First Supersonic Private Jet Cuts Your Flight Time in Half for a Mere $80M

Boston-based company Spike consists of former Airbus, Gulfstream, and Bombardier engineers along with a slew of entrepreneurs and investors who are working to develop a supersonic private jet for the ultra-wealthy. The Spike Aerospace S-512…

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Concrete Research Gets a $10 Million Boost

The Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) at MIT has received a funding boost of $10 million from industry partners toward their work and research in effective concrete modeling techniques, construction and reduction of CO2 emissions. The…

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Over 300 Tweeting Sharks Warn You When They’re Close to the Beach

In Western Australia, researchers have tagged 338 sharks with acoustic transmitters that tweet out messages to the Surf Life Saving Western Australia Twitter feed when the sharks are approximately half a mile away from a…

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First Vodka-Powered Text Message Gets in the Canadian Spirit

Besides being one of the most popular spirits in the world, Vodka may also be useful for sending text messages now. The new way of text messaging through chemical systems opens the door to a…

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Navy’s Newest Missile Launcher Resembles Spinning Revolver Barrel

A multi-role Chemring Centurion launcher has successfully fired a Raytheon-Lockheed Martin Javelin missile and hit a static target on Salisbury Plain in England. The new Centurion launcher, in conjunction with Raytheon’s combat missiles, provides an…

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Rose Bowl Rolls Out 2,500 Pound Layers of Grass for BCS Title Game

Wednesday marked the 100th Rose Bowl, a nail-biter in which Michigan State ended up pulling out the victory against Stanford 24-20. Immediately after the game ended, Rose Bowl officials began preparing to install the new…

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403 of Global 500 Companies Report Carbon Footprints But the System is Still Flawed

Companies with $87 Trillion in Assets Want Carbon Footprint Data Just over a decade old, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has become an integral part of monitoring the world’s carbon footprint by creating the largest…

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Google and Apple Race to Build Smart Dashboards for Your Car

Google and Apple are working to turn car dashboards into “smart” dashboards, fully equipped with apps, navigation and music and capable of running off their own mobile operating systems. Audi and Google have collaborated to…

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The World’s Largest Lathe is For Sale

The world’s biggest lathes fashion the world’s largest shafts to spin the world’s largest propellers on the world’s largest ships. And if you’re in need of a lathe, the world’s largest lathe just happens to…

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Mongolia’s Nomads Modernize Their Tents with Solar Power

Solar power is revolutionizing people’s lives all over the world, especially in remote areas. In some parts of the world, it is the only possible source of power. In Mongolia, about 800,000 of the country’s…

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