Government Shoots Down Sierra Nevada’s Space Taxi Deal Protest

Sierra Nevada Corp’s protest of NASA awarding $6.8 billion in contracts to SpaceX and Boeing to develop space taxis has reportedly been rejected by the Government Accountability Office. Boeing’s contract is worth $4.2 billion while…

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New Wind Tree Design: Green “Leaves” Are Actually Wind Turbines

With an eye on art and a brain on science, energy conservation can have an aesthetic, as well as ecological, reward. In a testament to the value of taking time to ponder and let the…

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1000 MPH Model Kit: Building The BLOODHOUND Supersonic Car

The BLOODHOUND Supersonic Car kit contains over 3,500 components, many custom-made, including: a state-of-the-art Rolls-Royce EJ200 jet engine – normally found in the Eurofighter Typhoon jetfighter; a cluster of Nammo hybrid rockets – developed to…

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India’s Bold, Visionary Smart City Initiative

Amsterdam claims to be the EU’s first smart city, having identified five themes that make a city smart: CO2 awareness, dwelling refurbishment, shared working spaces, sustainable transport and open data. But Amsterdam has just 800,000…

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Think You Have What It Takes To Take On This Sharpshooting Beer Pong Robot?

A Boston-based company, Empire Robotics, has successfully developed a beer pong playing robot sure to be the envy of any party. Empire Robotics explains how Versaball works below: The green ball is filled with a sand-like…

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Wind Farms Use Electric Grid To Thaw Icing Blades

IndustryTap wrote “Wind Turbine De-Icing Technology Keeps Blades Turning in Harsh Conditions” about new wind farms both on and offshore battling icy turbine blades. Turbines are programmed to stop rotating when ice builds up reducing electricity…

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Hemp Holds Promise As Supercapacitor: Hemp Nanosheets Might Even Outdo Graphene

Recent attempts to improve the energy density of supercapacitors by inventing better electrodes have focused on the properties of graphene to achieve that end. But now it seems that hemp could meet that goal at a…

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Zaha Hadid to Design New Bee’ah HQ

A leading environmental and waste management company in the United Arab Emirates, Bee’ah, has commissioned Zaha Hadid Architects to build its new headquarters building in Sharjah. The splendid 7,000 sq m building will seek LEED…

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Citysens Hydroponic Garden is a Breath of Fresh Air

Today, more than 50% of the world population lives in cities, breathing air that is becoming increasingly polluted day by day. Luckily, certain types of plants can purify the air in our homes. But growing greenery…

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Meet the Airbus Beluga Super Transporter

One of the more interesting birds in the sky these days is the Airbus Beluga, also known as the A300-600ST Super Transporter. Beluga was designed as a heavy cargo aircraft to ferry parts of Airbus planes…

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