New Solar Energy Chips 100 Times More Efficient

In March, 2013, researchers working at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) announced an innovation in solar cell design and published a scientific paper on the breakthrough in Nature. According to Jared Schwede…

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N55 Walking Houses are Transforming Human Life

Denmark is on the way to a green and sustainable future already having achieved 20% renewable energy and a plan to reach 100% by 2050. Most of Denmark’s renewable energy comes from wind turbines and…

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Water Desalination Using 99% Less Energy With Pefrorene

Lockheed Martin’s Pefrorene, made from a single atom 100 nanometer thick sheet of graphene is 500 times thinner than the best desalination Reverse Osmosis technology available today and cuts energy expenses involved in the process…

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Are Sports Stars Dying for Ultimate Glory?

Dimentia Pugilistica (DP) is a neurodgenerative dementia that affects those who have experienced brain injury; athletes include Jack Demsey, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Graziano, Owen Thomas, Muhammad Ali, and Junior Seau to name just a few; similar…

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Tapping 90% of Earth’s Fresh Water Frozen in Glaciers and Icebergs

Due to the shortage of freshwater around the globe scientists and engineers are interested in exploiting fresh water in icebergs by towing them to where the ice can be melted and converted to drinking water.…

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Making Millions of Miles of Road Safer

State of the Art Research Facility Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and the Center for Infrastructure-Based Safety System has a state-of-the-art, full-scale, closed test bed research facility managed by the Virginia Department of Transportation called the…

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Singapore’s $6.6 Billion Marina Bay Sands – Slide Show

Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands Hotel opened 2.5 years ago at a cost of $6.6 billion. It’s a 2,561 room hotel and casino that includes restaurants, bars, upscale shopping malls, a museum and a SkyPark with…

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Nuclear Warheads Diluted For Use In Nuclear Power Plants.

Graham Allison, Professor of Government at Harvard and the Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government recently sat down to discuss the question “How Likely is…

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Profile: Billionaire Entrepreneur Elon Musk: “I would like to die on Mars, not just on Impact”

Seldom do we see such a young life where big dreams and ambitions are transformed into reality in the span of a few short years; his story is a testament to vision, passion, determination with…

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Siemens Weighfeeders Boost Profits for Chinese Steel Company

ShouSteel Mining Ltd., located in QianAn City, China, runs a pelletizing plant that uses iron ore as a raw material combined with limestone, dolostone, or olivine, with bentonite as a binder. After mixing the raw…

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