Bamboo to Replace Carbon Fiber in Future Cars
One of the easiest ways to reduce the mileage of vehicles is to decrease the overall weight of the car. Lightweight material like carbon fiber is both strong and light and has been used for…
Engineering
Do You Know Why You’re Accepting the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge?
You’ve seen celebrities, former presidents, rock stars, your co-workers, family and Facebook friends posting videos of ice water being dumped on top of them and asking others to do the same. But why? You may…
Watch This Surfer’s Board Transfer While Riding a Huge Wave
California surfers have been loving the waves the past few days as weather from a Pacific hurricane has been providing them some epic surfing conditions. Danny O’Brien performed a board transfer in the middle of…
Engineer Turned a Boeing 727 Into a House In Portland, Oregon…
Former electrical engineer, Bruce Campbell, has poured about $220,000 into a retired Boeing 727 airplane in order to convert it into a home. Incredibly, Campbell spends 6 months out of the year living on the…
Concrete Domes “Pop Up” Easily with Novel Construction Method
Pick up a shell at the beach and note its dome-like structure. Hermit crabs understand this intuitively, crawling into larger versions as they grow. And 1900 years ago, the Romans built the Pantheon, the world’s…
Worldwide Water Shortage Spells Doom for Big Energy, Boon for Renewables
By 2020, 40% of the world, or nearly 3 billion people, will be struggling mightily with fresh water shortage issues. As IndustryTap reported in Population Growth Could Make Water More Precious Than Gold, our overcrowded…
Tomorrow’s Electric Cars Being Turned into Rolling Computers
The modern car is increasingly being driven by software. Today, an average car might contain as many as 50 microprocessors, each with its own software. Engines, brakes, airbags, transmissions and even power windows are equipped…
Scientists Discover New Methods of Obtaining Stem Cells
A recent study at UC San Francisco has reported new findings in how cell reconstruction can change the standard methods in the way we obtain and treat stem cells. The newly-discovered process takes adult cells…
Lockheed Martin Teaming Up With EOS To Build Facility Specifically For Tracking Space Debris
Lockheed Martin is determined to keep satellites orbiting Earth safe from space debris and has decided to team up with Electro Optic Systems (EOS) to build a facility in Australia dedicated to keeping tabs on…
The World’s Largest Ship Sets World Record for Most Cargo
AP Moeller Maersk, Danish shipping and oil conglomerate, recently deployed the the world’s largest ship, the Maersk Triple-E, with a world record 17,603 containers on board. In total, the cargo ship has a full potential…
