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Solar Powered Plane Begins Its Journey Across The USA

Following on from our previous reports, the Solar Impulse plane has taken off for its first cross US flight. The entirely solar powered plane, which uses no fuel, has been making several advancements in recent…

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Intel’s Projector Headlights Block Out Rain And Snow

New technology using a camera and projectors, being developed by Intel, could change the way car headlights are developed forever, with a new technique that blocks out rainwater giving drivers a clearer image of the…

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Ten Advancing Technology Breakthroughs For 2013

1. Supergrids Come of Age A recent breakthrough in grid technology could make DC power lines practical in 2013. At an ABB Swedish lab researchers have developed a high power DC circuit breaker. For over…

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World’s First Manned Electric Powered Helicopter

The Achievement In 2011, Pascal Chretien, an electric and aerospace engineer from French based Solution F, achieved the first untethered electric powered helicopter flight in history. The achievement seems modest in that he hovered 1…

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World’s Most Powerful Microscopes Mapping The Brain

I recently visited Professor Jeff Lichtman of Harvard’s Molecular and Cellular Biology Center with a small group of journalists, to learn about the Human Connectome Project which is mapping the human brain and its 85…

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World’s Largest Aqueducts, Moving Billions Of Gallons Of Water Daily

Two of the more interesting tunnels that humans build are transportation tunnels for trains and cars and water aqueducts supplying large cities. The largest existing aqueduct in the world is the Thirlmere Aqueduct in North…

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One Trillion Sensors Embedded in Humans and Machines by 2020

According to scientists, humanity has begun its next major shift: we are now entering the “Hybrid Age”. Across the entire range of scientific and technological disciplines changes are occurring that were unimaginable a few decades…

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Removing Billions Of Vehicle Miles With Cost-Effective Electric Monorails

The world’s oldest operating transportation monorail (“schwebebahan” in German) built in 1901 in Wuppertal, Germany, stretches 8.3 miles (13.3 km), has 20 stations, a top speed of 34 mph (56 kph) and still carries 82,000…

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Gamification Market to Reach $2.8 billon by 2016

All the World’s a . . . Game It has been suggested that US Presidential candidate Herman Cain’s “999 Plan” may have come from SimCity where it is a default formula for running a SimCity…

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Retractable Roof Stadiums: Fans Love Them But At What Cost?

In 1980 Syracuse University, in upstate New York, opened the largest on-campus dome facility in the United States. Syracuse, known as the snowiest and wettest large city in the United States, after 73 years of…

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Design

Solar Powered Plane Begins Its Journey Across The USA

Intel’s Projector Headlights Block Out Rain And Snow

Ten Advancing Technology Breakthroughs For 2013

World’s First Manned Electric Powered Helicopter

World’s Most Powerful Microscopes Mapping The Brain

World’s Largest Aqueducts, Moving Billions Of Gallons Of Water Daily

One Trillion Sensors Embedded in Humans and Machines by 2020

Removing Billions Of Vehicle Miles With Cost-Effective Electric Monorails

Gamification Market to Reach $2.8 billon by 2016

Retractable Roof Stadiums: Fans Love Them But At What Cost?

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