5 Tips to Increase Forklift Battery Life Up to 40%

Electric forklifts have increased in popularity in recent times due to rising fuel costs and a greater awareness about environmental problems. An electric forklift has many benefits over a conventional one, but if you do…

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Forget the Tallest Skyscrapers in the World. This One’s Invisible.

Man’s desire to be invisible or make things disappear dates back to ancient times. Illusionists have been successfully making objects as big as the Statue of Liberty, the ‘Taj Mahal’ and even the space shuttle…

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Is Cloud-Based Backup Power on the Horizon?

When the computer revolution was several decades old, the existence of huge amounts of underutilized computing power and storage capacity from companies like Amazon, Google and others, and the huge waste it entailed, led to…

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Future Body Armor May Come from 3D-Printed Fish Scales

It may sound fishy but researchers from MIT looked to the ancient fish “Polypterussenegalus” for inspiration in modern warfare. This fish has a sturdy exoskeleton and each of the scales that cover its long body…

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Radioactive Glass Could Reduce Nuclear Waste by 90%

Nuclear power is no doubt a cleaner solution to energy production and is also more efficient than its fossil fuel predecessors. But the nuclear waste it generates is extremely hazardous and needs to be handled…

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Almost 40 Years Later, Apache AH-64 Still Plug and Play with New Technologies

The primary role of the US Army’s Apache AH-64 attack helicopter is to attack aircraft and engage targets on the ground such as tanks. The first extensive use of the Apache was in Operation Desert…

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Researchers Charged Up about Self-Healing Battery

There seems to be a new technologically-advanced gadget hitting the market daily. But the powering source for these gizmos hasn’t evolved as quickly. You would be lucky to get even two days juice out of…

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Renewable Energy Projects Aren’t Always the Solution

Over the past 40 years, 20% of the Amazon Rain Forest has been lost due to deforestation mostly by indigent farmers seeking to eke out a living; an area the size of 200 football fields…

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How Technology Keeps You Safe With Engines Spinning at 100,000 RPM

The thrust from a turbine is generated through hundreds of precision blades spinning at 100,000 rpm. These blades have to be precision machined to a precise airfoil. If even one of these blades does not…

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Million-Year Data Storage Disk May Outlast Mankind

The amount of data that can be stored has increased enormously since IBM introduced the world’s first commercial computer capable of storing 5MB of data on a 24-inch diameter magnetic disk drive back in 1956.…

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