New Urban Algae System Generates Energy While Cleaning Wastewater in Paris Read more: New Urban Algae System Generates Energy While Cleaning Wastewater in Paris | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Ennesys, a Paris-based energy systems company and OriginOil, an American algae harvesting company just unveiled their new urban algae demonstration project in La... Continue Reading →

High-Energy Physicists Smash Records for Network Data TransferPhysicists led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have smashed yet another series of records for data-transfer speed. The international team of high-energy physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers reached a transfer rate of 339 gigabits per second (Gbps)—equivalent to moving four million gigabytes (or one million... Continue Reading →

Obama signs Safe Web Act into law President Obama signed into law on Tuesday a bill that would reauthorize the Federal Trade Commission's authority to clamp down on Internet fraud and online scammers based abroad.  Outgoing California Republican Rep. Mary Bono Mack was the lead co-sponsor of the bill, the U.S. Safe Web Act, which expands... Continue Reading →

China prepares to grow vegetables on Mars Chinese astronauts are preparing to grow fresh vegetables on Mars and the moon after researchers successfully completed a preliminary test in Beijing, state media reported.Four kinds of vegetables were grown in an "ecological life support system", a 300 cubic metre cabin which will allow astronauts to develop their... Continue Reading →

Neri Oxman: On Designing Form

http://youtu.be/txl4QR0GDnU Architect Neri Oxman is the founder of MATERIALECOLOGY, an interdisciplinary design initiative expanding the boundaries of computational form-generation and material engineering. Named one of Fast Company's "100 Most Creative People in Business," Oxman investigates the material and performance of nature in an effort to define form itself.

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