Six Generation III+ reactors set for the U.S.
[Popular Science. Read Original] The Big Picture: It’s nearly impossible to imagine making meaningful carbon dioxide reductions without designing safer, cleaner reactors and rolling them out immediately — because no one wants to build more of the reactors we have today.… Read the rest
An artery-fixing tool does its job, then fades away
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Every year, 800,000 Americans elect to have a tiny metal-mesh tube inserted into their coronary artery to prop it open and improve blood flow to cardiac muscle tissue.… Read the rest
Denmark calls a global conference, and puts an American in charge
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Katherine Richardson is atypical. This American oceanographer is thriving at the University of Copenhagen, where she serves as Vice Dean of Science. In the genteel worlds of academia and northern Europe, she’s a straight-talker who doesn’t mince her words–uttered with a hearty Massachusetts accent.… Read the rest
Tech-savvy artist pushes for gadgets that everyone can use [Popular Science. Read Original]
Twenty-two-time Grammy winner Stevie Wonder has created new sounds, even genres, by absorbing and reshaping every musical and audio technology he’s encountered.… Read the rest
A new competition aims to inspire the 100mpg personal plane
[Popular Science. Read Original] Imagine a ’57 Chevy cruising through the air, and you get an idea of what single-engine, propeller-driven airplanes do to the environment. The average private plane, such as the popular two-seat Cessna 172, is 30 years old.… Read the rest
A radical new power plant aims to convert our dirtiest fossil fuel into clean-burning hydrogen
[Popular Science. Read Original] Big lumps of sooty coal hardly seem like the future of energy, but that’s exactly what the U.S. Department of Energy predicts.… Read the rest
