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How Things Work: radioisotope thermoelectric generators

When you imagine a deep-space probe, what do you see? A big metal box, a forest of antennas, and a pair of solar panels, right? Wrong. Contrary to the...

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Walk around the Carnegie Mellon campus, and chances are that the person next to you is involved in research here. Each and every one of the projects going...

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Automated cars let you drink (coffee) and drive Collaborative efforts between Carnegie Mellon?s Electrical and Computer Engineering department and General...

Chimpanzees conform to their fellows? practices Like humans, chimpanzees are motivated by the desire to do things like their peers and fit in to societal...

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