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Tuesday, February 19
Is This What Urban Buildings Will Look Like In 2050?

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Is This What Urban Buildings Will Look Like In 2050?

With internal farms, walls that convert CO2 to oxygen, and even the ability to personalize itself based on your DNA, this concept for the building of the future is a sight to behold.

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Tiny Power Plants Powered by Water Vapor

Tiny Power Plants Powered by Water Vapor

The search for clean energy sources has brought us this: tiny pieces of curling plastic powered by moisture.

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Bigger And Smarter: Wind Turbines Are Growing Up

Bigger And Smarter: Wind Turbines Are Growing Up

New networked turbines will make the power grid run more smoothly, even when the wind isn’t blowing.

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Using The Crowd To Save People After Disasters

Using The Crowd To Save People After Disasters

CrowdFlower, a site which pays people to do microtasks, has found that it can be an extremely fast and effective medium between aid workers and locals during disasters.

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Organs On A Chip Might Soon Simulate The Entire Human Body

Organs On A Chip Might Soon Simulate The Entire Human Body

It’s hard to test drugs. Animals aren’t always great analogues for humans, and putting drugs into human bodies can be dangerous. But what if we created an entirely functional version of the body? These chips are making that closer to reality.

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Bionic Eyeballs, Coming To A Face Near You

Bionic Eyeballs, Coming To A Face Near You

The next step in merging man and machine is here, with new electronic enhancements to the human eye to cure blindness.

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An App That Tells You If There Are Seats On The Train

An App That Tells You If There Are Seats On The Train

Never again get on the train only to find that you have to stand--in the Netherlands, at least. There, this new app lets you know ahead of time if you’ll be comfortable, or jammed into a sea of humanity. Perhaps you should take the next train?

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What Happens When High School Students Take A Stab At The Tricorder X Prize?

What Happens When High School Students Take A Stab At The Tricorder X Prize?

The conceptual device from a California high school comes up with ingenious ways to measure sickness that even the professionals working on the contest didn’t think of.

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