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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.

TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor) announced that its seven-nanometer plus (N7+), the industry's first commercially available Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology, is delivering customer products to market in high volume.

"The process is simple and swift."

Under construction! Drone footage shows Elon Musk's gaint stainless steel SpaceX Starship - which plans to take passengers and cargo to Mars - being built in the Florida sun

It's not uncommon for factories to make use of robots to manufacture things like cars, each responsible for a different part of the build process.

According to an emerging tech company in Silicon Valley, there is no such thing as a universally-healthy food: What's healthy for one person can be inflammatory for another.

The handle kills bacteria by the action of a thin titanium dioxide film on the outside of the clear handle. The chemical is known to be a photo-catalyst, so when the UV lights activate the coating, it reacts to water or oxygen to create hydroxyl radi

Experts know that a strange species of bacteria found in oxygen-deprived sediment and soil can generate electricity. But they only recently learned that the microorganism achieves this through a method that differs from that used by other electric ba

-spacesuits for the first space tourists to wear next year

The industry science behind EMF radiation is more corrupt than that of climate science, and has been so since the beginning. With the imminent rollout of 5G, no scientific studies have been done on exposure to humans at any distance. ? TN Editor

Unmanned aircraft could transport packages across tough terrains and inform future initiatives to introduce autonomous vehicles.

A team of Japanese experts created the 'blood' complete with red blood cells, which carry oxygen, and platelets, which trigger clotting when the skin is cut or grazed. When tested on 10 rabbits with severe blood loss, six survived. The scient

We've long had anecdotal evidence of THC helping Alzheimer's patients, but now we have several scientific studies on the subject that show evidence that THC has a beneficial effect on Alzheimer's plaques.

Almost just like getting a small-block V8, only electric

A car crash, a bad fall, or a even a kitchen accident can come out of nowhere and it can be fatal. Emergencies are never planned, which is why learning how and when to use a tourniquet is crucial.

Tesla bought, Hibar Systems, a Richmond Hiller, Ontario-based battery maker. Hibar is a world leader in the development of battery manufacturing technology.

A veteran who lost the lower half of his body in an explosion has received one of the world's first penis transplants -- and he's calling it "one of the best decisions I ever made."