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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315 mph (508 km/h) In An Electric Car Is The Fastest Zero Emmission Car On The Planet

At Ohio State’s Center for Automotive Research teams of students led by professor Dr. Giorgio Rizzoni have been designing alternative fuel race cars that run on batteries or hydrogen fuel cells since 1990 that hold…

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Air Pollution Killing 700,000 Chinese a Year and Millions More Worldwide

Sacrifice, development, progress: the names we give to human events often depend on our point of view. The most vilified and notorious criminals in history have been responsible for the deaths of millions. Genghis Khan…

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Hate camping on the cold and soggy ground? Try the Tree Tent

If you’ve ever camped on rocky or soggy ground, if you’ve ever worried about animals, crawling bugs, or reptiles visiting you while you sleep, or if you’re looking for the next big think in camping, you’ve been waiting for the Tentsile.…

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4 Million Miles of Solar Panel Roads Powering the USA

An interesting and perhaps game changing technology being considered in the US is roads made of solar powered panels that are interconnected creating an intelligent solar roadway. With 4 million miles of roads and many…

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Comparing Global Research & Development Cost by Country

Steve Jobs famously said: “Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not…

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