“Ferrumivorous” Plants, Eat Toxic Metal Waste, Could Kick Off “Green Mining” Revolution

Hyperaccumulators Could “Vacuum” Heavy Metals From Contaminated Soil If plants can be carnivores, mostly consumers of insects, why can’t they be “ferrumivores”, “ferrumivorous” or metal eaters? Fortunately, it turns out they can and they are.…

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NASA’s Robonaut Inspires Tech Advances

Researchers at NASA, in collaboration with General Motors (GM), designed a state-of-the-art, highly dexterous humanoid robot known as Robonaut in 2011. It is made up of multiple component technologies and systems — vision systems, image…

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Amazon Threatens To Move Drone Research Abroad As Tension With FAA Rises

Amazon has alerted the Federal Aviation Authority that its plans to move its drone research abroad if the FAA does not relax its stern stance towards drone regulation in the United States. “Without the ability…

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Revolutionary Hydrogen Fuel Advance May Lead To Large Scale Production

Supplanting Fossil Fuels With Hydrogen Fuel The Virginia Tech football team may be having a tough season, but scientists at the Blacksburg, Virginia institution have been making up for it through the discovery of a…

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Scientists Save Thousands With a $250 DIY Microscope

Microscopes are very sophisticated instruments and often require significant investments, sometimes thousands of dollars. To cut the research costs, a Brunel University London student has developed a DIY microscope. Dr. Adam Lynch, a postdoctoral candidate at…

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Biomimicry: Learning Efficiency & Sustainability From Living Organisms

If your company is attempting to overcome a technological challenge, chances are that somewhere in the natural world an organism or organisms have spent millennia perfecting a solution to your problem. If your design process…

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Fossil Fuel Costs Driving New Era Of Aerospace Computational Engineering

Most would agree that the fossil fuel age has delivered more than its fair share of benefits to humanity. But like the party guest who stays a bit too long or an in-law overstaying his…

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This Is What One Drop of Viper Venom Does To Human Blood…. It’s Horrifying!

Many snakes aren’t venomous, and in fact most snakes are relatively harmless. However, the ones that exhibit a deadly bite have been feared by humans since the beginning of time and for good reason. In…

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If You Ask Elon Musk… Artificial Intelligence Can Certainly Take Over Humans One Day

Artificial intelligence has come a long way and even that is a bit of an understatement. Today, robots are being used in manufacturing, scientific research, and battlefields. Amazon is even planning to utilize drones in order to deliver…

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BetaRay: “Giant Marble Ball” Harvests 70% More Solar Energy Than Photovoltaic Modules

Harvesting Sunlight For Electricity Or Thermal Energy Nearly everyone once held a magnifying glass in hand and concentrated the sun to burn a leaf or grass. We were told that the magnifying glass had a…

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