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Engineering

Watch this rocket ā€˜eatā€™ its own body for fuel

Ouroboros-3 uses its own plastic fuselage as propellant. University of GlasgowThe Ouroboros-3 prototype is an autophage rocket engine designed for a fiery demise. The post Watch this rocket ā€˜eatā€™ its own body for fuel appeared first on Popular Science.

Reflective materials and irrigated trees: Study shows how to cool one of the world’s hottest cities by 4.5Ā°C

It’s possible to significantly reduce the temperatures of a major city in a hot desert climate while reducing energy costs, a new study by UNSW Sydney shows.

Research team monitors critical infrastructure using navigation satellites

From the outside, the Kƶlnbrein water dam, operated by Verbund in Carinthia, which is Austria’s highest dam, and the DC Tower in Vienna, Austria’s tallest building, do not have much in common, but for a research group around Caroline Schƶnberger and Werner Lienhart from the Institute of Engineering Geodesy and Measurement Systems at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), they are equally interesting from a scientific point of view.