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There are some fascinating projects out there to build 3D printers that can manufacture a substantial amount of their own parts -- they are ...

Theoretical or futuristic technologies have long been a staple of science fiction. Increasingly the future of technology development has bec...

Beyond Oil The first installment of this series looked at the most highly developed offshore extraction industry, offshore oil. A wide vari...

This is the first in a series of articles about mining the sea floor for minerals. This article is about the first and largest such activity...

Here's a bit of theoretical applied science I wrote back in 1993: Using materials native to space, instead of hauling everything from E...

In today's decision in MedImmune v. Genentech , the U.S. Supreme Court held that (possibly subject to a caveat described below) a paten...

Alex Tabarrok writes another of his excellent (but far too infrequent) posts, this time about the problem of global warming and the relative...

Collision between a comet and a 370 kilogram projectile exposes subsurface ice, causing large amounts of dust and over 250,000 tons of water...

I've written about geographic patterns that demonstrate the importance of securing as well as producing wealth (link below). These have ...

Parts of the trend towards smart contracts are advances in vending machines. Indeed, a vending machine is a very ancient kind of smart cont...

Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial is the only major memorial in the United States capitol showing the names of the deceased. The ot...