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Popular Mechanics November 2006 Logan Ward |
Robo-Husky: Teaching a Robotic Dog to Walk Funded by the military research agency DARPA, the bizarre, four-legged creature may someday haul heavy loads and keep troops out of some high-risk locations. |
Popular Mechanics November 2006 Logan Ward |
Bulb Slayer: Lighting the World with LEDs Innovators Michael Bowers, James McBride and Sandra Rosenthal win the Breakthrough Award 2006 for developing a more environmentally friendly way of lighting. |
Popular Mechanics November 2006 Logan Ward |
Burt Rutan: Final Frontiersman Rutan is working to make space travel cheap enough-and safe enough-for ordinary people to experience. If anyone can pull that off, says Apollo 11 astronaut and PM editorial adviser Buzz Aldrin, it's probably Rutan. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 John Voelcker |
Top 10 Tech Cars Electric cars are back: Tesla 2007 Roadster... Honda FCX/Concept... GMC 2008 Yukon Two-Mode Hybrid... Fiat: 2007 Siena Tetrafuel... Volkswagen 2007 Golf GT TSI... Chrysler 2007 Sebring... etc. |
Popular Mechanics November 2006 Wise & Hutchinson |
The Truth About Hydrogen Can the simplest element in the universe really power our homes, fuel our cars and reduce our contribution to global warming? PM crunches the numbers on the real hydrogen economy. |
Wired July 2003 Carl Hoffman |
The Right Stuff Forget cyberspace. Geeks are about to conquer outer space. And the $10 million X Prize is just the beginning. |
Wired August 2002 Dan Baum |
GM's Billion-Dollar Bet The hydrogen car has been a long time coming. GM is betting $1 billion that the end of internal combustion is near. |
Wired April 2003 Schwartz & Randall |
How Hydrogen Can Save America The cost of oil dependence has never been so clear. Consumers are ready for an alternative. From Detroit to Dallas, even the oil establishment is primed for change. We put a man on the moon in a decade; we can achieve energy independence just as fast. Here's how. |
Popular Mechanics September 2008 |
Inside the Future of Electric Cars, Hydrogen and Next-Gen Biofuels The market has never looked better for alternative fuels and electric vehicles. |
Popular Mechanics February 6, 2008 Chuck Tannert |
Inside Plug-in Car Tech's Race to Production (and Top 10 Rides) Big automakers and promising startups say electric vehicles are coming as soon as next year, but there's a lot of work to be done by scientists before lithium-ion batteries are ready for mainstream hybrids. |
Inc. January 2005 David H. Freedman |
Entrepreneur of the Year In the entrepreneurial achievement of 2004, Burt Rutan became the first private businessman to launch human beings into space. His ultimate goal: to make space flight routine -- and turn a big profit. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2005 John Voelcker |
Top 10 Tech Cars From Toyota to Porsche, a host of hybrids... The Land Rover 'switch-hitter'... The 'super handling' Acura RL... A 'bullet-proof' Mercedes... Limited edition Ferrari Fetish... Michelin's concept cars... etc. |
Popular Mechanics April 2006 Leslie Sabbagh |
Survival of the Oldest Payload Ever: The Stardust Spacecraft Returns to Earth After seven years and 2.9 billion miles, the Stardust spacecraft sent back to Earth the oldest material ever collected. |
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 John Voelcker |
Driving GM's New Hydrogen Car The radical thing about Chevy's hydrogen concept car is how normal it feels to drive. Outside, the Sequel is a sleek, stylish SUV. But underneath, it has little in common with today's cars beyond wheels and tires. |
Wired April 2005 Lisa Margonelli |
China's Next Cultural Revolution The People's Republic is on the fast track to become the alternative car and alternative fuel capital of the world as the country's central planners try to cope with pollution and energy problems caused by economic growth. |
Fast Company April 2008 Michael Fitzgerald |
Hotbed A trip to the steaming, bubbling badlands of Iceland proves one thing: There is hope for hydrogen. |
Wired January 2005 Spencer Reiss |
Rocket Man Richard Branson conquered the world with the Virgin brand. Now, through a deal being negotiated with SpaceShipOne's owners, he wants to fly you to space with Virgin Galactic, the world's first off-the-planet private airline. |
BusinessWeek September 22, 2009 Jack Ewing |
Hydrogen Cars Are Still Headed for the Highway Advances in fuel-cell technology and a commitment from the German government to build a fueling network mean automakers haven't given up on hydrogen. |
Popular Mechanics September 15, 2008 Daniel Krach |
Living With Hydrogen, Gas Prices Become Incentive for Progress Getting to a future of hydrogen-electric hybrids that will wean us from gasoline for good will require more battery and fuel cell research and convincing Americans that $4/gallon gas can be a good thing. |
Industrial Physicist |
Letters A sheet of graphite is distinctly different in its material and geometric structure from C60 bucky- (nano-) tubes... Hydrogen rules?... etc. |
Chemistry World October 2011 |
Fuelling the Future Fuel cell vehicles have taken a back seat to battery and hybrid power in recent years. But hydrogen still holds promise in the long term. |
Popular Mechanics July 29, 2008 Barbara S. Peterson |
What Virgin's WhiteKnightTwo Really Means to the Future of Space Even with prototypes now just about ready to fly, how relevant is this self-styled New Space Race? |
Wired August 2006 Joshua Davis |
Batteries Included The world's first lithium-ion super car is here. Zero emissions never looked so hot. |
Popular Mechanics August 21, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
NASA's Greatest Mission? Stardust Finds Amino Acids, Keeps on Giving to Science In Stardust's tennis racket shaped aerogel collectors, Michael Zolensky of NASA's Johnson Space Center and his colleagues found lots of surprises. |
Chemistry World March 14, 2013 Mark Peplow |
Hydrogen's false economy Hydrogen will undoubtedly find transport niches, but talk of hydrogen powering a substantial proportion of the planet's billion cars (and counting) is driven more by techno-optimism than evidence. |
Inc. November 2006 |
The Road Crew Cleaning up the nation's highways, one smog-belching vehicle at a time. |
BusinessWeek January 24, 2005 Otis Port |
Hydrogen Cars Are Almost Here, But... There are still serious problems to solve, such as: Where will drivers fuel up? |
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Stardust Landing a Smashing Success Seven years after its launch, NASA's Stardust spacecraft concluded its 4.6-billion-kilometer roundtrip journey to fly through the tail of a comet and collect dust samples, which astronomers hope will offer insight about the formation of our solar system. |
BusinessWeek October 27, 2003 David Welch |
General Motors: Who Needs Hybrids? If concept cars are any indication, then General Motors Corp. is ahead of its rivals in the race to build hydrogen-powered vehicles. |