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The Fungus That Could Replace Plastic
Motherboard correspondent Alejandro Tauber traveled to the Netherlands to meet some of the scientists and designers who have come up with a viable replacement for plastic: fungus.
Solar Plane
If we trust Bertrand Piccard's Solar Impulse, soon we'll be flying around the world in airplanes powered by the Sun.
The Living House
Imagine a future where the cities we live in are built in accordance with nature, where buildings are designed to incorporate features from ecological systems without compromising technological innovation or the quality of the environment. If it sounds...
Weather Lasers
World water use is rising faster than our world population. The tiny island nation of Tuvalu has been crippled by drought and may be just the first island nation to run dry. Texas has been hit by massive dust storms thanks to that state's record...
Sailing Drone
After visiting the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in June of 2010, a young engineer decided to develop an open source oil spill cleaning robot, Protei.