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Jean Lievens: 3d BIoprinting — Fascinating and Frightening

Fascinating And Frightening Ways 3D Bioprinting Is The Next Big Thing In Medicine And Science #3dthursday 3D printing technology is taking off in the medical science community, especially in emerging methods known as “bioprinting.” Instead of inks, plastics and other artificial materials, science and medical labs use a patient’s actual living human cells to replicate …

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SmartPlanet: Bio-Pods in Ocean + Unstoppable Renewable Grid

Bloom: Photosynthetic pods for mid-ocean living Phytoplankton are microscopic organisms that float around the water surface, harnessing sunlight to make energy for themselves. Like plants, they use chlorophyll to produce oxygen while absorbing carbon dioxide. So, with impending sea level rises, French architecture firm Sitbon Architectes designed a livable, phytoplankton farm to be installed in …

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Smart Planet: In the Philippines, turning plastic waste into fuel

In the Philippines, turning plastic waste into fuel Plastic waste is a problem all over the world. And it is especially troubling in the Philippines where plastic waste piles up in Manila’s Payal landfill, unable to decompose. But one inventor thinks he might have found the answer to this chronic problem. Jayme Navarro, founder of Poly-Green …

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Winslow Wheeler: The F-22, Toxic Stealth, Secrets Screw Sick…

Dina Rasor and Pierre Sprey have collaborated on an important and informative piece on the F-22.  It expands the publically available thinking about the nature of the toxicity problem facing F-22 pilots, and–just as importantly–it probes the nature of one of the prime suspects for the problem: the F-22’s “stealth” coating.  Note at the end of …

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Sepp Hasslberger: New ‘terahertz’ scanner lets mobile phones see through walls

This opens up vast possibilities of consumer-accessible imaging technologies that are less damaging than x-rays. Imagine your tricorder decked out with a terahertz chip… New ‘terahertz’ scanner lets mobile phones see through walls “A hi-tech chip allows a phone to ‘see through’ walls, wood and plastics – and (although the researchers are coy about this) …

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