Engineering

Electrochemical Power Generation: Fuel Cells Making Great Strides

While wind and solar energy are in the spotlight most often these days, other forms of renewable energy are making strides. Fuel cell technology, for example, is now helping power large utilities, next generation fuel…

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World’s Largest Photograph – A Football Field-Sized 365 Gigapixel Panorama of Mont Blanc

An international team led by photographer Filippo Blengin has published a panoramic photograph of Europe’s highest peak. It is the largest photograph ever created. You can zoom into this 365 gigapixel interactive image on the project’s website.…

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Beware: This Text Message Can Crash Your iPhone

A newly discovered bug can instantly crash your iPhone when a certain text is received. The text message is a string of characters in English, Arabic, Marathi (one of India’s twenty-three official languages) and Chinese (in…

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NASA Funds Electricity-Harvesting Robotic Space Eel Destined to Explore Distant Planets

This squid-inspired robot, funded by NASA, is a concept which is destined to explore the seas of Europa (one of Jupiter’s moons) or other distant planetary bodies in near future. The biggest problem for exploration…

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A Chronicle of the Dark Digital Underworld

Most people spend their time on Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Ebay or similar sites and a handful of favorite news sites. In this way, most internet users exist on the tip of the iceberg (see…

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Tesla’s Ultra-Speed Transportation System ‘Hyperloop’ Could Offer 700 mph Rides for Free!

Elon Musk’s tubular Hyperloop transportation system is the world’s next breakthrough in transportation. The Hyperloop track seeks to move people and cargo at super speeds never thought possible. The first $100 million test track for the…

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DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals Start Tomorrow

The image above is from Japan’s proposed 2020 Robot Olympics which it hopes to host alongside its 2020 Summer Olympics. Meanwhile, we are just a day away from yet another DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals taking place…

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USAF Destroys ISIL Targets Using Jihad Selfies

Cervantes in 1604 in Don Quixote wrote “love and war are all one, it is lawful to use sleights and stratagems to attain the wished end.” This saying has been rendered as: “all if fair…

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Scientists Create Mini Human Brains in Lab Dish

Mini Human Brains Could Spur Brain Science Breakthroughs In the 1950’s it was plastics, plastics, plastics. Today its software, software, software including reprogramming the human genome to heal sickness and transform living tissues. With human…

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Undergrad Identifies Tubular Plasma in Earth’s Magnetosphere

Everyone has seen the earth’s magnetic field illustrated by lines drawn around the earth. And it has been theorized for the past 60 years that “atmospheric plasma” forms tubular structures that are aligned with and…

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