Some humans are taking a page from the insect construction book and adopting an outer covering like the ones that those six-legged creatures and their fellow arthropods wear. With the help of medical engineers, disabled people are using high-tech exoskeletons to regain their physical...
With the energy demand and environmental impact related to population growth in combination with the current economic...
It really seems like a way to be green…using wood to heat your home. It’s a renewable resource. Fuels like coal, which provides the power for electric heat, natural gas, and oil are fossil fuels, which contribute to global warming. And they present other environmental concerns such as...
A report just published by the British American Security Information Council analyses on-going developments in the nu...
Many active research and development projects will benefit from recognition of the reality of these universal protein...
“Baby you can drive my car,” goes the Beatles’ song. But what if that vehicle has a manual transmission? Baby, can you drive it then? Before we answer that question, let's for the record note that a transmission does what it says. It transmits the power of the engine to the wheels of the...
Taking cue from Chesley Bonestell’s artwork, the artificial San Francisco Bay entrance island could become a new attr...
One of the biggest mistakes in biomaterials development is only measuring water droplet shapes. It is NOT the interac...
Overshadowing tensions between Iran and the west is, on the one side, the belief that Iran intends to develop nuclear...
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