Using Molten Salt To Store Electricity Isn’t Just For Solar Thermal Plants
by Megan Geuss: Startup follows on a number of innovative ideas to make renewable energy more flexible…
Douglas Rushkoff’s TED Talk: How To Be “Team Human” In The Digital Future
by Socrates: Humans are no longer valued for our creativity, says media theorist Douglas Rushkoff — in a world dominated by digital technology, we’re now just valued for our data…
Researchers Discover A Way To Make 3D Printing 100 Times Faster Using Light
by Luke Dormehl: Are you old enough to remember the speed increase when you jumped from a dot matrix printer to a laser printer for the first time?
Educating The Wise Cyborgs Of The Future
by Raya Bidshahri: When we think of wisdom, we often think of ancient philosophers, mystics, or spiritual leaders…
Bio-Printers Are Churning Out Living Fixes To Broken Spines
by Eric Niiler: FOR DOCTORS AND medical researchers repairing the human body, a 3D printer has become almost as valuable as an x-ray machine, microscope, or a sharp scalpel…
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Elon Musk Will “Transform Civilization As We Know It”
by Matt Pressman: Elon Musk remains a frequent target in the media. Clickbait journalists clack away at their keyboards and smear the Tesla and SpaceX CEO on a regular basis…
What Larry Ellison Brings To Tesla
by Matt Pressman: While Elon Musk might be larger than life in Silicon Valley, he’s not (ahem) universally loved there…
Scientists Engineer Shortcut For Photosynthetic Glitch, Boost Crop Growth By 40 percent
Plants convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis; however, most crops on the planet are plagued by a photosynthetic glitch…
AI Will Create Millions More Jobs Than It Will Destroy. Here’s How
by Byron Reese: In the past few years, artificial intelligence has advanced so quickly that it now seems hardly a month goes by without a newsworthy AI breakthrough…
Denmark, UK, & Canada Lead In Using Technologies To Limit Climate Change
Denmark, the United Kingdom, and Canada lead the world when it comes to implementing measures to mitigate climate change,
Electric Cars May Already Be Making Gas Cars As Obsolete As ‘Flip Phones’, Experts Say
by Joe Romm: Buying a gas car today would leave you with a financial “albatross” that has little resale value, warns Wall Street Journal…
Tesla Model S Resale Values = Best In Class
by Charles Morris: It’s always fun to talk about Elon Musk’s tweets and tokes, but when it comes to predicting Tesla’s long-term financial prospects…
Patient Receives 3D-printed Rib Implant In breakthrough Procedure
by Luke Dormehl: 3D printing made some big advances in the medical domain last year, and it seems like that trend isn’t going to slow down any time soon…
Life-or-Death Algorithms: Avoiding The Black Box Of AI In Medicine
by Thomas Hornigold: When it comes to applications for machine learning, few can be more widely hyped than medicine…
Choosing Eco-Friendly Building Materials
by Murrye Bernard: In an effort to take advantage of the public’s enthusiasm for “green” building materials…
Saving the Seas: New Technologies to Protect the Ocean
by David Pring-Mill: The ocean covers more than 70 percent of our planet’s surface…
Virgin Galactic could reach space for the first time this week
by Charlotte Jee: Virgin Galactic is going to launch a test flight tomorrow which would be its first to reach space…
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Will Gaze (And Drill) Into The Depths Of The Red Planet
by Devin Coldewey: NASA’s latest mission to Mars, InSight, is set to launch early Saturday morning in pursuit of a number of historic firsts in space travel and planetology…
NASA Turns To Private Companies For Future Moon Missions
by William Harwood: NASA has selected nine companies that will be allowed to compete for a share of up to $2.6 billion over the next 10 years to build and launch instruments…
Research In Zero Gravity: 6 Wild Projects On The International Space Station
by Peter Rejcek: It’s been 20 years since the first components of the International Space Station (ISS) were launched from Earth…
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Will Gaze (And Drill) Into The Depths Of The Red Planet
by Devin Coldewey: NASA’s latest mission to Mars, InSight, is set to launch early Saturday morning in pursuit of a number of historic firsts in space travel and planetology…
The Spatial Web Will Map Our 3D World—And Change Everything In the Process
by Peter H. Diamandis, MD: The boundaries between digital and physical space are disappearing at a breakneck pace…
The Budding Movement For A Living Economy
by Ben Beachy: A movement is afoot in the shadow of the Trump administration…
Why Scientists Are Rushing To Catalog The World’s Poop
by Marc Prosser: If a group of scientists is successful, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault will be getting a cousin—one that may initially sound rather strange…