Molex Makes Biggest Connection Yet in $7.2 Billion Deal

Interconnections Product Maker With Global Integrated Technical & Information Systems Electronic connector maker Molex, based in Lisle, Illinois, USA, was purchased on Monday by privately-held conglomerate Koch Industries for $7.2 billion. Molex, with yearly net…

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Automating Wild Turkey Bourbon Production

Wild Turkey bourbon has been in production for more than a century. The original batch, created in 1855, is a mix of corn, rye and malt barley. Nearly 100 years later, in 1940, Thomas McCarthy,…

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Better Seeing Cameras That Mimic the Human Eye

Swiss scientists are developing an innovative new camera that mimics the retina of the human eye called the DVS128 Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS), developed by iniLabs, a division of Institute of Neuroinfomatics based in Zurich.…

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Electric Cars Travel Further On New Ceramic Battery Technology

Britain’s National Physical Laboratory has designed and developed a new high temperature ceramic capacitor in hopes of improving the use of electric and hybrid vehicles, which could mean that the vehicles can travel much greater…

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Is The Boeing 787 A Pandora’s Box of Trouble?

Boeing’s sophisticated 787 Dreamliner jet is proving to be the problem child for Boeing as the problems keep returning one after the other. Boeing prefers to call them just glitches or teething problems. The 787,…

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World’s Largest Vacuum Chamber Simulates Deep Space Environment

Aerospace engineers put equipment planned for space through as many tests as possible to ensure durability in harsh space environments. In a recent talk by an engineer working with the Mars Rover project, the fact…

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Window Coatings That Can Save Your House Energy And Money

Scientists have developed a new coating that can be applied to window glass that will change how sunlight passes through so as to save energy. The US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is…

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Biggest U.S. Rocket Launches Intelligence Gathering Satellite

The United States launched its biggest rocket from the central California coast on Wednesday 28th Sep’13. The 235 foot tall (around 23 stories) rocket carrying a top-secret spy satellite blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force…

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Looking For Fun? The World’s Longest Water Slide, Largest Chute & Steepest Roller Coaster

From elementary school playground slides to race cars and F-16’s it is clear humans enjoy the thrill of speed. When speed can be combined with other sensations like cool water on a hot day or…

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Space Age Floating Lillypad Cities Inspired By Natural Disasters

Very Large Floating Structures (VLFS) If and when the seas begin to rise to the point where whole islands or even nations are underwater: Kiribati, Maldives, Seychelles, Torres Straight Islands, Tegua, Solomon Islands, Micronesia, Palau,…

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