Commuting by bus is considered a great way to lower your carbon emissions. However, in doing so using the currently available options, you’re sacrificing your comfort as well. Industrial designers are trying hard to make people believe that when parking
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While most of us concentrate on making a building effectively a zero-energy structure by incorporating alternative sources of energy such as solar rooftops and small wind turbines a team of architects from University of Michigan are looking elsewhere. And
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If you have deep pockets, then be prepared to dig a little deeper for this gold plated bicycle. Purchased by Otto Hauser 20 years ago, a cycling enthusiast, the bike is pegged to sell for 2,000 pounds at an auction. Hauser himself had splashed 1,800 pound
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Graphene seems to be the favorite subject of research off late and it is understandable why. Every modern gadget and cutting edge technology, that ranges from simple transistors to nanotechnology, use graphene at some level. But till very recently it was
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Grzegorz Milczarek and Olle Inganas have come up with an ingenious new idea that could make batteries a lot cheaper and also ecologically safe when compared to the current models. These two researchers are proposing the use of Lignin based material as a c
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Prominence is a unit that generally sticks to competing in solar races and they are pretty good at that. But it seems like they are fine with designing cool new urban commuters that are all-electric and will speed ahead at 75kph. They have just pulled the
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Scientists from across the planet seem to have come together to unravel the mysteries behind the thermoelectric conundrum that they have been facing since long. Researchers from Chinese Academy of Science’s Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Brookhaven Natio
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Whenever we think of robots, many of us are bound to have reveries of those glimmering metallic contraptions moving around and doing our bidding. However, in this case, some scientists at Virginia Tech from United States have managed to notch it up a leve
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Zeng Lingjun is an immigrant worker in Shenyang, who came to the big city from a small village with plenty of dreams. While the hard-working cobbler settled down in the big city and found steady work, it was finding an affordable place to live in that tur
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About two years ago this supercar, Porsche 918 hybrid concept was unveiled at Geneva Motor Show and after four months in the same year it officially headed for production. Now the car you see here is the bits and pieces assembled and tested by the Porsche
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