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Apr 12, 2016

$100-Million Plan Will Send Probes to the Nearest Star

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Funded by Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner and with the blessing of Stephen Hawking, Breakthrough Starshot aims to send probes to Alpha Centauri in a generation.

By Lee Billings on April 12, 2016.

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Apr 6, 2016

Canadians to develop space mining tool

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Could benefit China and their own efforts in 2017.


Deltion Innovations aims to design a drill that would prospect for water, ice and resources on the moon and beyond.

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Apr 5, 2016

Taiwanese research institute is wrapped in an undulating skin of 4,000 aluminum fins

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Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is located at Central Taiwan Innovation and Research Park in Nantou, Taiwan. It is expected to become the central facility of the Science Park to be built in this region. Noiz Architects and Bio Architecture Formosana won the competition to design the building in 2010. During the development phase, the project site had to be relocated once during the design development phase, and the construction finally completed in September 2014.

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Related: Japanese research center fuses natural design elements with energy efficiency.

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Apr 5, 2016

Will this breakthrough see an electric car in every driveway?

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Electric car batteries are getting cheaper.


Will we all drive electric cars one day? http://wef.ch/1MaNk4I

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Apr 3, 2016

Tesla Unveils Model 3 | Tesla Motors

Posted by in categories: automation, business, Elon Musk, energy, innovation, robotics/AI, science, sustainability, transportation

Apr 2, 2016

Mind-boggling Fungi Mutuarium turns plastic waste into edible mushrooms | Inhabitat — Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

Posted by in categories: food, innovation

Researchers have created an edible treat from plastic waste. For real.

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Mar 30, 2016

Reaching for the stars: How lasers could propel spacecraft to relativistic speeds

Posted by in categories: innovation, space travel

In a bold but scientifically sound proposal, NASA-funded research has laid out a roadmap toward spacecraft with relativistic speeds for the exploration of nearby stars (Credit: NASA). View gallery (8 images)

How do you send man-made probes to a nearby star? According to NASA-funded research at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), the answer is simple: assemble a laser array the size of Manhattan in low Earth orbit, and use it to push tiny probes to 26 percent the speed of light. Though the endeavour may raise a few eyebrows, it relies on well-established science – and recent technological breakthroughs have put it within our reach.

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Mar 28, 2016

Politicisation of NBN a ‘tragedy’ that has held back innovation, ABC’s Q&A told

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Innovations expert Sandy Plunkett joins panellists in criticising government’s controversial NBN model, but Wyatt Roy says it’s about separating ‘rhetoric and reality’.

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Mar 25, 2016

This Drone Can Launch from Under Water

Posted by in categories: drones, innovation

CRACUNS, an innovative drone being developed by Johns Hopkins University, can be launched from under water and live completely submerged for as long as two months. http://voc.tv/14JQHoo

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Mar 25, 2016

To the Moon! NASA Contest Kick-Starts Innovative Space Tech

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Startup NASA’s “Space Race” program will let companies vie to commercialize space exploration tech.

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