It’s pretty amazing what human beings are capable of, it seems that no matter what life throws at us we find a way to survive and thrive. Make sure you watch the video above (even thought it’s in…
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It’s pretty amazing what human beings are capable of, it seems that no matter what life throws at us we find a way to survive and thrive. Make sure you watch the video above (even thought it’s in…
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The Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn and observing the planet and its moons since July of 2004 (Cassini’s partner, the Huygens probe, landed on and is exploring the moon Titan),…
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Students at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have designed an urban transportation innovation that will work a lot like luggage carts at the airport: stackable, electric, two-person “City Cars” that…
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We know it’s possible to live off-grid, or to produce your own energy and feed it back into the grid, but is anyone actually doing it? It turns out there’s a growing number of self-sustaining homes,…
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It is the kind of garage where a stranger walking in will see chaos; but among the gas barrels and fixtures, tubs of grease and auto parts, everything is exactly in its place. The recycled…
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The first Edward Burtynsky photograph that I remember seeing was a dark, flat landscape cut through the middle by a river flowing bright red. At the time, I thought manufactured landscapes referred…
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A small group of cylinder-shaped robots, topped with glowing, circular patterns of light, seems to be what comprises a pet these days. GlowBots are small robots that interact with a user as well as…
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Built from “electricity tubes,” as they’re called in Holland, Theo Jansen’s sculptures don’t just move— they walk. There is no motor and, in the new models, no person involved. Powered by giant…
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If you have ever enjoyed finger painting then you’ll be really excited about Surface. The people at Microsoft have come up with a desktop computer that is, literally, a table-top. A touch screen…
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How well do you know your own mind? How well do you understand its inner workings? And can you really trust it, to tell you what it’s seeing? Our brains are made up of about a hundred trillion…
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