Using this state-of-the-art technique will benefit the agency by saving millions in manufacturing costs. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. is using a method called selective laser melting, or SLM, to create intricate [...]

For decades, “bigger is better” has been the conventional path to efficiency in industries ranging from transportation to power generation. Food once grown on small family plots now comes overwhelmingly from factory farms. Vessels that [...]

Frangioni’s approach is quite different. One of the main forces driving the move to open access is the idea that if the public has already paid for research through taxation or philanthropy, then it’s not [...]

A new company lets you do a short internship at other jobs, no matter how old you are. If you’ve always thought you should be a chef but don’t know how to find out, now [...]

Researchers complete first phase of models on the Physical Internet The Physical Internet – a concept in which goods are handled, stored and transported in a shared network of manufacturers, retailers and the transportation industry [...]

Instead of merely showing borders, this new atlas lets you play around with data big and small about the planet today–and its future. Atlases used to be dusty old things your family stored on a [...]

Betaville is like SimCity, if SimCity actually simulated a real city. We recently had the opportunity to play the new version of SimCity, a city-building game series that has been popular for over 20 years. [...]

LUIS VON AHN, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, sold one Internet start-up to Google in 2009, and is now on to another. With the new company, Duolingo, he hopes to tap the millions [...]

Move over, Daily Deals and Flash Sales, “Crowdsourcing” is now the biggest fad in ecommerce. Sites in which members invent, design, curate and market products for the marketplace are gaining in popularity. Three such sites [...]

The debate is still raging whether Bitcoin is a brilliant idea that will revolutionize business and society, a high-tech money laundering scheme, or just a fad that will soon pass into history. But in a fascinating post, Jon Matonis points [...]

I was searching the web for ideas, as usual, and as I am searching the web for crowd funding information, I stumbled on GoFundMe. At first I thought it would be just yet another crowd funding [...]

This new model comes with a host of potential pitfalls An effort to build a sleek aluminum charging dock for the iPhone generated fervor online when it was announced last December. The project’s creators raised close to [...]