Newly developed AI-based method can accurately predict wildfires

Researchers made an artificial intelligence process that determines the location of wildfires, based on machine learning. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

NASA successfully tests robot balloon meant to one day explore Venus

JPL’s Venus Aerial robotic balloon may soon be on a mission to Earth's sister planet. NASA is a step closer to further exploring Venus with the success of this test flight. | Continue reading


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Battery power mod allowed Tesla Model S to go 1,600 miles without charging

This modified Tesla Model S traveled 1,600 miles without plugging in. Here's how. | Continue reading


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“Fastest internet network in the world is upgraded to 46 Tb/s

The Energy Sciences Network has been upgraded to ESnet6, boasting a bandwidth of 46 Terabits per second, becoming the fastest internet network in the world. | Continue reading


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Man Uses 99 Phones and a Handcart to Create “Virtual Traffic Jam” on Google Maps

Simon Weckert, a Berlin-based artist, tricked the renowned app into thinking that a completely empty street is bursting with traffic. | Continue reading


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DIY website lays down steps to make a chess cheating tool

While agencies formally investigate the allegations, a website tells us how plausible the suspected tools are and how easy it is use them. | Continue reading


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SpinLaunch just catapulted a NASA payload into the sky for the first time

The private space company's test demonstrated the viability of catapulting certain satellite components into the sky. | Continue reading


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Man sells 3D-printed firearms to a buyback program for $21,000

New York AG's "Cash for Guns" program tells residents that they can trade in firearms for money and many people on Twitter were considering doing so. This inspired the man to use a $200 3D printer he'd gotten for Christmas to make some cold hard cash. | Continue reading


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Netherlands researchers break the 30 percent barrier in solar cells

Using perovskite with existing solar cell technologies can increase their energy conversion efficiencies. It is only about scaling it up reliably now | Continue reading


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Tesla bot: Optimus robot danced but not to the tunes of critics

The first version of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot's slow walk on the companies AI Day 2022, has not gone well with some critics, but many are supporting the "feat." | Continue reading


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Princeton scientists overcome key setback in achieving nuclear fusion

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have taken a critical step forward toward achieving nuclear fusion | Continue reading


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Dalian flow battery energy storage station is largest, most powerful worldwide

The 100 megawatt Dalian Flow Battery Energy Storage Peak-shaving Power Station was connected to the grid in Dalian China on Thursday. | Continue reading


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Elon Musk criticizes patents and says they ‘are for the weak’

Elon Musk says that "patents are for the weak" on CNBC's “Jay Leno’s Garage” while giving Leno a tour of the SpaceX Starbase facility in Texas. | Continue reading


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Coffin Chair

The chair's maker argues that they represent the grim reality of working life: humans are not meant to sit for as long as they do during business hours. He even argues that long sitting periods can lead to an early death. | Continue reading


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The first flying bike can stay in the air for 40 minutes

XTurismo is an advanced flying bike currently available only in Japan. However, its makers say it is slated to be introduced to the US in 2023 while they also hope to engineer an electric version by 2025. | Continue reading


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Taiwan’s tech billionaire plans to train 3M warriors

A Taiwanese tech tycoon plans to defend against possible "Chinese invasion" by training three million "black bear warriors." | Continue reading


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China builds world’s 2nd most powerful magnet, and it’s tiny

The 45.22-tesla magnet sits just shy of the record for the world's most powerful magnet. It could help unlock new innovations including nuclear fusion. | Continue reading


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CEO Mark Zuckerberg is 'creepy and manipulative,' says Meta's new AI Chatbot

The chatbot iteration may be new but there is nothing special that it delivers. It gleans information from the internet and adds nothing more. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

A transhuman biohacker implanted over 50 chips and magnets in her body

In conversation with Lepht Anonym, a faceless, genderless British biohacker that has implanted over 50 magnets and chips in her body for sensory 'kicks'. | Continue reading


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Scientists can now grow wood in a lab without cutting a single tree

Scientists at MIT have developed a technique using which customizable plant matter can be produced in a lab without the need of cutting trees. | Continue reading


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The only car to ever go supersonic

The Thrust SSC is the fastest vehicle on land. Find out how it beat all records. | Continue reading


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New artificial muscle is stronger, more flexible than natural ones

By slightly changing how materials are made into elastomers, UCLA researchers have opened a new world of opportunities for artificial muscles. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

Meteorite could revolutionize electronics and fast-charging

New discoveries from 50,000 year old 'Diablo Canyon' meteorite could have interesting potential applications for future electronics. | Continue reading


