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Solar power is a hot topic these days. With energy costs increasing and expected to keep on increasing, many are seeing solar power as the way to go. While expensive, it's possible to add solar power to pretty much any home.

Beekeepers frequently open up their hives to check on them, but doing so adds to their workload, and it stresses out the bees. A team of Dutch entrepreneurs set out to develop an alternative, resulting in the BEEP base hive-monitoring system.

Scientists have designed an affordable 'flow battery' membrane that could accelerate renewable energy for the electrical grid.

SpaceX Starlink communication satellite features are being tested by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory under the Global Lightning program.

Elon Musk talked about needing one thousand Starship flights to create a sustainable Mars city. American Airlines is the airline with largest fleet of passenger airplanes. American has 957 planes. 157 widebody planes and 782 narrow-body planes.

Superhydrophobic materials, which are excellent at repelling water, can be extremely useful for a whole range of reasons, both obvious and not-so-obvious. They can prevent ice from building up on surfaces, make electronics waterproof, make ships more

Maersk has teamed with Trident Maritime Systems to create a 600 kWh container battery that can be placed on a container-hauling ship to provide power. The battery is now en route to be installed on the Maersk Cape Town container vessel.

to Rainwater...A Mexican college student has created a new formula for road pavement that repairs itself when exposed to rainwater.

SpaceX completed static fire tests and is targeting November 11, 2019 for a launch of 60 production Starlink satellites.

Writing in 1889, the Swiss pathologist Ernst Ziegler observed that "a brief and precise definition of inflammation is altogether impossible." Even back then, experts like Ziegler recognized that inflammation manifests in different ways, and that

Russian startup Promobot is now selling autonomous androids -- and buyers can choose to make the robots look like any person on Earth.

When emissions dissolve. And emotions and fun to drive remain. Explore etelligent eDrives

New 125 kW electric motor to be eight times smaller and half as expensive as currently available permanent magnet motors.

OmniVision has announced that its OV6948 unit has been declared the world's smallest commercially available image sensor by Guinness World Records. And the company has now squeezed it into a new camera module.

It certainly would be great if instead of having to be harvested from a patient's own body, permanent skin grafts could be 3D-printed as needed. Well, we may be getting a little closer to that point, as scientists have now bioprinted living skin comp

That all changed when scientists began using lidar, a remote sensing technique that shoots lasers from low-flying planes. By measuring a laser's travel time, scientists can determine the shape of the ground within a few centimeters and create a pic

Fiber-optic cables send light signals down a glass or plastic fiber thinner than a strand of hair. Reflective cladding surrounding that core boosts the signal in a technique called "total internal reflection." The speed of the light passing down

All of the garbage trucks in Toronto will soon be powered by the biogas produced from the very trash they collect.

When the modern computer was first created in the 1960s, people soon started imagining a future with intelligent machines.

The US Navy has a new method for transporting supplies to off-shore submarines – drone delivery.

Experimental cancer drug that targets common genetic fault can shrink tumours by up to 67% in just six weeks, trial reveals

The end of STITCHES? Scientists make double-sided tape which can seal internal wounds together in as little as FIVE SECONDS

It takes a lot of systems engineering-the ability to work on all layers of the stack. This is as complicated as it gets from a systems engineering perspective. You are literally starting with a wafer, and there is a team which is literally etching

A team of high school students have developed an inexpensive device that can generate electricity from sound. The eleventh grade students from the Philippine Science High School-Western Visayas Campus (PSHS-WVC) say that the generator is like the

Vaccines and Autoimmunity)...The powerful government-pharmaceutical industry partnership that has been foisting human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination on girls and boys around the world since 2006 now has working-age adults within its sights. Merck

In medical school, I was trained to inject steroids into arthritic joints. The steroids did provide some relief from arthritic pain. I was taught that three injections per joint were safe and would cause no harm.

How big a deal was the success of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy? In 2010, NASA and the Augustine commission determined that it would cost $36 billion and 12 years to develop a heavy-lift vehicle.

... Speed Record attempt

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic becomes the first space tourism company to hit public markets and sees its shares soar more than 9% in NYSE debut

India is aiming to build a fleet of future nuclear power plant projects in order to reduce costs and construction times, according to Kamlesh Vyas, chairman of the country's Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).

'This Generation's Snake Oil'

Remember when camcorders were simply … camcorders? They've now splintered into several sub-types, although GoPro has set about combining three of those into one unit, with its new Max.

Satire, or not, the following clip offers a tragicomical view of the world not so far in the future when a robot super-soldier "will take a lickin' and keep on tickin'", shrugging off bee attacks, hockey-stick hammerings, direct rear and frontal kick

Gregory Coles and Bill Scalia helped Like Tesla make its best video to date.

The most dramatic company in energy installed 477 megawatts-hours of battery storage in Q3, more than ever before, as well as seeing the first improvements in its residential solar deployment in years.

Michael J. Fox, known by several generations across the world as Marty McFly from the Back to the Future films, is now a strong advocate for medical cannabis to treat his Parkinson's disease.

Every cell in the body needs sugar to survive. But cancer cells seem to require more than healthy cells do.

Complimenting yesterday's post – a guest article written by Dr. Peter & Ginger Breggin – is the raw, and as yet unreleased full interview with Dr. Breggin that was used in our film "The Minds of Men".

, helps them perform better on tests and slashes inflammation'

SpaceX is developing a low latency, broadband internet system to meet the needs of consumers across the globe.

Six months after revealing its five-seat electric VTOL aircraft, German startup Lilium has shown it flying at speeds over 100 km/h (62 mph), and moving between VTOL and winged flight, in a new video.

Cacao is made by cold-pressing raw seeds from the Theobroma Cacao tree. Cocoa powder, a similar product, is made by roasting raw cacao powder. Both cacao and cocoa have similar health benefits and are high in cocoa flavanols, a specific kind of plant

Swiss company Innolith claims that an electric vehicle equipped with its lithium battery would run for up to 600 miles (966 km.) That level of performance blows its Tesla counterpart away

With transmons and entanglement, scientists strive to put subatomic weirdness to work on the human scale.

Traditionally, copper is a very popular material due to its thermal and electrical conductivity. Recent developments have opened new possibilities in additive manufacturing.

What is true is that whatever his motive, he spent 40 years as the only medical hope for parents of babies born too early in New York City and beyond. Raffel estimates he saved between 6,500 and 7,000 lives.

What would a home on Mars look like? What sort of clothes would we wear on the Red Planet? And how would we grow our food?

Auckland, New Zealand. 17 October 2019 - Rocket Lab, the global leader in dedicated small satellite launch, has successfully launched its ninth Electron mission, deploying a single spacecraft to orbit for satellite manufacturer Astro Digital.

Imagine if you will a lightweight, inexpensive power source with 9 times the energy density of a lithium-ion battery. Got your mind wrapped around that concept?

EUV Lithography is enabling another reduction in chip dimensions by 5 to 10 times in line geometry and this will extend Moore's law and improve processing speed, component density and reduce energy used.