With Patent Giveaway, Tesla Shows Silicon Valley What Ingenuity Means
• Wired.comTesla CEO Elon Musk says that by openly sharing its patent portfolio with the rest of the world, his company will help expand the market for electric cars.
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Study: West Antarctic Glacier Melt Due To Volcanoes, Not Global Warming
• dailycaller.comA new study by researchers at the University of Texas, Austin found that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is collapsing due to geothermal heat, not man-made global warming.
Cockpit revealed for Bloodhound supersonic car
• gizmag.comUnveiled at a special event in Bristol, UK, the Bloodhound land speed team showed off the cockpit that will be driver Andy Green's "office" for his record attempt run in 2015 and 2016.
MIT fusion reactor gets restarted
• http://www.dvice.com, Robin BurksMany scientists believe that the future of clean and renewable energy could come from nuclear fusion.
NASA's new warp-speed spaceship concept is very familiar
• http://www.dvice.com, Addy DugdaleNASA scientist Harold White has long believed that warp speeds are possible.
Glorious technicolor digital pen writes in every shade under the sun
• http://www.dvice.com, Addy DugdaleImagine a pen that would allow you to draw in every color under the sun.
Brain-controlled exoskeleton to help kick off FIFA 2014 World Cup
• gizmag.comOn June 12th, the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Brazil will be kicked off by a paralyzed person using a highly innovative brain-controlled robotic exoskeleton.
Removing Salt To Relieve The World's Thirst
• popsci.com97 percent of water on Earth is salt water. What if we could drink it?
Oculus Game Lucky's Tale Will Blow Your Mind
• Wired.comI've tried to describe Lucky's Tale, with words and stuff, to other people at the E3 show here in Los Angeles. I can't do it. I usually end up saying, "You've just got to go try it."
Everything About Colloidal Silver
• Lewrockwell.comTwo thousand, three hundred years ago, Alexander The Great was surveying his battlefield and drinking water from silver urns.
This Week In Science
• weeklyscience.comPhysicists use diamonds to reach quantum teleportation breakthrough The Milky Way could contain 100 million planets with complex life
New construction technique allows concrete domes to be "popped up"
• gizmag.comThere probably aren't many domed concrete structures where you live, and there's a reason for that – they're difficult to build.
American scientists controversially recreate deadly Spanish Flu virus
• http://www.independent.co.uk,The extinct influenza virus that caused the worst flu pandemic in history has been recreated from fragments of avian flu found in wild ducks in a controversial experiment to show how easy it would be for the deadly flu strain to reemerge today.
Form 1+ 3D printer is twice as fast as the original
• gizmag.comBack in 2012, Boston-based Formlabs managed to attract almost US$3 million in crowdfunding for the launch of its original Form 1 SLA (stereolithographic) 3D printer, which shipped in May of the following year.
Google's New All-Seeing Satellites Have Huge Potential—For Good and Evil
• http://www.wired.com, By Marcus WohlsenThe reach of Google's online empire is hard to overstate.
Johns Hopkins researchers create 'mini-retina' out of stem cells
• rawstory.comIn another step towards reversing degenerative vision loss, scientists said Tuesday they had coaxed stem cells into growing into a tiny, light-sensing retina in a lab dish.
Robot Furniture Rearranges Itself on Demand
• arcleinEach roombot (not to be confused with the robot vacuum cleanerRoomba) is a completely independent unit — a 9-inch-long (22 centimeters) block that resembles a pair of dice joined together. It contains a battery and three small motors that allow it to
An integrated solar-powered energy conversion-storage-utilization system
• nanowerk.comAlmost all strategies for solar energy harvest and solar energy storage that exist today are developed as independent technologies.
Is the World Cup being played on real grass?
• mnn.comWell yes … and no. To answer that question, let's take a minute to talk about sustainable design.
Mind-controlled exoskeleton to kick off World Cup
• newscientist.comTHE star of the World Cup may not be able to bend it like Beckham, but they might be able to kick a ball using the power of their mind.
A Spaceship For The Sea
• http://www.popsci.com, By Ajai RajThis vertical structure will allow scientists to better study the ocean.
How Google's New Satellite Company Is Going To Change The World
• Business InsiderGoogle just paid $500 million for Skybox Imaging, a company that provides the world's first commercially available, daily HD video satellite system.
New Private Spacecraft Will Be 1st US Space Lifeboat in 40 Years
• http://www.space.com, By Raphael RosenThe next U.S. spacecraft designed to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station also needs to act as a lifeboat if something goes wrong on the orbiting outpost.
High-performance supercapacitor doubles performance of commercial alternatives
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Dario BorghinoResearchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a new graphene-based supercapacitor that uses a nanoscale architecture to double its energy and power performance compared to commercially-available alternatives.
Biotech Makes Personalized Cancer Vaccines Using Tumor Samples
• technologyreview.com, By Susan Young RojahnTraining immune cells with genes harvested from a patient's own tumor could make an already promising new cancer treatment even better.
You Should Learn to Trust Robots. It's for Your Own Good
• http://www.wired.com, By Emily AnthesA robot could save your life, if you're smart enough to let it.
Roadside Laser Could Remotely Detect Drivers' Alcohol Breath
• http://www.popsci.com, Douglas MainSpotting drunk drivers from a distance. With lasers.
Video: Fabien Cousteau Answers Your Questions About Life Under The Sea
• http://www.popsci.com, By Rose PastorPlus, a tour of the underwater lab Aquarius
Now You Can Buy A Bulletproof Blanket Specifically Made For Kids To Use During School Shootings
• businessinsider.comIt's come to this. We've now had so many mass shootings that entrepreneurs see space in the market for a bulletproof blanket, made specifically to shield small children from gunfire.
Successful Stem Cell Therapy in Monkeys is First of Its Kind
• arcleinResearchers used a common procedure to reprogram macaque skin cells, and coaxed them into pluripotent cells that were capable of building bone. They seeded these cells into ceramic scaffolds, which are already used by surgeons used to reconstruct bon
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