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During the test, the 156-foot-long BOLE solid rocket motor produced upwards of 4 million pounds of thrust.
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Research assistant Alyssa Carpenter inspects timbers from of a wooden Revolutionary War-era gunboat to prepare for the craft's partial reconstruction at the New York State Museum, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Albany, New York.
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University of Delaware researcher Guoquan Huang has received a National Science Foundation grant to design attack-resilient micro aerial vehicles.
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Research by the University of Delaware's Thomas H. Epps, III, and his team documents the design of low-cost, high-performance wood-based polymers. The wood comes from waste from the pulp and paper industry.
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