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Digital stone alerts the degree of drunkenness
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Digital stone alerts the degree of drunkenness

Last year, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student Dhairya Dand drank too much at a party, and woke up in the emergency room after seven hours of drunken dri…

December 11, 2018
'In' stone moon tool
New technology

'In' stone moon tool

As lunar reclammers needed new tools to replace the damaged parts, like the base of the spacecraft, they just took lunar rocks and piled into 3D printers, according to a…

December 11, 2018
IRock recharges the battery
New technology

IRock recharges the battery

Micasa Lab, a leading Swiss retailer of furniture, has launched a charger that supports battery chargers and rear-seat speaker systems for iPads and iPhone smartphones.

December 11, 2018
Super tracking device
New technology

Super tracking device

In the past, when armies fought each other, they often left a lot of bombs and mines to kill people when the war ended. Ground-based sensors, also known as UGS, created…

December 11, 2018
Improve oil extraction with new techniques
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Improve oil extraction with new techniques

The exact map of a large underground oil field was developed to direct engineers' efforts to bring oil from large rocks into wells so that the oil could be pumped up for…

December 11, 2018
New techniques have seen fossils unprecedented
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New techniques have seen fossils unprecedented

Scientists created the first three-dimensional picture of tiny fossils dating back to 850 million years, using pre-existing laser technology. They did not even have to s…

December 11, 2018