Hacking Medicine’s Grand Hack Winners 2015
One of World’s Largest Health Hackathons The word “hack” was revived at MIT in the 1950s after nearly a millennia of being out of favor. At the end of last month, the annual MIT Hacking…
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Brain Neurons Used in Face Recognition Identified
Humans and animals are capable of amazing feats, for example, the ability to recognize people and objects. Face recognition helps people develop social relationships and individual identities, find mates and infer emotions, among others. What’s…
Hunting Dark Matter with the Silicon Vertex Tracker
Just when physicists hunted down the Higgs Boson, they took up a new quest: hunting for dark matter. According to scientists, the universe is composed of 73% dark energy, 23% dark matter and just 4%…
Los Angeles Head Butts St. Louis Over Rams, Huge New NFL Stadiums in Store
The St. Louis Rams have not been very successful since they moved to St. Louis from Los Angeles in 1994. The lowest point, perhaps, came in 2009 when the team went 1-15. But the team’s…
The Freightliner “Inspiration Truck” is Officially the First Road-Legal Autonomous Big Rig
The very first road-legal autonomous big rig is finally here thanks to Freightliner! Called the “Inspiration Truck,” it will be the inaugural self-driven commercial truck to drive on American roads. It’s autonomous license plate was…
Emotion Flow Fin Box Makes Surfing Easier, Faster
We met inventor L. Mike Kelley in “The Rebirth of Emotion Skateboard Wheels“. Kelley, proprietor of Emotion Surfboards in Malibu, California, is now promoting a new surfing technology he’s been working on for years, called…
NASA Damage Maps Critical to Nepal Earthquake Response
In the wake of the April 25th 7.8 magnitude earthquake that devastated the Kathmandu Valley and surrounding rural areas in Nepal, help and aid have continued to pour in from around the world. The goal…
Geoengineering Guinea Pig Earth
One day soon, humans may know first hand what its like to be lab rats. Avoiding Stratospheric Ruin Geoengineering, or “climate hacking,” defined as an attempt to reduce the atmospheric absorption of sunlight, is getting…
Lightning LS-218: The World’s Fastest Accelerating Electric Superbike
Lightning Motorcycles has designed and produced the very first Lightning LS-218 electric superbike. This amazing bike is definitely going to change the minds of those who doubt the performance of electric motorcycles since it’s the…
Seawer Skyscraper Will Clear the World’s Oceans of Plastic, Generate Clean Energy
Did you know the largest landfill in the world is not on land but in the Pacific Ocean and is commonly known as Great Pacific Garbage Patch? As per Greenpeace, a majority of marine debris…
