NASA’s New No Flap, Jointless Wings

NASA Testing New Adaptive & Jointless Wings As we recently reported in “How Eagles Deal with Turbulence Could Save Airline Passengers’ Lives“,  eagles have “collapsible wings” they can suddenly tuck close to their bodies when…

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Process Automation: Monitoring “Health” Of Iron Ore Plant

Industrial Process Automation Today’s industrial operations are run on software, control systems, and embedded computing all with an eye toward efficiency, optimizing customer assets and outdoing the competition. It is an “arms race” if you…

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Vertical Farming Factories Delivering Eco-Produce

IndustryTap has reported on recycled shipping container farms, urban farming technology, and Do It Yourself (DIY) farming machines and equipment. All these and more are simply waypoints to a sustainable future for humanity. In order…

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Little Sun: Turning Thinking Into Doing

Cheap, Handheld Solar Light Could Dramatically Change Lives Of 1.5 Billion According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), 25% of the worlds population is without electricity. As most of these people are poor they must…

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Overcoming Economic & Technical Challenges To A Moon Colony

There are dreamers and then there are engineers and financiers. Humans are currently reveling in the idea of traveling back to the moon, mining asteroids and traveling on to Mars. But when we consider just…

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A Short History Of Cryptography & Its Quantum Future

Codemakers vs. Codebreakers The image above shows Nobel prize winners Walther Nernst (Chemistry, 1920), Albert Einstein (Physics, 1921), Max Planck (Physics, 1918) Robert Millikan (Physics, 1923) and Max von Laue (Physics, 1914) in Berlin in…

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Unlocking the Full Potential of Smart Urban Centers

Analyzing City Data Leads to Global Smart Urban Centers New York City has begun unlocking its full potential as a global smart urban center; it has one of the oldest subway systems in the world…

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Sixteen-Year-Old Student Develops Bioplastic from Banana Peels

Don’t slip on that banana peel. Don’t throw it away. Banana peels can be used to reduce petroleum-based pollution and create bio-plastic. A 16-year-old student from Istanbul named Elif Bilgin developed a chemical process that…

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Space-Based Solar Panels Require Advanced Telerobotics

Isaac Asimov described the first space based solar panels transmitting solar energy back to earth in his 1941 sci-fi novel Reason. With the renewable energy industry continuing its hectic growth, a number of companies around the…

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Robot Security Guards Read 300 License Plates Per Minute at Just $4.17/hr

Robots Security Guards Surveil with Cameras & Sensors A science fiction novel called “robonomics” posits a future economic system in which robots and digital systems do nearly all of the productive work of society. But…

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