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Impact Lab
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Recently rated as one of the top five science blogs in the known universe by Popular Science Magazine, the DaVinci Institute's Impact Lab is a relentless pursuit of all the critical components that will make up the world to come. We're all about uncovering cutting edge, breakthrough, and emerging technologies and the forces impacting them. And we throw in some odd stuff just for fun.
Recent Posts
China’s ‘Netizens’ Hold Authorities To A New Measure Of Public Accountability
Sun Zhongjie, 19, chopped off his own finger as a protest against police entrapment A severed finger sparked an online uproar that went viral. And very quickly, rattled authorities here took note. The story of Sun Zhongjie, a 19-year-old driver who...
Cough Into Your Smartphone For An Instant Diagnosis
Software being developed by American and Australian scientists will hopefully allow patients simply to cough into their phone, and it will tell them whether they have cold, flu, pneumonia or other respiratory diseases. Whether a cough is dry or we...
Rotterdam’s Parks Will Recycle Rainwater While Serving As Urban Playgrounds
Waterpleinen To launch its 14th anthology, Water, Alphabet City has organized a series of events this week in Toronto, two of which are the HYDROCity symposium and its accompanying exhibition at the University of Toronto. Another event is a lunchtime...
Japan’s Space Agency Planning Solar Station In Space As New Energy Source By 2030
Graphic illustration released from Japan’s Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer (USEF) shows a system of space solar power system (SSPS) It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan’s space agency is dead serious: by 2030 it...
Nanomedicine Promising For Treating Spinal Cord Injuries, Findings Show
This image represents “copolymer micelles,” tiny drug-delivery spheres that could be used in a new approach for repairing damaged nerve fibers in spinal cord injuries. The bottom graphs show data indicating damaged spinal cord tissue reco...
Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes A Chaotic Planetary System
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured this infrared image of a giant halo of very fine dust around the young star HR 8799. Before our planets found their way to the stable orbits they circle in today, they wiggled and jostled about like unset...

This is a good venue where innovation and art meet each other. It gives enough imagination/inspiration to its viewers, arousing their interests more.
Posted: July 10th, 2009 | Report This Comment