Owl Wing Aeroacoustic Design Quieting Wind Turbines
One of the keys to owls being great hunters is their ability to swoop down on prey without making a noise. Whether a wing is part of an owl, a plane, or a turbine blade, the…
Engineering
Create Your Own Organisms with Desktop DNA Sequencing
According to Kevin Davies, author of “The $1000 Genome” and “Cracking the Genome,” and founding editor of Nature Genetics and Bio-IT World, a company called BGI has debuted a new desktop DNA sequencing technology, the BGISEQ 500,…
“Learning Machine Algorithms” Now Powering the World
Creating Cleverer & Cleverer Machines The smartphone we carry around is an automated learning machine as are large companies like Google and Amazon. While the current stage of artificial intelligence is our de facto librarian,…
NYC-Based 3D-Printing Startup, Shapeways, Raises $30M and Might Look to Expand to Asia
Shapeways, a 3D-printing New York City-based startup, has raised $30 million with eyes on global expansion, most notably building a factory in Asia. The latest round of funding was led by Netherlands-based INKEF Capital and…
NASA’s Prandtl-m Protoype Weighs Under 1 Pound But Could Be Key to Exploring Mars
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center is interested in exploring the skies of Mars, but the idea is easier than the actual execution. Currently, NASA is developing a prototype of a flying wing aircraft called Prandtl-m,…
World’s Most Powerful Natural Gas Turbine Powers 500,000 Homes
General Electric has offered H-Class gas turbines for the past 10 years, but GE recently spent $1 billion to create its latest and most powerful H-Class gas turbine that is just in time to help…
Try Not to Vomit Watching Switzerland’s New Starlight Amusement Park Ride!
Switzerland’s new Tourbillon amusement park ride is called Starlight, but in reality there is nothing light about it. In fact, the ride aims to offer an anti-gravity experience by spinning you on three axes as…
Engineering Challenges in Building the World’s Tallest Flagpole
Standing Tall & Strong The tallest flagpole in North America is the Acuity flagpole at Acuity Insurance headquarters in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and it is visible from 9 miles away. The pole is 400 feet tall,…
The Fabulous Palazzo Italia Building in Milan Purifies the Air With Its Smog-Filtering Façade
Palazzo Italia building at the Milan Expo 2015 is clad with a smog-filtering façade. Designed by Italian architectural firm Nemesi & Partners, it was the winning project in an international competition adjudicated by Expo 2015…
This Innovative Bendable Bike Can’t Be Stolen!
Bike theft is a major problem all over the world. This problem has only increased with more bikes on the roads as more and more riders try to go green. Bike owners need to spend a…
