“Idea Factories” & STEM Students: A Recipe For High Performance Industries & High Wage Jobs

Closing the Skills Gap in the United States According to The National Institutes of Health, “stem cells” start out “unspecialized” and are thus capable of becoming specialized through a process of differentiation controlled by a…

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Caterpillar Sales Keep Dipping, Specifically In Its Asia/Pacific Segment

Caterpillar just released its latest 3-month rolling retail sales statistics and unfortunately for the machine maker, the company’s sales keep falling. There was a decline in total machine retail sales worldwide, down 12% in May,…

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Vibrating Gloves Teach Braille in Minutes

Blind and partially sighted people rely on Braille to do everything from get money at the ATM to read menus. But many people find Braille difficult to learn. Now, researchers from the Georgia Institute of…

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Kuka Aerospace To Open 29,000 Square Foot Facility Next To Boeing In Everett

Kuka Aerospace announced that it is opening a brand new 29,000 square foot facility in Everett, Washington, only the second United States location for the German robot giant. The new facility will mostly be used…

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These Dudes Made a Boat Out of Plastic Bottles… Now They Are Sailing Over 500 Miles!

Jan Kara, 22, a student, and mechanic Jakub Bures, 21, like many of us, are tired of seeing pollution all around the world. In their Czech town of Nymburk, the duo decided to make a…

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Scientists Develop Self-Cooling Solar Panels That Produce More Power

Scientists have overcome major trouble in developing high-efficiency, long-lasting solar cells. Under normal operating conditions, when solar panels reach temperatures of 130 degrees Fahrenheit (55 degrees Celsius) and above, the intense heat quickly saps efficiency…

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The United States FAA Bars All American Airlines From Flying Over Syria

The FAA said in a statement, “The ongoing armed conflict and volatile security environment in Syria poses a serious potential threat to civil aviation,” and as a result barred all US planes from flying over…

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You Won’t Believe the Customer for America’s 2014 Biggest Weapons Sale

The largest single sale of United States weaponry in 2014 is going to… Qatar? Yep! That’s right. A country with a population under 300,000 people is purchasing $11 billion in Patriot missile batteries and Apache…

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Eurobot Rover Driven On Earth By Astronaut 250 Miles Above It, On The International Space Station!

Test-driving rovers/robots is extremely common, but typically the operator and the rover are at the same place, at the same time the testing is going on. On August 7th, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst…

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Even Blacker Than… Black? Meet Vantablack, The Blackest Black Ever!

Anyone who’s ever tried to piece together a little black outfit knows there are at least “50 shades of black.” There’s blue black, grey black, charcoal black. And now there’s Vantablack, the blackest black ever.…

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