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3D printing has taken the technological world by storm as innovators figure out how to use the latest additive manufacturing technology to print out everything from small toys to large buildings.
Earlier this month, the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, removed a small oak tree from its sculpture garden—a story of little to no note, right? But just as the mighty […]
NewSpace SmallCaps often face challenges: tight budgets, game-changing competition, lengthy development schedules and cash flow crunches. To reduce some of this pain, NewSpace companies have found significant advantages in tapping […]
Do you want to learn to play the guitar? Speak Spanish? Lose weight? Then set aside $100 of your pretax income to donate to the Westboro Baptist Church.
Rio de Janeiro and Rome are two cities that have pledged to hold racing competitions in 2014 using all-electric vehicles.
A company has developed a system that can be used to validate ID in almost any environment.
Today we are releasing our whitepaper The Explosion of Conscious Media, created in partnership with Gaiam TV, the premier aggregator of Conscious Media content. The report defines Conscious Media and […]
Used by police in riot situations, it could help identify perpetrators long after the event is over: The DNA “sticks to clothing through several washings and to skin for about two weeks.”
In response to a rising wave of crime on campus, three Cornell University students have developed a prototype of a device that blinds an attacker and takes their picture.
So I’ve gotten several emails this morning asking me what I think about this article by Paul J. LeBlanc, the president of Southern New Hampshire University. It’s a plea for […]
Announced this week, the US military’s Vanishing Programmable Resources (VAPR) program has as its goal the development of electronics that can dissolve into the environment around them.
I tried something new this week on the first day of my spring term humanities seminar. Rather than hand out the syllabus and introduce the themes and texts coming up, […]
Question: Which contest is the nec plus ultra for puzzle fans and quiz aficionados everywhere? Answer: The MIT Mystery Hunt (MMH), which kicks off every year on the Friday before […]
Due to arduous competition for limited scientific funds, the pie-in-the-sky ideas that may potentially hide brilliance underneath, are often ignored, abandoned, or simply never undertaken in the first place.
An aging man, a physician, learns he has Alzheimers. Determined to avoid the worst of it, he assembles a lethal collection of pills. As the next few years pass, the […]
Since its launch earlier this month, the Web site Rinkwatch has experienced an influx of data from volunteers in Canada and the United States.
The parameters that determine the solar system region in which planets could possibly support life were created 20 years ago, before exoplanets were discovered.
A recent follow-up study involving American University’s dining halls demonstrates that removing trays causes a notable drop in both energy costs and food waste.
New data out from the US government shows that the country is responsible for 47 percent of global consumption and isn’t expected to reduce that amount anytime soon.
Findings published Monday describe a thriving world of microbial life existing 30,000 feet above Earth. Comprising up to 20 percent of particles in their size range, they may affect weather on the ground.
Waiting in line to pay admission late last month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in a sea of heavy-winter-coated humanity, I asked myself why this […]
I’ve noticed a pattern when speaking to friends about creationism: I say the word, and in response receive a squinted eye and disgruntled head shake, followed by, ‘But no one […]
In the 80’s classic movie, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, experienced high school ingenue Linda Barrett tells her younger friend Stacy Hamilton that she should just lose her virginity already. […]
General Electric is the latest company to release software for utilities that takes advantage of social media and other data to identify outages and other problems.
Ainissa Ramirez, hailing from the birthplace of American football, Yale University, walks us through the major physics concepts at work in the sport.
The Pentagon has approved a plan to boost its cybersecurity force to almost 5,000 over the next several years.
“All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell….what I’ve come to learn is […]
You and I make risk judgments for ourselves all the time, based on a few facts and a lot of subjective, instinctive emotional factors. As a result we sometimes […]
Why the harp? Why not, answers Gillian Grassie, who says she was raised by “Quaker hippie parents in the woods without television.” While picking up the harp may not have been […]