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Image via Wikipedia General Motors and Segway have teamed up on Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), a two-wheeled city vehicle capable of reaching speeds up to 35 miles per hour, and going 35 miles on a single charge at a cost of 35 cents per charge. Aside from the promise of nimble, inexpensive

By turning computer circuits into unsolvable puzzles, a University of Michigan team aims to create an unhackable computer with a new $3.6 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Todd Austin, U-M professor of computer science and engineering, leads the project, called MORPHEUS. Its cybersecurity approach is dramatically different from today’s, which relies

A perfect vacuum is impossible to achieve, at least in theory.   As anyone with any interest in quantum physics would know, the vacuum is full of various particles that fluctuate in and out of existence. These “virtual” particles have been the focus of scientist, Christopher Wilson. Working with his team at Sweden’s Chalmers University

“Our turbines make virtually no noise.” The potential damage to bird and bat populations by large wind turbines is often used as an argument against more wind power installations, and serves as great fodder for comments here on TreeHugger when we publish something about wind technology. But there are other options for viable wind turbines that are claimed to be bird- and

China is running out of room for its growing urban population. This amazing design–an entire prefab city that floats on water–could magically create more space. As China prepares to squeeze in 350 million new urban residents over the new decade, the government will pave 5 billion square meters of new roads and build hundreds of

Researchers from Würzburg and London have built the foundations for a new field of nano-optics: they have succeeded in controlling the coupling of light and matter at room temperature. Publishing in a journal like Science Advances usually heralds a particularly exciting innovation. Now, physicists from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in Germany and Imperial College London

The net-zero energy test house at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in suburban Washington, D.C., not only absorbed winter’s best shot, it came out on top, reaching its one-year anniversary on July 1 with enough surplus energy to power an electric car for about 1,440 miles.* Despite five months of below-average temperatures

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is therefore likely a safer option than geoengineering Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and gas have been increasing over the past decades, causing Earth to get hotter and hotter. There are concerns that a continuation of these trends could have catastrophic effects, including crop failures in the

Researchers develop novel supercapacitor architecture that provides two times more energy and power compared to supercapacitors commercially available today Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a novel nanometer scale ruthenium oxide anchored nanocarbon graphene foam architecture that improves the performance of supercapacitors, a development that could mean faster acceleration in electric vehicles

The indoor unit’s sensors measure temperature, humidity, air pressure, CO2 levels and sound levels There is no shortage of smartphone apps that compile information from official weather monitoring sources,but if you’re looking to get some info on conditions closer to home – or inside it – then the Urban Weather Station from Netatmo could fit the