Siemens $1.6 Billion Contract To Deliver 1,140 New Carriages To The British Rail Network

Siemens recently announced that they have been rewarded the Thameslink train contract and will manufacture and deliver 1,140 new carriages for the British rail network to the tune of £1.6 billion. This is all part…

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The Connected Car: 45 Billion Hours A Year Spent On The Road In The USA Alone

Americans spend 45 billion hours a year in their automobiles and recent advances in technology, especially the smart phone, are leading manufacturers to develop new entertainment systems and new profit centers. Big Auto Wants a…

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Nanowires At 1/10000 The Size Of Human Hair Break Solar Cell Efficiency Limits

Building Solar Cells Nanowire By Nanowire The solar cell efficiency limit, known as the “Shockley Queisser Limit” (SQL) has held for many years. But recent research using nanowires seems to show that scientists will soon…

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Using Residual Nerve Reinnervation To Control Prosthetic Limbs

New Hope For Amputees Dr. Todd Kuiken of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago has developed a new surgical procedure that uses residual nerve signals to control a prosthetic limb. Called Targested Muscle Reinnervation (TMR) surgeons…

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78 Killed, 180 Injured As Spain Train Derails At 118 MPH

The world is coming to grips with the horror of the third major train derailment in the past month, this one a dramatic train crash in Santiago de Compostela Spain that killed at least 78…

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New Kevlar Bike Might Be The World’s Fastest

It’s a very strange shape and it’s made out of Kevlar and fibreglass, you may be still trying to figure out what it is but according to its creator, it’s a bike and it might…

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Google Launches $35 Chromecast Video Streaming To Rival Apple TV

Google is making another foray into the living room with the Chromecast, a small $35 dongle that allows users to stream videos from a phone or tablet to their TV using Chrome. Essentially, it turns…

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$33 Trillion Needed To Meet Emission Targets by 2035

Some might call the idea of a profitable $33 trillion (that’s $33,000,000,000,000) investment plan to fix the planets woes “woolgathering” or “oneirism”; if nothing else it dramatizes and presages the magnitude of the task. But…

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Nissan’s Electric Race Car To Hit Speeds Over 180 MPH

In the latest move for electric vehicles, Nissan has revealed their work on an electric racing car that can hit speeds of over 180mph. Taking cues from the Nissan LEAF, the manufacturer’s first 100% electric…

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High Octane Attempt To Birth A Baby Sun

It may sound like an automobile factory but the National Ignition Facility (NIF), finished in 2009, is the world’s largest laser with 192 intense laser beams delivering 60 times more energy than any previous system;…

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