These Eco-Friendly Prefab Pods are Incredibly Flexible and Energy Efficient

British company Pod Space makes prefabricated buildings that can be used as guest rooms, backyard offices or studios. These eco-friendly prefab pods can be fully customized, from a small personal eco-space to a full-service home…

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ARGOS Challenge: Replacing Oil & Gas Platform Workers with Robots

IndustryTap has reported on a number of disasters at oil and gas facilities that handle highly volatile materials. While some of the causes are related to equipment malfunctions or design or acts of God, the…

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This Chaotic Scene is Actually Just a Blue Angels Low Flyby Over Pensacola Beach

If you’ve never seen the Blue Angels live before, you’re missing out! Recently, the Blue Angels performed what appears to be a demo flight/air show on the shore at Pensacola Beach on July 11th. As…

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WWII Bomb Shelters Used as London’s First Underground Farm

Two entrepreneurs, Richard Ballard and Steven Dring, in partnership with Michel Roux, Jr., the Michelin-starred chef, have set up a 2.5-acre crop farm in London. The farm is housed in two bomb shelters 100 feet…

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“I Spy” in the Sky: The FBI’s Secret Fleet of Small Planes Circling American Cities

TSA, NSA, drones and… Cessnas? How does the saying go? “You’re not paranoid if you are actually being watched.” Could that small plane circling low overhead be photographing YOU? Who knew that the FBI has…

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Tragic Accident at Volkswagen Plant Results in Robot-Related Death

An incident that reminds you of a sci-fi movie occurred in one of Volkswagen’s production plants in Germany. A 22-year-old man died, after a robot grabbed him and crushed him against a metal plate. The victim…

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The Making of a Premium Beretta Shotgun is the Most Beautiful Thing Ever!

As the owner of two Beretta A400 Xplor Unico Semi-Auto Shotguns, I already have a great deal of respect for the company and the craftsmanship that goes into each individual firearm. My respect level skyrocketed…

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This Image of Pluto Was 9 Years and Over 3.26 Billion Miles in the Making

The New Horizons spacecraft endured a nine-year, 3.26 billion mile journey to capture the picture above of the dwarf planet Pluto. It represents the closest, clearest image of Pluto anyone on Earth has ever seen,…

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Three-Dimensional Interactive Holograms are Now a Reality

Three-dimensional holograms have long been a favorite of science fiction movies. But because of the use of high-powered lasers to project the hologram, contact with the images was not possible. Thanks to a major breakthrough…

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New Water Splitting Technology Could Help Spark “Age Of Hydrogen” for Transport & Industry

The Search for Low-Cost, Clean Burning Hydrogen On June 23, 2015, researchers at Stanford University’s Materials Science & Engineering program published a study in Nature Communications about a new “single-catalyst water splitter” that improves on…

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