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Million-Year Data Storage Disk May Outlast Mankind

The amount of data that can be stored has increased enormously since IBM introduced the world’s first commercial computer capable of storing 5MB of data on a 24-inch diameter magnetic disk drive back in 1956.…

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Groovy Toyota Changes Colors to Match Your Mood

Remember how popular mood rings were in the 70s? Happy. Sad. Mad. Mood rings supposedly read your mood and change colors to match it. Toyota has come up with, what’s basically, a mood ring on…

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Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (AUVs) Unveil Ocean’s Mysteries

According to scientists, 80% to 90% of the world’s oceans are unexplored. Humans may know more about the moon and outer space than oceans just 15 miles off the world’s coastlines. The Mariana Trench, the…

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$100 Billion Transatlantic “VacTrain” Would Be Largest, Most Complex Project Ever

With the Seikan Tunnel connecting Honshu and Hokkaido in Japan completed in 1988 and the Channel Tunnel completed in 1994 still struggling to turn profits, it is questionable whether the $10 billion, sub-Alps, Gotthard Base Tunnel scheduled for…

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Smog Eating Vacuum Cleaner to Suck Up Beijing’s Black Killer Mists

The common refrain to the young and ambitious from those who are older, wiser and more experienced is twofold: “follow your dreams” and “go where the opportunities lie.” This could mean: New York City for…

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Technology Outsmarts Mother Nature’s Fiery Fury

Climate change has altered weather patterns around the world. According to researchers, as the greenhouse gases warm the earth, we can expect more wildfires across the globe in the near future. Every year, forest fires…

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Safer, Smaller Helium-Cooled Nuclear Reactors at Half the Price?

Last December, IndustryTap wrote “Nuclear Waste Can Power the World for 72 Years,” in which young MIT engineers started a company using modernized nuclear reactor designs developed in the 1950’s. The company, Transatomic Power, with…

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Kingdom Tower to Set New Skyscraper Records … For Now

Last June, we touched on the construction of Sky City in Changsha, China, a towering structure that will peak at 838 meters high. Nearing its completion, the engineers and architects are already hailing it a…

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4G-Loaded Smart Trench Coat Tells You When It’s Raining

Progress in technical fields has been enormous and we’ve come to rely on it in our day-to-day lives, so much so that we apparently need technology to tell us it’s raining outside. Techies have developed…

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How a Data-Driven Approach Will Improve Urban Design and Livability

The trend toward “extreme urbanization” across the world means that soon 90% of global population growth, 80% of wealth creation and 60% of energy consumption will happen in large cities. In China, for example, 300…

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Engineering

Million-Year Data Storage Disk May Outlast Mankind

Groovy Toyota Changes Colors to Match Your Mood

Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (AUVs) Unveil Ocean’s Mysteries

$100 Billion Transatlantic “VacTrain” Would Be Largest, Most Complex Project Ever

Smog Eating Vacuum Cleaner to Suck Up Beijing’s Black Killer Mists

Technology Outsmarts Mother Nature’s Fiery Fury

Safer, Smaller Helium-Cooled Nuclear Reactors at Half the Price?

Kingdom Tower to Set New Skyscraper Records … For Now

4G-Loaded Smart Trench Coat Tells You When It’s Raining

How a Data-Driven Approach Will Improve Urban Design and Livability

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