By: Dan We’ve been imagining how to create a new Earth as long as we’ve known that ours was dying. In the late 1930s, a few scientists and engineers posited that variations in climate were caused by humans—or more specifically, human-built systems …
Read More »Recycling Earth Metals
By: Dan We all know about rare Earth elements. They’ve got ridiculous names likeytterbium and praseodymium, and they’re found in nearly every piece of tech you own. Despite their value, we do a horrid job recycling them. But chemists are now hoping …
Read More »Space Deep-Sleep
By Everett In most space movies in this age, the occupants of a space ship are put in deep sleep, as it will take many many years to get to their destination. This kind of deep-sleep technology has been complete fiction. But …
Read More »At Pluto
By: Aaron As a lot of people may know, NASA’s spacecraft New Horizons has recently reached pluto after more than 9 years. This gives us some of the first HD photos of Pluto, as it has been too far away to properly …
Read More »Car Hacking
By Bryan Fiat-Chrysler said today it was launching a voluntary recall of 1.4 million cars, trucks and SUVs out of “an abundance of caution,” following a demonstration earlier this week by Wired magazine from two hackers who took remote control of a …
Read More »Electronic Society
By: Sarah Lu 100 years ago, human civilization focused on building the future with technology; we depicted that the future contained flying cars, hover boards, and a cure for all diseases. Many people in the modern world still dream of futuristic …
Read More »Creation
By: Bryan The rise of 3D printing over the past couple years has lead to many different creative ways of creation. For example, cheap 3D printed houses are already being conceptualized. But the ultimate dream is that one day, we would be …
Read More »“Invisibility” Cloak
By: Dan Everybody has probably fantasized about having an invisibility cloak like the one from Harry Potter. Though that may be a long way away, we now have an “invisibility” cloak that can hide you from radar. The latest advancement comes from …
Read More »3D Printing Clay
By: Dan The 3D printers we know and love today can do many things, and can theoretically create anything we imagine. However, until now, items have been limited to those made of polymer plastics, a handful of metals, and glass. However, researchers …
Read More »The Blackest Black
By: Dan So a couple years ago, a company called NanoSystems created what was then the blackest material on earth, called Vantablack. It was so black, that it absorbed everything but 0.35% of light. The human eye struggles to determine its shape …
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