Tag: Arctic, Climate change, engineering, global warming, infrastructure, Internet, News
Melting ice makes Arctic a target for a new deep sea internet cable
Each day an estimated 95 percent of the world’s data travels across the roughly 900,000 miles of submarine fiber optic cables...
Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband
In the average American house, any download rate above roughly 242 Mbs is considered a solidly speedy broadband internet connection....
Japan’s SLIM moon lander survives a second brutal lunar night
SLIM, Japan’s first successful lunar lander, isn’t going down without a fight. After making history—albeit upside down—in January,...
New material neutralizes 96-percent of virus cells using nanospikes
Researchers at Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) have combined brute force with high tech manufacturing to...
This implant will tell a smartphone app when you need to pee
For people dealing with spina bifida, paralysis, and various bladder diseases, determining when to take a bathroom break can be an issue....
Boom Supersonic’s prototype jet sets off on first flight
The race to reboot commercial supersonic travel is well underway, and one company just took a major step forward. On Friday, Boom...
This wormy robot can wriggle its way around a jet engine
A new wormy robot could help with jet engine inspections at GE Aerospace, according to an announcement this week. Sensiworm, short for...
Drones offer a glimpse inside Fukushima nuclear reactor 13 years after disaster
A team of miniature drones recently entered the radioactive ruins of one of Fukushima’s nuclear reactors in an attempt to help Japanese...
Flexible, resilient origami-inspired bridges could help navigate disaster zones
Origami traditionally involves the creation of extremely delicate paper structures, but the art form’s underlying principles could soon...
A cargo ship’s ‘WindWing’ sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day
A shipping vessel left China for Brazil while sporting some new improvements last August—a pair of 123-feet-tall, solid “wings”...
