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Researcher wins 1 bitcoin bounty for 'largest quantum attack' on underlying tech
Interceptor-Drone Arms-Race Emerges
A startup called Inversion has introduced Arc, a space-based vehicle...
Mining companies are using cosmic rays to find critical minerals
They regrew a severed nerve - by shortening a bone.
New Robot Ants Work Like Real Insects To Build And Dismantle On Their Own
Russian scientists 'are developing the world's first drug to delay ageing' months after
Sam Altman's World ID Expands Biometric Identity Checks
China Tests Directed Energy Beam That Recharges Drones Mid-Flight
Jurassic Park might arrive sooner than expected, just with Dinobots.
Shelter
Flourishing in our new autonomy requires that we construct secure habitats in which to dwell. Cutting edge materials and methods provide unimaginable new options, allowing us greater mobility, and access to many previously uninhabitable environments.
Meet SAM, Brick Laying Robot That Does The Work Of 6 Humans
In the latest installment of our "Dear Bernie" series, posts intended to inform the Vermont Senator about the unintended, negative consequences of minimum wage hikes, we present SAM (Semi-Automated Mason), a brick laying robot designed and engineered
Bigelow Space stations
NASA currently is pushing forward plans for a cislunar base that is similar in size to the Skylab space station of the 1970s.
Airlander 10 airship gets outfitted for cushier landings
Hybrid Air Vehicles' Airlander 10 airship, which is the world's largest aircraft, has just been improved.
AMAZING VIDEO: Man Lifts 20 Ton Block By Hand
A builder from Michigan USA has discovered some amazing techniques of how to move and lift huge stones onto one another
Second hardest transparent material developed from common industrial ceramic silicon nitride
Scientists have for the first time developed a transparent sample of a popular industrial ceramic that is the second hardest material after diamond and can withstand substantially higher temperatures.
New modeling of fullerite and diamand based ultrahard materials
Russian physicists modeled a fullerite and diamond-based structure and demonstrated that the MIPT press office said.
This Company Just Made A 3D-Printed Home In 24 Hours For $10K
There's no doubt about it, this technology is a game-changer.
20 Strategies and Tips for Creating a Rainwater Catchment System
Living in the desert has taught me not to take water for granted. Unlike the Pacific Northwest, I am not footsteps away from streams, ponds, or a vast sea just waiting for me to collect and purify for personal use.
Thailand Introduces World's First Solar Powered Hydrogen Houses
The new development is 100% self-sustaining.
20 Strategies and Tips for Creating a Rainwater Catchment System
Living in the desert has taught me not to take water for granted. Unlike the Pacific Northwest, I am not footsteps away from streams, ponds, or a vast sea just waiting for me to collect and purify for personal use.
Southern California Edison To Bring Online 50 MW Tesla Powerpack 2 Systems
California will shortly bring more Tesla energy storage systems online in Southern California Edison's (SCE's) service area.
Scientists Just Created A "Super Sponge" That Can Remove Mercury From Water In Seconds
It takes just a few minutes to absorb the mercury from an entire lake.
Refillable vest offers last-mile wearable transport for clean water
While water scarcity gets a lot of attention, simply transporting this vital resource is in itself a huge dilemma.
How to Break Down a Door: An Illustrated Guide
How to Break Down a Door: An Illustrated Guide
Extraordinary Hotel Built 2,200 Meters Above Sea Level Is Made From Shipping Containers
This gorgeous hotel is constructed from shipping containers and left the landscape untouched.
2 tesla Magnetic Shield placed at Mars Lagrange point...
An inflatable structure(s) can generate a magnetic dipole field at a level of perhaps 1 or 2 Tesla (or 10,000 to 20,000 Gauss) as an active shield against the solar wind and allow the Martian atmosphere to thicken overtime.
Trailer Park Houses Are the Original Tiny Homes
Given that "redneck" and "hillbilly" remain the last acceptable stereotypes among polite society, it isn't surprising that the stereotypical urban home of poor, recently rural whites remains an object of scorn.
Is Their Something About to Happen? Luxury Bunker Sales Going Through the Roof
When ordinary people begin to accumulate survival gear and build bunkers in their backyards, it's a sign of the times. It's what ordinary people did throughout the Cold War, and it's what a lot of ordinary people have been doing since 9/11. But
This Guy Is Building a Sustainable Martian Habitat in His Backyard
Early last year, Jeff Raymond was hit with an epiphany. Despite enjoying the benefits of agricultural developments, he and his wife came to realize they weren't doing anything to contribute to sustainable agriculture themselves.
Solar Panel Farm Yields 17,000 Tons Of Food Annually In The Worst Climates
Sundrop Farms is challenging traditional farming by producing food in the worst areas of the world.
How To Make a Dutch Bucket Filmed by my wife
How To Make a Dutch Bucket Filmed by my wife
This New Metamaterial Is the First to Reach the Theoretical Limits of Stiffness
The most efficient foam in the known Universe.
