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What do robotic lightning bugs have to do with cars and mobility? With flying cars and personal jetpacks positioned to be the next big thing in mobility, technology will need to discover more compact, lighter, and cheaper ways to move forward. These tiny flying robot fireflies, created at MIT, could be the root of a …

When the San Francisco Bay Area experienced a record 30 consecutive days of worrisome air quality alerts in August and September, Mary Prunicki began taking blood samples from firefighters. The sky had turned orange from nearby wildfires. Thousands of firefighters would spend months battling the blazes, which would eventually scorch more than 4 million acres …

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Recap and Outlook of Worldwide Edge Computing Industry and Technology in 2021” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The development of the worldwide edge computing industry diversified in 2020 with clearer information on applicable technology and application areas. Cloud service providers have tried to meet telecommunication service providers; needs with distributed cloud …

The ballots were cast in the minutes after midnight, becoming some of the first cast and counted on Election Day. By tradition, all eligible voters gather in the storied “Ballot Room” at The Balsams resort in Dixville Notch to cast their secret ballots once polls open at midnight. Once every ballot is cast, votes are …

Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock The world-altering coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic is thought to be just 60 nanometres to 120 nanometres in size. This is so mind bogglingly small that you could fit more than 400 of these virus particles into the width of a single hair on your head. In fact, coronaviruses are so small that …

Designers in the Czech Republic are working on the country’s first 3D-printed tiny home.  The structure can be built in only 48 hours, with the help of a robot called Scoolpt. The tiny home also floats on a pontoon, but can sit on land, and is largely self-sustaining. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. …

She’s been leaning on her friends amid news she’s on ‘a break’ from on-and-off beau, Scott Disick, who recently checked himself out of rehab.  And Sofia Richie took to social media on Saturday morning to show her man what he’s missing.  The 21-year-old beauty stripped down to a pair of tiny shorts to pose for …

An activated carbon filter — found in many household filtration systems—can purify your drinking water, but it’s no match for wastewater that contains military-grade explosives. To clean wastewater from munitions processing and demilitarization, a pair of University of Delaware environmental engineering professors and a UD engineering alumnus are teaming up to test a novel technology …

California-based residential design and construction company Plant Prefab has recently revealed its latest tiny house that is jam-packed with smart technology. Dubbed LivingHome 10, the 496 sq-ft (46-sq-m) dwelling is designed as an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) and features a smart voice command system that can access Wi-Fi, adjust the thermostat, control the lights, help …

“We know from ‘C.S.I.’ that we leave DNA everywhere,” said Sean Rogers, a biologist at the University of Calgary who published a review of eDNA technology in November. “With conservation it became — instead of taking nets to try to capture fish or hoping to catch something on a wildlife camera — let’s take forensics …