Can Astronauts Propel Themselves Using Farts in Space?
Farts are an fascinating quirk of nature when you consider it. (Admit it: You've thought deeply about farts in your life, at some point in life). After all, we are basically speaking about a putrid gas...
MIT’s latest microscope can view nanoscale processes in real time
State-of-the-art atomic force microscopes (AFMs) are designed to capture pictures of structures as small as a fraction of a nano meter — one million times smaller than the width of a...
Peer-to-Peer Predictions: The Greatest Gambling Platform in History?
An online gambling platform could do to the neighborhood bookie what electric refrigerators did to the ice delivery man.
Coming this fall, Augur will allow participants to wager money on any future...
Students at MIT invent a robotic kitchen that may revolutionize fast food
MIT engineering students Michael Farid, Kale Rogers, Luke Schlueter and Braden Knight invented a completely automated mini-restaurant referred to as Spyce Kitchen, that will make fast food even faster. It features a fridge, dishwasher,...
Buildings to be powered by Solar Windows
Manhattan has roughly forty seven thousand buildings with around 10.7 million windows, based on a 2013 estimate from The New York Times.
Now think about if just 1%, that's 100,700, of these...
Top Bitcoin Wallets of 2017
Last year in covering some of the top emerging technologies of 2016, we highlighted the Blockchain. This is the electric ledger behind Bitcoin, and for a few years, many in the...
Spy Planes, Signal Jammers, and High-Tech Weapons in Syria
The relationship between Russia and the West is becoming increasingly dangerous with potential flashpoints developing in both eastern Europe and Syria. After repeated incursions into Turkish airspace by Russian warplanes on...
AI: Robots that can learn by viewing how-to videos
Scanning several videos on the same how-to matter, a computer inside a robot finds instructions they've in common and combines them into one step-by-step series.
If you hire new employees you may...
The Impact of Cryptocurrency on the Economy
In the last few years, the term cryptocurrency has rapidly gained popularity. Apart from being essential for those who value privacy, cryptocurrency has also taken the world by storm as more...
Russia’s Stealthy Fifth Generation Nuclear Bomber in Big Trouble
Speaking at the Samara-based Kuznetsov Plant of the United Engine Corporation, a Russian defense company, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov told reporters that manufacturing of the PAK DA has been...
