78 Killed, 180 Injured As Spain Train Derails At 118 MPH
The world is coming to grips with the horror of the third major train derailment in the past month, this one a dramatic train crash in Santiago de Compostela Spain that killed at least 78…
Engineering
New Kevlar Bike Might Be The World’s Fastest
It’s a very strange shape and it’s made out of Kevlar and fibreglass, you may be still trying to figure out what it is but according to its creator, it’s a bike and it might…
$33 Trillion Needed To Meet Emission Targets by 2035
Some might call the idea of a profitable $33 trillion (that’s $33,000,000,000,000) investment plan to fix the planets woes “woolgathering” or “oneirism”; if nothing else it dramatizes and presages the magnitude of the task. But…
High Octane Attempt To Birth A Baby Sun
It may sound like an automobile factory but the National Ignition Facility (NIF), finished in 2009, is the world’s largest laser with 192 intense laser beams delivering 60 times more energy than any previous system;…
World’s Largest 300-Step Rube Goldberg Machine Designed At Purdue University
The World’s Largest “Rube Goldberg” Machine was recently designed and built at Purdue University but what is a Rube Goldberg machine? The Rube Goldberg Institute is a clearinghouse for information on the history of the…
Chennai, India Quickly Becoming The World’s Top Automobile Producer
The automobile industry in the United States has found it a “difficult road to drive” in recent decades as it has sought to recover from the onslaught of clearly superior foreign automobiles. From the 1970s…
Microdrones Are Helping Us See The World Like Never Before
Remote control mini drones or micro drones are now being used for a plethora of important applications. These include aerial mapping services, search and rescue, inspection services like power line monitoring, police security, aerial surveillance,…
Nanoscale 3D Printers Able To Print Thinner Than A Hair
Martin Hermatswchweiler of Nanoscribe GmbH believes nanoscale printing, when commercialized, will supplant other forms of small scale manufacture and lead to the revitalization of industries worldwide. Much progress is being made developing nanoscale 3-D printers…
$439 Million Dollar Tunnel Project To Fix The Devil’s Slide
Striking a balance between a region’s scenic beauty and the need for infrastructural growth is always going to be a challenge. Great, sprawling highways can connect industries in different cities but can wreak havoc on…
Da Vinci Robotic Surgery System Performing Over 250,000 Surgeries A Year
The urban dictionary lists “robot benders” as extreme robot fighting events where two robots enter and one leaves, “angry robots” as having killer laser beams and rusty chassis, “Robosapiens” as robots pretending to be human,…
