YASA will develop two axial flux motor designs that reduce or eliminate rare-earth magnet content, under a UK government-funded program called Project Resilience. The grant comes through the DRIVE35 Demonstrate competition, and the work will be delivered from YASA’s UK engineering and development facilities. Heavy-rare-earth-free permanent-magnet designs are the routeContinue Reading
Samsung SDI has acquired the 49.99% stake General Motors held in SynergyCells, the battery joint venture the two companies established in New Carlisle, Indiana. Samsung SDI describes the plant as its first independently operated battery production base in North America. The two also signed a new joint development agreement coveringContinue Reading
Credit: NASA In honor of America’s historic 250th anniversary, NASA announced on Friday MAX POWER, a public exposition of American air and space innovation, Nov. 7 and Nov. 8, on and near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The multi-day, family-friendly event will showcase the next-generation aircraft, spacecraft, autonomousContinue Reading
Max Power Navigation MAX POWER Home Get Tickets Frequently Asked Questions America’s newest and most exciting aerospace technology expo and air show Celebrate the spirit of American innovation at MAX POWER — an exposition of air and space technologies at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Nov. 7-8. The two-dayContinue Reading
Explore This Section Science Citizen Science Volunteer Develops… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation Certain kinds of clouds are misbehaving – appearing more often and lower in the sky than they used to. To help identify the factors influencing these changes (e.g. shifts in Earth’s long-termContinue Reading
NASA Headquarters Events & Programs All upcoming events are being held within the Webb Auditorium, NASA Headquarters, 300 E St SW, Washington DC and are appropriate for all ages. Seating is available on a first-come first-serve basis and pre-registration is requested. Questions? Email Us! about Location 300 E St SW,Continue Reading
5 min read NASA’s COFFIES Uses AI to Predict Storm-Causing Active Regions on Sun As humanity looks to the Moon and stars for future exploration, predicting space weather — conditions in space primarily driven by the Sun — is more important than ever. Now, a team of astrophysicists and dataContinue Reading
State Democratic officials are preparing for chaos at the polls this November, as President Traitor 47 casts doubt on election security and pushes for more federal involvement in local voting. “We’re no longer talking about hypothetical situations,” said Nick Brown, Washington state’s Democratic attorney general, noting the president’s push toContinue Reading
This story was originally published by High Country News. When tired Mormon settlers crested the Wasatch Mountains in July 1847 and first beheld the Great Salt Lake, they almost didn’t believe their eyes. But this was no mirage. And though the vast lake turned out to be saline, they knewContinue Reading
This story was originally published by Sentient. Plans to build the world’s first commercial octopus farm are dead. On July 22, the Port Authority of Las Palmas announced that Nueva Pescanova, the Spanish seafood giant behind the proposal, had withdrawn its application to build the octopus farm in the Canary Islands. How didContinue Reading
It’s been more than a month since the Federal Drug Administration linked Taylor Farms to the deadly cyclospora outbreak, and yet the agency is only just now sending investigators to visit the produce grower’s facilities. Investigators with the FDA finally arrived at Taylor Farms’ operation in Mexico to inspectContinue Reading
LONDON — The U.K. imposed a temporary ban on the sale of disposable barbecues and sent a nationwide alert warning of a “very high risk of wildfires” as European countries battle to keep blazes under control., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
Weeks after two powerful earthquakes ravaged La Guaira, Venezuela, grieving survivors now face a slow, uncertain recovery., Read MoreContinue Reading