"Gloria" will allow internet astronomers to access worldwide robotic telescope network

"Gloria" will allow internet astronomers to access worldwide robotic telescope network: "Amateur astronomers wanting to observe celestial bodies soon won't be limited to just their own personal telescopes, or visits to the local public observatory. Starting next year, the first in a worldwide network of robotic telescopes will be going online, which users from any location on the planet will be able to operate for free via the internet."

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Bosco Verticale: the world's first vertical forest

Bosco Verticale: the world's first vertical forest: "Italian architecture firm Stefano Boeri Architetti hopes to merge vegetation and urban architecture, with its Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) project. The Milan-based firm has designed a model that could see the "reforestation and naturalization" of metropolitan cities, by growing forests sky-ways."

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App turns smartphone into a medical monitor

App turns smartphone into a medical monitor: "Users of the Pulse Phone app may be justifiably impressed at the way in which it lets them measure their heart rate, simply by placing their finger over their iPhone's camera lens. Well, a biomedical engineer at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts has taken that concept several steps farther."

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Marchi Mobile's eleMMent RV - a luxury mansion on wheels

Marchi Mobile's eleMMent RV - a luxury mansion on wheels: "Partially based on a 2001 design by Luigi Colani, this mobile luxury villa resting on a DAF XF 105 track chassis features deliberately radical elements such as the highly conspicuous oval windscreen that make the it stand out at first sight."

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Initiative challenges young minds to design Space Station science experiment

Initiative challenges young minds to design Space Station science experiment: "YouTube and Lenovo have joined forces to launch a global initiative that challenges youngsters to design a science experiment which can be performed in space. Two winning entries chosen by a panel of scientists, astronauts and educators - "

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