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A Glasgow pupil who designed a solar-powered backpack with an electric blanket inside to help homeless people has been named on Time magazine’s first ever Girls of the Year list. Rebecca Young was just 11 when she came up with the idea after becoming concerned about people sleeping on the streets during a freezing Scottish winter. Image: Rebecca Young. Pic: …

Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan beat the altitude record for a solar-powered electric plane in a flight that took him soaring to 9,521 meters, or 31,237 feet, his team announced Wednesday. The SolarStratos plane made the landmark flight from Sion airport in southwest Switzerland on Tuesday, taking advantage of warm air thermals to go beyond the record that has stood for …

Both the U.S. and China have set their sights on the Moon, aiming to break ground on permanent lunar bases within the next decade. Though there’s no legal basis for claiming territory in space, whichever country gets there first will gain a coveted first-mover advantage, allowing it to set certain ground rules about who can do what, where. But getting …

AEROSPACE boffins have unveiled a solar-powered surveillance drone that can fly for several months at a time – achieving near-constant eyes in the sky. US tech startup Skydweller Aero has partnered with French defence systems specialist Thales to build a new type of maritime surveillance drone. 5 The carbon fiber drone is set to fly for up to 90 days …

Meet Skydweller: A solar-powered drone that can fly for 90 days straight — it’s wider and 160 times lighter than a Boeing 747  Live Science Source link