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NASA is making a powerful new ion engine to send astronauts to Mars

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than previous ion engines.

Rocket League Devs Explain How Unreal Engine Powers the Paris Major

Rocket League developers at the Paris Major detail how Epic Games uses Unreal Engine to run live stadium tech and eliminate ...
Arizona Daily Sun

Carpenter's Column: Who will help you move…a body?

This week's column from Tom Carpenter ...

Teaching thermodynamic laws to AI unlocks a polymer modeling challenge

For more than half a century, materials scientists have struggled with how to simulate the complexity of polymer materials.
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Coming Soon to a Roblox Game Near You: Strange AI-Generated Machines and Creatures

Coming Soon to a Roblox Game Near You: Strange AI-Generated Machines and Creatures ...

Scientists Just Tested a Thruster Powerful Enough for Human Missions to Mars

NASA’s new electric propulsion engine set a U.S. power record and could transform future Mars missions. The thrusters use ...
IEEE

Using game physics engines for hardware-in-the-loop material flow simulations: benefits, requirements and experiences

Abstract: Object of this paper is the proposal of using existing physics engines mainly deployed in video games and movie animations for simulating material flow applications with a high degree of ...