World’s Largest Container Ship Debuts in Copenhagen
Triple E, the world’s largest ship, is 400 meters long, 59 meters wide, 73 meters high and has a capacity of 18,000 twenty-foot containers. Although it’s about a quarter of a mile long and is…
Engineering
Rice Undergraduate Engineers Invent Robotic Arm For Disabled Teen
Three undergraduate bioengineering students at Rice University in Houston, Texas, have built a robotic arm for Dee Faught. The 17 year old suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic malady that makes his bones brittle. Faught…
Bike with Carbon Fiber Frame Breaks World Speed Record
Students at TU Delft and VU University in Amsterdam have set a new world record with their high-speed bike at 133.79 km per hour (83.133 mph). Sebastiaan Bowier manned the bicycle down a 200-meter length…
Sky-High “Vertical Forest” Takes Green Living to New Heights
Trade nature’s beauty for city life among the skyscrapers or live miles away from civilization for the trees? A new green architecture project is combining the best of both worlds with a “vertical forest.” Reforestation…
Who’s Going to Make the World Better?
“Innovation Economics – The Race for Global Advantage” by Robert Atkinson and Stephen Ezell does something rarely seen in Washington D.C. these days: it provides a plausible diagnosis for the ills of the United States…
Could These Solar Cells Replace Heavy Solar Panels?
Researchers at University of Alberta have discovered that phosphorus and zinc can be used to make inexpensive nanoparticle-based solar cells that can turn the sun’s power into electrical energy. Researchers have designed nanoparticles that absorb…
The Dinosaur Eats Dinosaur World of Global Aerospace & Defense
Global A&D Industry Expanding If the top ten Aerospace & Defense companies worldwide are the “Tyrannosaurus Rexes” with yearly revenues in the $35 to $70 billion range, smaller A&D companies, roughly half their size with…
Just Do It or Just Say No to a Drug That Gives You a Photographic Memory?
The image above is being drawn by Stephan Wiltshire, an autistic young man, who can draw city skylines accurately after taking one helicopter ride. Since 2009, Wiltshire has traveled to Tokyo, Rome, Hong Kong and…
$616 Million Millennium Tower to Alter Boston Skyline
IndustryTap wrote about the largest US public works project in US history, The Big Dig, built in Boston between 1991 and 2006, costing $14.7 billion. Millennium Tower was planned on the heels of the Big…
130-Year-Old Tabernacle Ready for Rebirth with Massive Foundation Project
In Provo, Utah, engineers are saving the 130-year-old Provo Tabernacle that was gutted by fire in 2010. The building has huge historic and spiritual significance for Provo’s “Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” (LDS)…
