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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2543: Clara Adams Takes Flight

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 1, 2023 · Episode: 2543 Clara Adams: 150,000 miles of maiden flights. Today, Clara Adams flies.

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Posted on May 28, 2023 · Episode: 2626 Little airplanes riding in big airplanes — but they’re called Parasites. Today, parasite airplanes.

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Hovering cars, superconductors, and liquified hydrogen: UH researcher offers an intriguing concept for future highways

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Posted on May 5, 2023 · Dr. Zhifeng Ren from the University of Houston explains his concept, which was just published in the journal APL Energy.

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Posted on May 5, 2023 · On Friday's show: It may sound like science fiction, but research from the University of Houston outlines a fuel-efficient concept for moving vehicles along a modified highway system of the future at up to 400 miles an hour, making some aspects of air travel obsolete.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2592: The Steep Ascent

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Posted on May 1, 2023 · Episode: 2592 The Steep Ascent: Anne Morrow Lindbergh fascinatingly fuses fact and fiction. Today, fact and fiction meet.

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