You’re looking at the Applied Bacini Pegaso—one of the most productive solar cell printing lines on the planet—fabricating electrical circuits on both sides of a solar cell.

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There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world.

However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the…

It was only two years ago that IBM showed us an image of a complete molecule, atomic bonds and all, but today’s news does that one infinitesimally-sized breakthrough better.

Traditional, un-powered prosthetics aren’t exactly pinnacles of design evolution—they’re heavy, cumbersome, and don’t move like a living limbs. This new leg—using recent advances in motor, processing, and sensor technology—walks and reacts just like a real leg.

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Portal: No Escape

This six minute short film set in the Portal universe is pretty amazing.

[via Kotaku]