How Satellites Find Shipwrecks From Space
It's estimated that some three million shipwrecks are scattered across the oceans, with a quarter possibly resting in the North Atlantic. Now satellites can be used to help locate these lost ships, according to new research.
Shipping container-based housing comes to South Texas
San Antonio, Texas-based firms Development Strategies, Inc and Alamo Architects recently completed the first phase of a shipping container-based housing development in Encinal, TX. The project comprises seven container-based apartments and focuses on
Lab-grown eye tissue restores rabbits' vision
In what marks important progress toward a future where defective vision could be treated with lab-grown eyeball components, an international team of scientists has used human stem cells to build layers of eye tissue that was then implanted into rabbi
Meta-skin could lead to invisibility cloak
Engineers at Iowa State University may have gotten one step closer to the ability to make objects invisible with the development of what they are calling a flexible, stretchable and tunable meta-skin.
10 Proposed Airliners Of The Future
Air travel is a common occurrence in our modern society. When most people imagine commercial airliners, they imagine the standard tube-and-wing configuration.
70% of Internet traffic encrypted in 2016
Sandvine, a provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, has released a Global Internet Phenomena Spotlight on the state of Internet traffic encryption in 2016.
Cell 411 Is About to Become Your New Favorite Tool
Don't call 911 during emergencies, call your trusted friends instead, using Cell 411, the decentralized emergency alerting and response platform. Cell 411 is a powerful smartphone app that allows you to stream content and notify people in your cell(s
Volvo's robot refuse collectors ROAR into life
In both an impressive display of innovative technology and a glimpse of a future in which humans could be redundant, Volvo has shown off its Robot-based Autonomous Refuse handling (ROAR) project.
Steampunk effects unit powered by a single tea candle
As you light the candle-powered lamp and throw out some soothing background music with a candle-powered Bluetooth speaker, wouldn't it be good if you could add some candle-powered rotary speaker effects to your play along noodling?
Flying cars are just TWO years away:...
Traffic can be a real grind. For those travelling between work and home by car every day, the seemingly endless cycle of gas-brake-repeat at a snail's pace can wear thin.