Technological Revolution

STUTTGART, Germany (PNN) - March 26, 2013 - The race to build the world’s first production electric supercar is over. And Audi blinked.

It’s not that Ingolstadt’s on again/off again R8 e-tron wasn’t a deliciously indulgent glimpse into what one-percenters will add to their rolling war chest. In fact, there’s still a glimmer of hope the four-ringed brand might actually develop and sell the electrified R8 in limited numbers. But it wasn’t long after Audi teased journalists with parking-lot-speed test drives on closed roads that the sleek EV disappeared from the product planning lineup.

GENEVA, Switzerland (PNN) - March 14, 2013 - It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago.

In what could go down as one of the great Eureka! moments in physics - and win somebody the Nobel Prize - scientists said Thursday that after a half-century quest, they are confident they have found a Higgs boson, the elusive subatomic speck sometimes called the "God particle".

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - March 1, 2013 - Eighteen-year-old Taylor Wilson has designed a compact nuclear reactor that could one day burn waste from old atomic weapons to power anything from homes and factories to space colonies.

The growing use of RFID chips inside human beings – regardless of the technological conveniences they may provide – are fraught with frightening repercussions. In this case, a scientist who voluntarily had a chip implanted in his body has developed a computer virus. Just because we can do something doesn’t mean we should do it.