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Radiant could provide safe, portable nuclear energy within the next 5 years

Former SpaceX engineer and Radiant CEO Doug Bernauer told us "execution is everything." | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

Necrobiotics: Researchers are turning dead spiders' legs into robotic grippers

Mechanical engineers Daniel Preston and Faye Yap of Rice University have devised a method of using dead spiders to delicately grasp small object and other tiny animals. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

Mechanics invent an axle that can achieve steering angles of up to 80 degrees

U.S.- German auto parts company ZF has engineered a strut suspension front axle concept called EasyTurn, and it allows the front wheels to turn up to an incredible 80 degrees. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

How the US almost blasted an alternative Suez Canal using 520 nukes

Declassified documents from a national lab reveal a plan by US officials to use nuclear bombs to excavate canals through Israel and Panama. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

James Webb: possible to seek alien life clues in the atmospheres of exoplanets

To search for alien life, astronomers will look for clues in the atmospheres of distant planets – and the James Webb Space Telescope just proved it’s possible to do so. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

The world's 'most durable' E-motor runs continuously at over 90% peak output

A new E-motor runs non-stop at over 90% peak output without overheating. It could unlock the potential of electric vehicles, per to its manufacturer. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

Perovskite-silicon solar cells break the 30% efficiency barrier

The researchers surpassed the milestone of 30 percent for the first time and established two certified world records. | Continue reading


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IBM’s 3D chip stacking process could revive a famous rule on computing power

IBM Research partnered with Tokyo Electron to streamline the 3D chip stacking process and alleviate the strain on the chip industry for years to come. | Continue reading


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The first operational 'sand battery' can store energy for months

A team of researchers from Finland has set up the world's first commercial-scale 'sand battery' that be used to store power generated from renewable sources for months at a time to solve the problem of year-round supply. | Continue reading


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A solar powered carbon capture system to help remove tons of CO₂ from the atmosp

The technology was developed by carbon capture company AspiraDAC, with its first customer Stripe aiming to install it this year. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

Switzerland’s 20M kWh ‘water battery’ is now operational

The concept of water batteries may be centuries old but is now the need of the hour to store energy in a sustainable manner. | Continue reading


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Scientists develop first-of-its-kind implant that relieves pain without drugs

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a small, flexible implant that can relieve pain on-demand and disappear into the body's biofluids. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

Company aims to power the world by digging the deepest holes ever

A company called Quaise Energy wants to melt rock with X-rays and repurpose coal and gas plants into deep geothermal wells. | Continue reading


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We are days away from seeing James Webb’s first scientific images

NASA officials are 'getting it ready to release' in a matter of days. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

A 9k passenger cruise will make its maiden voyage to the scrapyard

The Global Class of ocean ships offers the best luxuries money can buy. But since the pandemic has found no takers. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

Garage-sized reactor could provide limitless energy with magnet-free technology

The alternative nuclear fusion firm behind it just raised $160 million in funding. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

Novel 3D batteries for EVs can be charged more than 98% in under 10 minutes

The U.S.-based Enovix's 3D silicon lithium-ion batteries can help EV adoption by massively reducing charging times. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

The future of quantum RAM? Scientists watch two time crystals interact

Quantum physicists created two time crystals and watched them interact with each other. And it could have big implications for quantum computing. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

Scientists discovered a new molecule that kills even the deadliest cancer

A team from UT Dallas has discovered a molecule that destroys adamant cancer cells. Experiments on mice and human tissue found that the compound was effective even in the most aggressive tumors, offering hope. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

US Army will have a portable nuclear reactor ready by 2024. Here is how it works

The US military's portable nuclear reactor will have a capacity of up to 5 MWe and be ready for operational testing by 2024. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

The biggest ever four-day workweek trial kicks off in the UK

The largest-ever four-day workweek trial is now being conducted in the UK, putting Iceland's successful trial in second place. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

Japan's trial of a deep ocean turbine could offer limitless renewable energy

A Japanese machinery maker called IHI Corp. has successfully tested a prototype of a massive, airplane-sized turbine to generate electricity from powerful deep-sea ocean currents. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

We just moved one step closer to a true 'quantum internet'

New research out of the Netherlands might have given us a vital building block for a super-secure internet of the future. | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

What happens to old shoes and how mass production deals with waste

It turns out modern shoe production and disposal are pretty bad for the environment. So, what can be done about it? | Continue reading


@interestingengineering.com | 1 year ago

Scientists can now grow wood in a lab without cutting a single tree

Scientists at MIT have developed a technique using which customizable plant matter can be produced in a lab without the need of cutting trees. | Continue reading


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