Tesla Powerwall 2 Now Shipping With 2170 Gigafactory Batteries Inside
Tesla is finally ready to begin Powerwall 2 production and deliveries in earnest after fulfilling early batch of Powerpack 2 orders.
NASA developing carbon nanotube-based, ultra-high strength, lightweight aerospace---
--- structural material within five years for Stronger and lighter vehicles and Mars habitats
World's Highest Airship
JP Aerospace's Tandem airship flew to 95,085 feet on October 22, 2011...The thirty foot long craft flew for just over three hours. JP Aerospace, America's OTHER Space Program
The United Arab Emirates Just Released Plans to Build a City on Mars
Get ready for the future.
Perovskite mixed into solar ink can print 20.1% efficient solar onto glass or plastic
A U of T Engineering innovation could make printing solar cells as easy and inexpensive as printing a newspaper.
The Most Insane Yacht on Earth Just Got Even Insaner
AS FAR AS sporting trophies go, it's hard to find any older than the America's Cup. Sailing teams have been fighting over the ornate, sterling silver ewer since 1851.
Fully Autonomous Ships Almost Here
In response to Amazon Enters Trillion Dollar Ocean Freight Business: How Many Jobs Will Vanish? a reader commented fully autonomous ships will not be here until 2050. Actually, 2020-2025 seems like a realistic timeline.
A Cheap New Metamaterial Offers Air Conditioning Without Air Conditioners
A major advance in daytime radiative cooling.
Trump may fund the Spacex Mars Colonization plan
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, has made trips to Trump Tower. He met with Trump and the Washington Post has ben reliably told, discussed Mars and public-private partnerships.
Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment
Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many variations at
Bowl-Shaped Roofs Harvest Rainwater To Naturally Cool Homes In Arid Environments
This intriguing concept collects rainwater and cools homes in desertic climates.
Inexpensive new solar still ups water purification efficiency
In areas where clean water isn't easily accessible, solar stills can help purify available water that might be dirty or salty.
'Cloaking' Film for Windows Blacks Out the Screens Within
THE MODERN WORKPLACE has a cultural problem. Open-plan offices and glass-walled conference rooms promote transparency, but they also make it impossible to conduct business privately.
These slow-burning logs made out of coffee grounds, paraffin wax...
Most people throw out their coffee grounds without a second thought. Some toss them on the compost heap for fertilizer. A few students, however, are using spent coffee grounds in another way, one that is capable of helping others in need.
Robotic Fabricator Can precisely lay brick and weld wire...
A construction robot has to be powerful enough to handle heavy material, small enough to enter standard buildings, and flexible enough to navigate the terrain.
Elon Musk will start making traffic busting tunnels next month
Elon Musk thinks being stuck in traffic is "soul-destroying" -- but, he has a solution: tunnels. Musk has been tweeting about tunnels for a month now, and even said he's going to build a tunnel boring machine and start digging. In developed ci
Scientists unleash graphene's innate superconductivity
Already renowned for its potential to revolutionize everything from light bulbs and dental fillings through to semiconductors and motorcycle helmets, graphene can now add innate superconductivity to its repertoire.
Creating atomic scale graphene nanoribbons
Silicon crystals are the semiconductors most commonly used to make transistors, which are critical electronic components used to carry out logic operations in computing.
3D Concrete Printing. Hurricane, Tornado Resistant Houses
The first commercially-available 3D Concrete Printer will be available for purchase soon - www.totalkustom.com
Nanocomp Technologies makes bulk carbon nanotubes 100 times longer at 1-10 ....
A new commercial manufacturing process for carbon nanotubes (CNTs) produces tubes in the range of 1-10 mm in length (5-12-nm dia.), two orders of magnitude longer than currently available CNTs, which typically have lengths from 5-20µm.
Luxury solar yacht is just as spectacular as we anticipated
Remember the luxury zero emission Solarwave 62 catamaran designs from the end of 2015?
Family Thrives In The Arctic Circle By Building Cob House Inside A Solar Geodesic Dome
This geodesic dome home was made from recycled building materials, is outfitted with solar panel technology, and enables its hosts to grow food year-round.
Staying Off Grid When "Nearly Everything Is Chipped, Almost Everything Is Tracked"
If you weren't paranoid before, it may be time to start paying attention.
"They" are spying on everything you do, and are collecting information about every purchase, appliance, vehicle or place you make, do or interact with. For the first t
ULTIMATE BugOut Bag Part I
In this episode we cover the contents of my Bug Out Bag. This is a two part series. Please like, share, and subscribe.
Towards roll to roll graphene production
An innovative new cheap and simple mass production technique, developed by the University of Exeter, is set to open up the global potential of the 'wonder' material graphene.
Here are the last uncharted corners of the globe
Despite modern navigation systems, the world is still full of mystery
Tesla, Panasonic agree to make PV cells in Buffalo, New York
TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese electronics company Panasonic and U.S. electric car maker Tesla said Tuesday they plan to begin production of photovoltaic cells and modules at a factory in Buffalo, New York.