Within the next 15 years, NASA, China, and SpaceX plan to send the first crewed missions to Mars. In all three cases, these missions are meant to culminate in the creation of surface habitats that ...

A breakthrough in laser propeller efficiency by Chinese scientists could transform underwater watercraft propulsion. SCMP reported that the experts have improved laser propeller efficiency, which ...

Summary: A groundbreaking development (that ended up being an April Fools joke…) for the Virginia-class: a story about a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) drive system. The Virginia-Class Is Getting a Big ...

HRL Laboratories, LLC has demonstrated proof-of-concept on a unique approach to achieve a silent pumping system that replaces traditional mechanical moving parts with an electric current and a ...

Taking a plot point from the 1990 Sean Connery movie thriller The Hunt for Red October, DARPA is working on a super-silent submarine drive that has no moving parts and provides propulsion through the ...

Looking back through the archives, we actually haven’t seen much in the way of homebrew magnetohydrodynamic drives (MHDs) — which is somewhat surprising, as the core concept isn’t nearly as ...

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