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Seismic Invisibility Cloak Could Hide Buildings From Earthquakes

Earthquake Damage, Southwestern China, May 2008 TEH ENG KOON/AFP/Getty Images Disaster film director Roland Emmerich must be quaking in his boots knowing that his movies may soon have to be a little...

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Air Force's Hypersonic X-51 WaveRider Ready For First Test Flight

X-51 WaveRider The X-51A WaveRider, a wingless scramjet, will make its first hypersonic test flight Tuesday over the Pacific Ocean. Air Force Research Laboratory The military's new wingless plane is...

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Video: Surfing on Supersonic Shock Waves at 3,000MPH

Surfing Shock Waves arXiv:1010.3248v2Surfing big breakers is cool and all, but wouldn't catching lazy rollers be more fun at speeds topping Mach One? A CalTech researcher and a few colleagues put...

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What We Now Know About The Chelyabinsk Meteor

Chelyabinsk Fragment Science/AAAS Months after a 62-foot-wide fireball streaked through the morning sky over Chelyabinsk, Russia, scientists are starting to get a handle on the rock's composition,...

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Seismic Invisibility Cloak Could Hide Buildings From Earthquakes

Disaster film director Roland Emmerich must be quaking in his boots knowing that his movies may soon have to be a little less destructive. With the invention of an…

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Air Force's Hypersonic X-51 WaveRider Ready For First Test Flight

The military's new wingless plane is set to make its first hypersonic test flight Tuesday, after it is released from a B-52 bomber off the California coast. The X-51A…

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Video: Surfing on Supersonic Shock Waves at 3,000MPH

Surfing big breakers is cool and all, but wouldn’t catching lazy rollers be more fun at speeds topping Mach One? A CalTech researcher and a few colleagues put together a …

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What We Now Know About The Chelyabinsk Meteor

Months after a 62-foot-wide fireball streaked through the morning sky over Chelyabinsk, Russia, scientists are starting to get a handle on the rock's composition,…

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