True to its aeronautic roots, NASA is evaluating a new generation of supersonic airplane designs to see whether they can reduce sonic-boom levels. Boeing and Lockheed Martin have submitted futuristic concepts that look similar to the Concorde, but aim to muffle the annoying and potentially damaging sonic boom problem. Airplanes flying faster than sound create a cone of pressurized air molecules that... 

Do you wonder how to make a homemade nuclear reactor? Mark Suppes is part of a growing community of amateur “fusioneers”. Many might be alarmed to learn of a homemade nuclear reactor being built next door. But what if this form of extreme DIY could help solve the world’s energy crisis? By day, Mark Suppes is a web developer for fashion giant Gucci. By night, he cycles to a New York... 

Here’s your chance to own a unique piece of football history from the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa: The official Jo’bulani ball that was used in the final match. To get your hands on the golden Jo’bulani ball that Spain and The Netherlands have fought over, in Sunday’s final at Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg, you can place your bid! 100% of the money raised will... 

The researchers have combined this “shear-thickening” liquid with Kevlar to create a new bullet-proof material. The company is keeping the chemical formula of the liquid a secret, but it works by absorbing the force of the bullet strike and responding to it by becoming much thicker and more sticky. The BAE scientists describe it as “bullet-proof custard”. “It’s... 

Prototyping is the pivotal activity that structures innovation, collaboration, and creativity in design. Prototypes embody design hypotheses and enable designers to test them. Framing design as a thinking-by-doing activity fore- grounds iteration as a central concern. This paper presents d.tools, a toolkit that embodies an iterative-design-centered approach to prototyping information appliances.... 

Choking back a tear, NASA has announced the dates of the final missions to be made by the Space Shuttle. Discovery will lift off on November 1, for a 10-day mission carrying parts to the International Space Station. After that, February 26, 2011, will mark the last shuttle flight, as Endeavour takes the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer up to the ISS on a 13-day mission. The possibility is left open that... 

Today most of us don’t even visit a bank but utilize all the services at the our comfort. Although it wasn’t always like this. Modern technologies have completely revolutionized banking. Here is the list of such Top 10 technologies. No 10. CCTV and Security Gadgets Gone are the days when the bank needed to hire a private army of security personnel to patrol the nooks and corners of the... 

Invisible ink, buried money and radio transmission: in many ways it seems the Russian spy ring recently apprehended by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) took its cues from old-school Soviet operatives. With one notable exception: in the case of the classic spy “dead drop” – a location used to secretly pass items between two people – these spies went digital. According to the DOJ’s... 

During the colonial era, European countries set up outposts in Africa where they could get cheap labor and natural resources. And today Europeans build solar farms in Africa, extracting sunlight from the Sahara to power high-tech cities in the north According to Inhabitat: If just one percent of the Saharan Desert were covered in concentrating solar panels it would create enough energy to power the... 

College costs never seem to be lowering in today’s world and with global economy still in crises, it might be a good idea to put out a plan for your college fees well before you pass out high school. Today we take a look at some of the top ways to pay for your college. No 10. Work and Study Well, you can find many part-time jobs around, of which some pay you pretty well for the time you put in there....