by Michael Belfiore | Dec 10, 2009 | Articles
Recent breakthroughs in scramjet engines could mean two-hour flights from New York to Tokyo. They could also mean missiles capable of striking any continent in a moment’s notice. No wonder the race to develop them is as fierce as ever. By Michael Belfiore....
by Michael Belfiore | Nov 15, 2009 | Articles
All Things Considered, November 15, 2009. GUY RAZ, host: We’re back with ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I’m Guy Raz. If you’re driving at the moment and you’re using a GPS system for navigation, you can thank a small and somewhat...
by Michael Belfiore | Oct 1, 2009 | Articles
Building a truly useful prosthetic arm remains a major engineering challenge: while new designs show promise, they still can’t beat the utility of a simple hook mechanism that dates back to before World War I. By Michael Belfiore. Invention & Technology...
by Michael Belfiore | Mar 1, 2009 | Articles
Meet the first commercial rocketship pilots. By Michael Belfiore. Air & Space Magazine, March 01, 2009. In the old days it was straightforward enough. The planet had two corps of astronauts, Soviet and U.S., and to join one, you had to be a military test pilot....
by Michael Belfiore | Nov 1, 2007 | Articles
By Michael Belfiore. Wired, November 1, 2007. The question on a lot of people’s minds here at DARPA’s race for driverless cars is “when can I get mine?” So I went and asked Michael Darms, a Continental Automotive Systems engineer working with Carnegie...
by Michael Belfiore | Oct 20, 2007 | Articles
By Michael Belfiore. Financial Times, October 20 2007. How does flying in space for a private company differ from flying for the government? ‘In the commercial world, the time scales involved are being dramatically cut,’ says Brian Binnie. Indeed, Binnie...
