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The X Factor: Here’s What It Takes To Build The Tower For The World’s Most...
Some 6 million people from around the world travel to Paris each year to climb Gustave Eiffel’s eponymous tower. Industrial engineer Daniel Castell is now working on a structure that will also reach...
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Scientists at Carnegie Mellon built a self-healing skin whose applications could include bio-inspired robots, their colleagues at UCLA found a way to 3D-print muscles and connective tissue, and a team...
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Proving Ground: This U.K. Facility Is Preparing To Put The World’s Largest...
Marc Sala has a huge challenge on his hands. The giant turbine he’s helping bring to market, the Haliade-X, will stand 260 meters tall, about the same height as New York’s iconic 30 Rockefeller Plaza...
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Frozen: How Do You Brings Cutting-Edge X-Ray Tech To An Island Off The Coast...
Gambell, Alaska, is one of the few points in North America where you can see Russia on a clear day. The land around the tiny town, on the northwest tip of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, is...
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Spoiler Alert: Software And Data Help Packaging Companies Keep Your Milk Fresh
When it comes to milk, there’s nothing theoretical about the term “shelf life.” Food and beverage packaging companies must assemble and fill each milk carton rapidly enough for it to arrive at grocery...
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Scientists in Japan built a finger for a robot from living muscles, a bracelet-like brain-machine interface from CTRL-labs can control a robot arm by eavesdropping on nerves in your wrist, and...
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Live Long And Prosper: Nerve Signals Could Lead To Non-Invasive Ways To...
In the original Star Trek series that aired in the 1960s, creator Gene Roddenberry posited a handheld medical device that, when passed in close proximity to a patient, provided the doctor with an...
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Paying It Forward: After Giving Birth Prematurely, This Mother Left Her Job...
In 2012, Liz Kogler was pregnant with her first child and was not having the easiest pregnancy. Diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum — a pregnancy complication that comes with severe nausea, vomiting,...
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A Friend In High Places: New GE Company Aims To Ease Drone Industry’s Growing...
Think of all the work that drones could be doing right now. They could be fighting Zika-carrying mosquitos in Florida, inspecting gas pipelines in Alaska and checking the structural integrity of...
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Snake Eyes: This Slithering Robot Does The Dirty And Dangerous Work So We...
Inspecting the dimly lit belly of a chemicals storage tank can be a pretty grim task. But one industrious soul does it with grace and ease — and certainly without complaint.The brave worker we’re...
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Tiny blood-purifying robots, a 3D-printed neighborhood and artificial nerves that could give prosthetic limbs the ability to “feel” — this week’s scientific developments may be legitimate...
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A Towering Achievement: A Look Inside A Factory For Giant Wind Turbine Blades
Every year, thousands of tourists travel to the northwestern corner of Castellón, a province on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, to visit some of Europe’s oldest and most plentiful cave paintings, dating...
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Lettuce See The Future: ‘Pink’ LEDs And Whizzy Forklifts Will Power This...
For thousands of years, life on a farm was marked by soil-caked fingers and a painful sunburn. That won’t be the case with the farms of tomorrow: speckless and tightly sealed chambers that won’t need...
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The Secret Life Of Drones: AI Takes Airborne Robotic Inspections To A Higher...
High above in the treetops, flying contraptions dart in and out of the branches, buzzing as they collect vital material. Though they may sound like a swarm of hornets, they are actually more benign,...
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Catching Cancer Early: For This Woman, More Breast Care Options Means More...
Jan retired from a long and successful administrative career in late 2016 and the 61-year-old mother of three was looking forward to spending more time with family and friends. Her kids were all grown...
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Researchers at Stanford turned blood cells into neurons, engineers in Germany built software that can see into the future, and their peers in Scotland developed laser for the eyes. You can try to run...
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Riders On The Storm: GE Is Building A Wind Turbine That Can Weather Violent...
Much like hurricanes in the northern Atlantic, typhoons are a perennial menace threatening Japan, the Philippines, China and other nations sitting on the Pacific Rim. Last year the region endured 11 of...
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Guiding Light: This Software Is Helping Modernize New Delhi’s Power Grid
Dust storms are a fact of life in northern India, but this spring the damage has been the worst in two decades, according to the BBC. In early April, a storm brought traffic to a standstill in New...
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Inoculation On Steroids: Fast DNA Vaccines Could Halt Weaponized Viruses...
The World Health Organization declared that smallpox had been eradicated in 1979, but the possibility that variola, the virus that causes this deadly illness, could surface in the form of a bioweapon...
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Hot Off The Press: 3D Printing Has Pushed This Turbine To New Highs
In 2012, Andrew Passmore thought he had taken a machine to its limits. His team of engineers had just upgraded a gas turbine capable of generating enough power to supply the equivalent of 20,000...
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