Medical Implants That Dissolve When The Body Heals

Doctors have been using stitches that dissolve in the body for years. Now ultra thin electronic implants, made of special materials, are being used for a wide range of medical and consumer devices and products.…

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Reconstructing The Columbia Space Shuttle After Explosion

Challenger Disaster, 1986 I was working on the floor of the American Stock Exchange on January 28, 1986, the day Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just after launch, killing all seven crew members on board.…

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This Is the Million-Dollar Design for Darpa’s Crowdsourced Tank

Defense Suppliers On Defensive vs. Crowdsource Alternative DARPA recently awarded $1 million to “Team Ground Systems” made up of three designers who built a new drivetrain for an amphibious tank, the “Fast, Adaptable, Next-Generation Ground…

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Green Energy Creating Giant Distributed Utilities Powered By You

At a TED conference this week entrepreneur Elon Musk predicted solar and wind energy revolutions would create a “giant distributed utility” bigger and more powerful than monopolistic utilities existing today. Additionally, a recent report from…

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Always Hungry? Miniature Electronic Implant Will Control Your Appetite

“Neuroblocking” The Breadbasket Bioscience pioneers EnteroMedics of the US and MRC Clinical Sciences Centre (MRC-CSC) of the UK believe a miniature implantable device, just a few millimeters wide, attached via electrodes to the vagus nerve in…

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FSO Syrena Sports Car Ressurected

The Fabryka Samochodaw Osobowych (FSO) Syrena Sport was inspired by the look of Ferrari models and the Mercedes-Benz 190SL in the late 1950s but never made it into mass production though a handful were produced.…

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This Building Will Eat Smog And Look Good Doing It

American Architect Richard Meier’s “White Sails” Coated With New Material Italcementi Group, technical sponsor of a new church in Rome commemorating the 2,000th anniversary of Christianity, was asked to come up with a cement that…

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Earth Based Laser Telescopes Now Seeing Better Than $1.2 Billion Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was carried into lower earth orbit outside the Earth’s atmosphere by the space shuttle in 1990. Hubble has a 7.9 ft (2.4 m) aperture. Hubble’s orbit allows it to observe ultraviolet,…

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DNA Is The Next Big Data Storage Technology

Macrocosm of Data Finds New Home Finally a solution to the bailiwick of CIOs everywhere. As data continues to amass current methods of storing it will soon be mothballed. News from Harvard that bacteria in…

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Bloomberg Announces 2013 New Energy Pioneers From Around The World

Bloomberg’s sixth annual New Energy Finance Summit in New York City recognizes 10 leading companies out of more than 200 from around the world from energy sectors including bioenergy, energy efficiency, digital energy and solar…

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