World’s Largest Aqueducts, Moving Billions Of Gallons Of Water Daily

Two of the more interesting tunnels that humans build are transportation tunnels for trains and cars and water aqueducts supplying large cities. The largest existing aqueduct in the world is the Thirlmere Aqueduct in North…

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Battling Dust And Heat, SMI Aids In US Military Installations

When most people think of a work road trip, Afghanistan isn’t what normally comes to mind. However, the job had to be done and these guys were ready to take it on. Screen Machine Industries (SMI), Inc.,…

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NASA Contractor GGB Develops Innovative Two-Piece Double-Flanged Bearings

GGB Bearing Technology: A World of Bearings One of the most important mechanical inventions of all time was the wheel because it lessened the force of friction involved in movement. Bearings, based on the wheel,…

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$1 Billion In Digital Currency, Is Bitcoin Electronic Gold?

New Virtual Currecy Bitcoin is a virtual digital currency payment system for worldwide payments with low or zero processing fees and no intermediary financial institutions such as a central bank or central organization. Bitcoin was…

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One Trillion Sensors Embedded in Humans and Machines by 2020

According to scientists, humanity has begun its next major shift: we are now entering the “Hybrid Age”. Across the entire range of scientific and technological disciplines changes are occurring that were unimaginable a few decades…

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Removing Billions Of Vehicle Miles With Cost-Effective Electric Monorails

The world’s oldest operating transportation monorail (“schwebebahan” in German) built in 1901 in Wuppertal, Germany, stretches 8.3 miles (13.3 km), has 20 stations, a top speed of 34 mph (56 kph) and still carries 82,000…

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The World’s Largest Floating Airport, Tokyo Bay’s Megafloat

Eighty percent of land in Japan is mountainous and plains between them are close to completely populated with residential and business buildings. Making room for huge projects like airports is becoming increasingly difficult. As a…

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First Successful Cloned Stem Cells Created From Human Skin Cells

It’s been 17 years since Dolly the sheep was cloned from a mammary cell. And now scientists applied the same technique to make the first embryonic-stem-cell lines from human skin cells. Ever since Ian Wilmut,…

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Three Gorges Dam Utopian Vision More Like An Ecological Catastrophe

Yangtze River Has Been Crippled According to a Chinese proverb, “flowing water is not stagnant.” Unfortunately, the once mighty Yangtze River is now stagnant in key areas making it, in many places, a mud-clogged mess.…

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5 Steps To Isolate Your Own DNA

Molecular biologist D Barry Starr runs the Tech Museum of Innovation at Stanford University, a hands-on museum for all ages. Starr explains how to extract your own DNA. 1. Gather your cells Slosh 10ml of a sports drink…

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