbridge's advanced nuclear fuel technology has completed the final design review for its upcoming irradiation experiment at Idaho National Laboratory - and expects to benefit from a groundbreaking ...