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;…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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$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…

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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,…

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Robotic Red Blood Cells To Vastly Expand Human Capabilities

Abbott Laboratories in North Chicago is currently testing robotic red blood cells or respirocytes in rats. According to a CNN report respirocytes or mechanical red blood cells will augment or replace human red blood cells carrying oxygen to…

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Using Engineering To Reduce The Threat & Cost Of Natural Disasters

Engineers are studying the planet’s structure and dynamic natural systems including earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunamis, floods and tornadoes. Avalanches, fires, hurricanes and thunderstorms are also being studied. If it is true that the world’s atmosphere…

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The World’s Largest Solar Powered Boat

Some sailboats are beautiful drifting about on a sunny windless day, some sailboats are beautiful racing across storm tossed seas full of whitecaps and sailors clinging on for dear life and some sailboats are beautiful…

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