Better Batteries are just around the corner.
Imagine a cellphone battery that stayed charged for more than a week and recharged in just 15 minutes. That dream battery could be closer to reality thanks to Northwestern University research…
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Cotton Candy
FXI Technologies, a Norwegian company, showed off an amazing USB stick-sized portable computer prototype on Friday. It is code-named Cotton Candy because its 21 gram weight is the same as a bag of the confection, the tiny PC enables what its inventor calls “any-screen computing”: the ability to turn any TV, laptop, phone, tablet, or set-top box into a dumb terminal for its Android-powered operating system.
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South Carolina tire dump so large it is visible from space.
The giant pile of hundreds of thousands of tires isn’t easy to spot from the ground, sitting in a rural South Carolina clearing accessible by only a circuitous dirt path that winds through thick patches of trees. No one knows how all those tires got there, or when. (Pics)
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Sailrocket 2
The Sailrocket 2 isn’t designed for a casual afternoon on the lake. It’s engineered to set a new sailing speed record, and it’s in Namibia right now trying to do just that.
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Antarctic fur seal
The Antarctic fur seals’ remarkable homing instinct, which is thought to be the most accurate of any sea mammal, allows the creatures to return to within a single body length of the spot where they were born to give birth to their own pups.
CERN produces a breakthrough.
In September, physicists were scratching their heads at CERN when neutrinos were recorded as traveling faster than the speed of light. That shouldn’t happen unless Einstein turns out to be wrong.
The experiment is part of the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA) project, and saw neutrinos fired 732km from CERN to the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy. The issue was, some of those neutrinos arrived early by billionths of a second, and therefore faster than light speed. This obviously caused some concern that either something new had been discovered, or more likely, an error had been made with the measurements…
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A model of an electromagnetic engine.
Inventors today have got it easy. If they want to patent something, all they have to do is file some paperwork. Before 1880, however, if you wanted to patent a better mousetrap, you actually had to build it – or at least a miniature version to help patent inspectors understand why you actually deserve the patent…
Growing skin at home has never been easier.
While skin grafts are an essential tool for treating severe burns, Avita Medical has developed a compact kit that grows replacement skin that can be sprayed on. Which has resulted in faster healing and better cosmetic results in patient testing.
Instead of growing patches of skin that can be draped over severely burned areas, the ReCell kit uses a small sample of the patient’s keratinocytes and melanocytes skin cells that quickly reproduce in a special suspension solution…
Gotham bee, is one of 11 newly identified bee species.
Eleven new species of sweat bees has been identified by one researcher, including a bug named in honor of Gotham City – but in a sense, these bees aren’t new at all. They’ve probably been right under our noses all this time.
The government wants to track you by your heartbeat.
You may be hiding on the other side of the wall but the U.S. military can see you breathing, they can even see your heartbeat racing. But you may be surprised if you think you can run farther away or hide in a crowd. The Defense Department’s sensors will find you. The Pentagon is looking to tweak their life-form finder that can spot your heartbeat no matter where you are.
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Crouching Tiger and Turtle
The city of Duisburg in Germany is now home to Crouching Tiger and Turtle, which could easily be described as a roller coaster without a roller coaster! The newest feature of the German landscape has taken eight weeks of intensive work to assemble. (Pics)
Tiny parcels of light, or photons, are produced out of empty space.
Scientists prove space is not empty after they claim they have produced particles of light out of a vacuum.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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