Renewable energy got a much needed momentum boost, when the White House announced an executive order by President Obama on a solar energy initiative. The executive order would add 50,000…
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The oldest species in the shark taxonomy, a rare Megamouth shark, was caught off the coast of Shizuoka, Japan last month. The shark was only the 58th of its species…
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NASA has released a new HD video of earth taken from space on the International Space Station! Check out the link to watch a 29 second video clip: http://news.yahoo.com/video/international-space-station-captures-hd-172805343.html
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For the first time in the U.S., the state of Vermont has passed a law to require labeling of foods that contain genetically modified ingredients. The law takes effect July…
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Australian-based Aerospace Concepts has announced a partnership with Lockheed Martin’s D-Wave Systems to develop the first cloud software platform that may take advantage of the quantum computers being used by…
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The Netherlands-based Mars One space colony project has narrowed its astronaut candidates down to 705 on Monday May 5th. The plan to land the first permanent human colony on Mars…
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While we’ve heard of personal 3d printers for hobbists, what’s become a quiet boom, is the use of the same technologies for industrial parts printing called ‘additive manufacturing’. Companies like…
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You may have heard of Masdar in the United Arab Emirates on TV somewhere, the first truly self-sustainable green city on earth. Now, a neighborhood in the Hudson Yard area…
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Even older than the Nazca lines (and culture), a new set of ancient geoglyphs have been discovered in Peru. What is interesting is that these lines are attributed to the…
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Sounds like something out of the movies! 1000 ounces of gold were recovered from an 1857 shipwreck off the coast of South Carolina. The S.S. Central America was a steamship…
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The oldest man in the world is 111 and lives in New York, of all places. Who’d have thunk? What’s even more surprising is there are 60 women who are…
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First it was Google self-driving Priuses in California. Now, a real world car maker, Volvo, has launched the “Drive Me” pilot project to test a 50 km route for autonomous…
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Soft drink giant Coca Cola has dropped the controversial additive brominated vegetable oil from its products. The ingredient causes skin irritations and is toxic to the body according to WebMD.…
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In an interesting move that touches upon the national debate on the uses of drones for warfare and civillian privacy issues, Yosemite National Park in California has adopted a stance…
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No more waiting in line at ticket kiosks, folks. Two railway networks in New York are going ticketless by offering commuters the option to purchase tickets on their smart phones!…
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We’ve seen it in sci-fi movies since the genre began: scientists growing their own food and greens on space ships of one form or another. Now it’s become a reality…
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Learning from the lessons of the severe gasoline shortages in the East Coast following Hurricane Sandy, the U.S. Dept of Energy now has a 500,000 barrel gasoline reserve (not to…
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Never a bad thing to hear! Some 288,000 jobs were added to the American economy resulting in the highest job increase in the last 2 years. http://www.techsonia.com/us-employment-rate-rose-in-april-economy-recovered/195608/
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Not to be outdone by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic or Elon Musk’s Space X, Boeing has unveil a 10 seater commercial spaceship cabin to be ready for flight by 2016!…
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UFOs, ancient druids and conspiracy theories, step aside! Scientists have solved a perplexing question on how the ancient Egyptians were able to move such large bolders into place to create…
