Insanity or Innovation? The World’s Quietest Place
Imagine hearing nothing but your heartbeat, over and over, for seconds, minutes, hours. Eventually, you may get a little crazy, but this is how quiet a room must be in order to test the most…
Imagine hearing nothing but your heartbeat, over and over, for seconds, minutes, hours. Eventually, you may get a little crazy, but this is how quiet a room must be in order to test the most…
Researchers in Japan are developing a modular nuclear reactor to power large apartment complexes. Small or modular reactors produce up to 500 MW of energy. The Japanese reactor is based on Rapid-L that was intended…
The illustration above shows how much water there is on Earth. United States Geological Survery (USGS) scientist Howard Perlman calculated (1) All water (see largest sphere over western U.S., 860 miles (1,384 im) in diameter) (2) Fresh liquid…
Imagine the surprise when 89 year old retired MIT professor Ernst Frankel started receiving calls from reporters about Elon Musk’s hyperloop. In the early 1990’s researchers, led by Frankel, designed a vacuum tube train that…
The latest device in GPS technology is certainly an intriguing one – GPS bullets. Researchers at StarChase are helping police reduce the risks to innocent bystanders and drivers during car chases by tracking the absconder.…
Catamaran boat MS Turanor PlanetSolar, powered by solar energy, is open for visitors in Cité de la Voile Eric Tabarly in Lorient until the boat sets sail on its 2014 campaign in March. The boat…
“Necessity is the mother of invention” is as apt for new wind turbine de-icing systems as for those created decades ago for planes. Modern day windmills and their blades are taller and larger than ever…
The specter of “hypersonic travel”, or traveling at five times the speed of sound or greater, seems to be just over the horizon. That is, within the next few decades. “New York to London in…
China has leapt from relative poverty to a vibrant developing economy and an expanding middle class in just a few short decades. With China expected to overtake the US as the world’s largest economy sometime…
Invisible vehicles sound cool but so far we have only seen these vehicles in James Bond movies. Now a team of researchers from University of Porto in Portugal have developed an augmented reality system that…