The Problem Isn't The Robots, It's UsRichard Feynman was a legend in scientific circles.  One of the preeminent physicists of the 20th century—even other top minds considered him a magician—he is almost as well known for his jokes and pranks as he is for his groundbreaking discoveries.When Feynman was a young scientist, Eugene Wigner compared him to Paul Dirac,... Continue Reading →

Where Does Fox News Go From Here?What is the future of partisan media? Not long ago, virtually all of the news media was “neutral.”* Political talk radio goes back only to the Reagan era, and Fox News didn’t exist for most of the Clinton presidency. Nor, obviously, did partisan or ideological web sites. Even op-ed... Continue Reading →

Live From The International Space Station!The International Space Station (ISS) is a habitable satellite that was launched on October 31 2000 and has had continued human occupation ever since, the longest on record. It's an observatory and research laboratory in low Earth orbit with crew conducting experiments in Biology, Physics and Astronomy, amongst other things. The station... Continue Reading →

Environmentally friendly, energy-dense sugar battery developed to power the world’s gadgets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z45mU5BfpcY A Virginia Tech research team has developed a battery that runs on sugar and has an unmatched energy density, a development that could replace conventional batteries with ones that are cheaper, refillable, and biodegradable. The findings from Y.H. Percival Zhang, an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life... Continue Reading →

New approach developed at MIT could generate power from sunlight efficiently and on demand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8-8FveMieM A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency by using sunlight to heat a high-temperature material whose infrared radiation would then be collected by a conventional photovoltaic cell. This technique could also make it easier to store the energy for later use, the researchers say. In this case,... Continue Reading →

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