Could Three “Great Walls” in Tornado Alley Eliminate Twisters?

Wan-Li Qang-Qeng or “10,000 Li Long Wall”, aka the Great Wall of China, was built as a fortification to protect the Chinese Empire from northern nomadic invaders. There is some disagreement on the length of…

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Freedom Industries Fined $11,000 for West Virginia Chemical Spill

In January, a storage tank with the chemical designation MCHM, 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, belonging to Freedom Industries, spilled into the Elk River and left 300,000 people in West Virginia without drinking water for 10 days. Many people expected…

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Is Thorium the Safer, Cleaner, More Powerful Alternative to Fossil Fuels?

A Clean Source of Energy That Will Be Available Forever Thorium, discovered in 1828, is abundant in the earth and has been used since in industrial processes. Not only that, thorium just might underlie the…

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Certified Igus Cables Withstand Hurricanes and Cyclones to Meet the World’s Rising Demand for Oil

FPSO’s (Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels) are massive floating oil production facilities with extreme storage space, located miles offshore. These vessels are capable of producing millions of barrels of oil while floating in the…

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Awesome New Cooler Invention Is Raising Money At a Record-Pace on Kickstarter!

Oregonian, Ryan Grepper, listed his “Coolest Cooler” on Kickstarter merely four days ago and has raised $3.2 million already! The new cooler innovation could quite possibly set the Kickstarter fundraising record as the original goal…

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Automation is Changing Every Component of the Modern Farm

Precision agriculture is poised to change nearly every component of the modern farm. Cattle farmers now have the option to utilize automated milking systems. With the help of robots and microchips attached to a cow’s…

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Ultrasound Breakthrough Could Make Technology 1,000 Times Sharper

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy‘s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, have achieved a breakthrough in ultrasound technology. They showed a technique for creating, detecting and controlling ultrahigh frequency sound waves at the nanometer scale.…

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Brazil World Cup 2014’s High-Tech Legacy

Over the past several weeks, 64 soccer teams have fought to reach the pinnacle of world football (soccer), and now it’s down to the final two. Argentina will face Germany for the World Cup 2014…

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Smart Helmets Convey Live Information to Soldiers on the Battlefield

As smartphones have changed the way we communicate, the ARC4 will bring revolution in the manner we see and interact with the world around us. Applied Research Associates has developed a Google Glass-like augmented reality system designed for…

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Watch This Robot Repair Itself in Outer Space

Dextre is a multipurpose robotic tool, currently aboard the International Space Station, and is about to undergo a project to repair itself. Here is what will happen according to the CSA: Dextre will start by…

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