Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego, have recently reported setting a world-record, by sorting huge amounts of data in minimal time. This record might have significant impact on various industries that rely on data management, since the ...

“Peugeot Verde”, designed by Michael Witus Schierup from Denmark, is one of the 29 finalists at the 5th Peugeot Design Contest. Michael’s Peugeot Verde is a green concept car designed to fit its changing environment by changing its size. It ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation hopes to excite interest in biofuels to help the ailing airline industry. In order to do so, it joined hands with the X Prize Foundation to launch a competition to develop a new bio-jet fuel, ...

The X PRIZE Foundation recently announced they are sponsoring the newly renamed Progressive Automotive X PRIZE International Competition. This $10 million competition is designed to bring about radical breakthroughs by encouraging the design and creation of a new generation of ...

Recently, more and more attention is being drawn to self automated vehicles. From newspaper articles in to exhibitions – there is a constant discussion of cars that park themselves, armed with radar sensors and cameras that recognize whenever the driver ...

NanoArt is a recent, novel integration of art and science consisting of reproductions or artistic renderings of electron micrographs, scanning tunneling micrographs, or atomic force micrographs (i.e., images visualized by electron microscopy [EM] or atomic force microscopy [AFM] or scanning ...

The Space Elevator concept appeared for the first time in 1895 when Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky considered a tower that would reach all the way into space. In the 20th century, Arthur C. Clarke introduced the concept of a space ...