The Prius Prime’s efficiency, and more in the week that was
Scientists around the world are working to crack fusion power, and MIT’s reactor recently set a new world record for plasma pressure. Bill Nye the Science Guy is getting into the energy game by backing a revolutionary solar company that could cut the cost of photovoltaics by 60 percent. Researchers in the UK transmitted data across a national electricity grid for the first time, marking a big step forward for smart grids. The...
Universe may hold 10 times more galaxies than once thought
Why don’t we see them? It may be a combination of our limited technology with the evolution of the universe itself. We can only do so much to account for redshifting (the light effect as objects move further away) and interference like cosmic gas, and that’s before accounting for the ever-changing nature of the cosmos. At least the data may help answer a key riddle. The shrinking number of galaxies supports the theory that...
Recommended Reading: President Obama on science and innovation
Barack Obama:Now Is the GreatestTime to Be AlivePresident Barack Obama,Wired The White House Frontiers Conference took place this week to “explore the future of innovation here and around the world.” President Obama is also guest editor for the November issue of Wired where he discusses science and other advancements in both essay and interview form. Above is the president’s writing on technology and more....
Recommended Reading: President Obama on science and innovation
Barack Obama:Now Is the GreatestTime to Be AlivePresident Barack Obama,Wired The White House Frontiers Conference took place this week to “explore the future of innovation here and around the world.” President Obama is also guest editor for the November issue of Wired where he discusses science and other advancements in both essay and interview form. Above is the president’s writing on technology and more....
Smart sleeve warns you of impending forearm injuries
There are plenty of other established performance-monitoring devices that already do a similar job, but Ziel CEO Senthil Natarajan thinks that his firm has an edge. He believes that “coaches don’t have time for a lot of needless data that they can’t understand.” Rather than bombarding people with reams of statistics about throwing speed, the company’s deep learning tech will offer simple, useful advice in...
