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Bomb-Proof Concrete, Wallpaper Designed to Save Lives

Gunpowder is the first known chemical explosive but it didn’t always have a dark side. It’s reported to have originated in 7th century China to make fireworks used during celebrations and festivals. In fact, gunpowder…

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Robotic Underground Parking Garage Gives Bike Racks the Boot

IndustryTap has written about concept eCycles and their impressive ergonomics, break rotors made from lighter, stronger and more durable materials and how “Creative Engineering Underlies Fastest Bicycles In the World“, featuring recumbent and upright vehicles…

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Kinetic Desk Takes a Stand Against “Sitting Disease”

Dangers of A Sedentary Life According to Harvard Business Review and Marc Hamilton of the University of Missouri, “sitting is the smoking of our generation” because “when you sit down for extended periods of time,…

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Geotechnical Centrifuge Mimics Massive Earthquakes

The image above of the San Andres fault, an 1,800 mile (1,300 km) gash in the earth’s surface, hints at the awesome forces involved when two of the earth’s plates, in this case the Pacific…

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World’s Largest Container Ship Debuts in Copenhagen

Triple E, the world’s largest ship, is 400 meters long, 59 meters wide, 73 meters high and has a capacity of 18,000 twenty-foot containers. Although it’s about a quarter of a mile long and is…

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Rice Undergraduate Engineers Invent Robotic Arm For Disabled Teen

Three undergraduate bioengineering students at Rice University in Houston, Texas, have built a robotic arm for Dee Faught. The 17 year old suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic malady that makes his bones brittle. Faught…

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Bike with Carbon Fiber Frame Breaks World Speed Record

Students at TU Delft and VU University in Amsterdam have set a new world record with their high-speed bike at 133.79 km per hour (83.133 mph). Sebastiaan Bowier manned the bicycle down a 200-meter length…

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Sky-High “Vertical Forest” Takes Green Living to New Heights

Trade nature’s beauty for city life among the skyscrapers or live miles away from civilization for the trees? A new green architecture project is combining the best of both worlds with a “vertical forest.” Reforestation…

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Who’s Going to Make the World Better?

“Innovation Economics – The Race for Global Advantage” by Robert Atkinson and Stephen Ezell does something rarely seen in Washington D.C. these days: it provides a plausible diagnosis for the ills of the United States…

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Could These Solar Cells Replace Heavy Solar Panels?

Researchers at University of Alberta have discovered that phosphorus and zinc can be used to make inexpensive nanoparticle-based solar cells that can turn the sun’s power into electrical energy. Researchers have designed nanoparticles that absorb…

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Engineering

Bomb-Proof Concrete, Wallpaper Designed to Save Lives

Robotic Underground Parking Garage Gives Bike Racks the Boot

Kinetic Desk Takes a Stand Against “Sitting Disease”

Geotechnical Centrifuge Mimics Massive Earthquakes

World’s Largest Container Ship Debuts in Copenhagen

Rice Undergraduate Engineers Invent Robotic Arm For Disabled Teen

Bike with Carbon Fiber Frame Breaks World Speed Record

Sky-High “Vertical Forest” Takes Green Living to New Heights

Who’s Going to Make the World Better?

Could These Solar Cells Replace Heavy Solar Panels?

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