NASA’s $1.5 million Unmanned Aircraft Competition: Can You Make The Skies Safer?

NASA has so many missions it’s hard to keep track of them all: there is a directory listing current and future missions, a launch schedule and the history of past missions. In the coming months…

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Swarm Robotics Mimicking Human Behavior

Humans “swarm” when they get together on opposite sides of a battle field and prepare to fight. The winner is usually the side with the stronger, smarter technology combined with bravery and a superior strategic…

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Biomedical Engineering Is Revolutionizing Medicine

According to Professor Saltzman of Stanford University, biomedical engineering takes science, mathematics and engineering and applies it to improving human health. This article is a quick overview of some of the older technologies and activities…

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Big Ben And The London Eye’s New Rival, 35 Story ArcelorMittal Orbit Sculpture (Slide Show)

After an Olympics costing the British $14.5 billion (9.3 billion pounds) the ArcelorMittal Orbit remains controversial. The “random and chaotic” design or what the Guardian called “the infinitely looping lattice” of the $24 million (16…

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Oculus Rift Is The Virtual Reality Headset Gaming Has Been Waiting For

Oculus Rift, a product of Oculus VR Inc. (OR), is a headset that fully immerses a player into a game; the platform also has a “Head Tracking Kit” allowing developers to write software for the…

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With More Than 4 Billion Years Experience, Is Nature The Best Engineer?

National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge – Sustainability Building sustainable societies using nature as a model is one of humanities great challenges and is a key to our future according to the National Academy of…

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Planet IQ Can Improve Environmental Disaster Predictions, Saving Millions

In a recent IndustryTap article on hurricanes, MIT professor of atmospheric science, Emanuel describes the US weather data collecting system as hopelessly out of date and behind the times so that scientists and engineers are…

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Mining Asteroids Will Create A Trillion-Dollar Industry, The Modern Day Gold Rush?

Big Dreams Live: Revolutionizing the Economics of Space Travel Claiming they have identified the new “Iron Range of Minnesota” the vast store of natural resources upon which the US automobile industry was built over decades,…

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The Ten Fastest Growing Markets & Technologies Worldwide (Slide Show)

In this article we will take a look at the ten fastest growing markets and technology worldwide in 2013. 1. Smartphones & Smart Apps Recent reports are that the desktop market is flat and the…

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Google Invests $12 Million In 96 Megawatt South African Solar Site

Google has just invested $12 million USD in a new solar energy project in South Africa; it is the internet giant’s first renewable energy investment outside of North America and Europe. The project is called…

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