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Can Xue is an award-winning writer from China often touted as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Direct measurement of forces within the rough bed layer have been limited by previous spatial-averaging shear force studies. A highly sensitive force transducer assembled with a target sphere was used to measure and record the instantaneous three-dimensional forces of sediment at incipient motion. In the current study, a laser Doppler anemometer, ultrasonic displacement meter, and a force transducer accompanied by video recordings were used to experimentally investigate the incipient motion of s...

PBS NewsHour correspondent Miles O’Brien had the opportunity to see what it would feel like to fly in an air taxi above San Francisco. The journalist took a trip in NASA’s vertical motion simulator trying to find out more on the concept of electric flying.