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Five years ago, in 2021, American space agency NASA announced it is working on yet another project that doesn’t involve, well, space: the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core (HyTEC). Since then, NASA’s ...
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In a long-running collaboration with GE Aerospace, researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia have been steadily ...