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With her maiden flight just a few short weeks away, the newest 787—and the first for Virgin Atlantic—is all set to take to the skies. And to honor this momentous machine, Virgin has just released this stunning time lapse video of its construction.
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Most bridges are compromises: Cars want to speed low and straight across the water, but but boats want to pass under them. So we wind up with either tall bridges (expensive) or moveable bridges (clunky and awkward). But now a Dutch engineering firm has come up with a radical solution that doesn’t involve the bridge—instead, it lowers the water 26 feet to let ships safely pass.
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Meet Nixie, a wearable camera that flies off your wrist and turns into a remote-controlled quadcopter. It’s the bizarre-yet-appealing wearable camera drone nobody asked for… and now I kind of want it.
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There are probably lots of justifiable reasons why carmakers haven’t got around to making an electric pickup that anyone can buy (range and demand would be just two), but that doesn’t mean such vehicles don’t exist. Engineers at Nissan, with a little…
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Using chloroplasts and a silk product RCA graduate Julian Melchiorri developed a synthetic biological leaf that absorbs water and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen, just like a real plant! Needless to say, in large quantities, these could help the human race set up space colonies on distant planets such as Mars. Watch the video to […]
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Age 11 is when you’re most passionate and optimistic, says Australian filmmaker Genevieve Bailey. So she created a documentary looking at the world through the eyes of 11-year-olds in 15 countries.
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Since Texas became a state, the Rio Grande has marked the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But, like rivers do, it moved. In 1964, the U.S. finally gave back 437 acres of land.
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