This Amazing Carbon Fibre Pavillion Was Woven By A Robot and other top stories.

• This Amazing Carbon Fibre Pavillion Was Woven By A Robot

  This Amazing Carbon Fibre Pavillion Was Woven By A Robot London’s Victoria & Albert Museum has unveiled an incredibly intricate robotically woven and biologically inspired carbon-fibre pavilion in its courtyard. Images: V&A Museum The structure, constructed as part of the museum’s new engineering season, is built up of 40 hexagonal components that cover over 185 square metres. Each panel is made from a combination of transparent glass fibre and black carbon fibre, woven into a fibrous structu..

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• Sooner-Than-Expected Antarctic Glacier Melt Could Cause Oceans To Rise Six To 13 Feet

  

  Recent examination of the eastern portion of Antarctica reveals startling news. According to an international team of scientists, Totten Glacier is melting faster than anticipated, and when it goes, the world’s oceans may rise by as much as 13 feet. Results of the most recent study of the East Antarctic Ice Shelf (EAIS) were published in the academic journal Nature Geoscience on May 16. Conducted by scientists from Imperial College London in association with research scientists from the United ..

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• Graphene makes rubber more rubbery

  

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• A balloon's journey begins

  

  NASA’s super pressure balloon on an around-the-world test flight NASA has successfully launched a super pressure balloon on a potentially record-breaking, around-the-world test flight aimed at providing inexpensive access to the near-space environment for science and technology research.The purpose of the flight is to test and validate the super pressure balloon (SPB) technology with the goal of long-duration flight (over 100 days) at mid-latitudes.The balloon, launched from Wanaka Airport in ..

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• London To New York In 35 Minutes, Technology Promises Faster Travel

  

  First Posted: May 21, 2016 04:20 AM EDT The recent successful test of hypersonic technology reportedly implies that a flight from London to New York can be made in 35 minutes, and such an event is closer to reality than one could imagine. A collaboration between US-Australian military research teams saw a scramjet attached to a rocket booster being sent to an altitude of 278 kilometers at Mach 7.5, which means seven times the speed of sound, as part of the Hypersonic International Flight Rese..

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