Category Archives: Science
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Mar
Mar
Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC) has newly released information on their Voyager Station project. It will be launched as the first commercially available of its kind, performing on artificial gravity and a hosting capacity of up to 400 people. OAC mentions this as a largely historic event, enabling humans to live outside of the Earth for…
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Sep
Sep
Opening up a new field of design for construction technology, the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is envisioning futuristic materials that repair themselves. After recently launching the Engineered Living Materials (ELM) program, DARPA’s goal is to create a whole new class of construction materials. Imagine engineering living cellular systems into the…
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Jun
Jun
Researchers at Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi have created a new coating for glass that blocks heat transfer at less cost than traditional methods.
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Jun
Jun
How much do we really know about the connection between EMFs and health concerns. Should we worry about our LED bulbs and EMFs?
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Mar
Mar
Yes, you read the title correctly – reversible concrete! It seems like an oxymoron – concrete is known for its stability and strength, and its permanence. Well, not anymore! Last October at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Self-Assembly Lab at MIT and Gramazio Kohler Research of ETH Zurich showed off a process that might finally one-up…
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Jun
Mycoremediation, the use of fungi to treat water and soil, could be the stormwater filter of the present and future. Â A couple of projects in Portland, Oregon are putting the science to the test. According to Wikipedia, “one of the primary roles of fungi in the ecosystem is decomposition, which is performed by the mycelium….
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Apr
Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) is bringing science fiction to life, launching two demonstration projects to create and test a carbon-free, power-to-gas system for the first time ever in the U.S. The technology converts electricity into gaseous energy and could provide North America with a large-scale, cost-effective solution for storing excess energy produced from renewable…