Designed like a giant tree, the Urban Skyfarm is covered in leaf-like decks that provide space for real trees to grow So far, most existing vertical farms look like big greenhouses or plant... Read more
At first, Krista Easom figured the little red bump on her foot was nothing more than a blister. It didn’t hurt, but after a couple months, it didn’t go away either. She booked an... Read more
Engineers and industry agree that although challenges abound in utility-scale solar in the sunniest places on Earth, we have the technology to go big in the desert The vast and glittering Iv... Read more
The world’s best dye Quantum dots are tiny nanocrystals with extraordinary optical and electrical properties with possible uses in dye production, bioimaging, and solar energy production. Re... Read more
A long-running philosophical debate is being rehashed in the world of business, and big money is at stake, says Stephen Ornes AT SOME point in their career every mathematician comes up again... Read more
Handling tasks that formerly could only be done by people At the recent Chicago Automate 2013 show of automation and robotics, Yaskawa Motoman drew huge crowds to watch its SDA10F double-arm... Read more
Electrical engineers at Oregon State University have discovered a way to use high- frequency sound waves to enhance the magnetic storage of data, offering a new approach to improve the data... Read more
The hope is that at least one of the tubes will start a revolution KRIS PUPEK, an industrial chemist at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, near Chicago, waves a tube of white powder in t... Read more
Zoology, botany, geology and anthropology departments will be dissolved Previous expansion projects force the natural history center to address shortfalls with $3 million in cuts to its annu... Read more
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory are developing a mobile reactor they say will one day play a crucial role in helping people after natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy. Two weeks... Read more
The Mayor’s Challenge is a contest run by Bloomberg Philanthropies to find the best ideas bubbling out of our cities–from data mining to turning foreclosed houses into urban farms. It’... Read more
WORLD’S FIRST NEURAL-CONTROLLED BIONIC LEG In a historic climb, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) research subject, Zac Vawter, will climb 103 floors of the Willis Tower using the fi... Read more
Experts predict near-Earth space will become difficult to navigate by mid-century unless agencies start removing the mess. Gassy outbursts from a suborbital rocket may be the cleanest way to... Read more
