Did you know that the discovery of a way to make ammonia was the single most important reason for the world’s population explosion from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 7 billion today?
Concrete is one of the most commonly used architectural materials in the modern world, but it’s also one of the most fragile—at the slightest contact with rain, cracks can become routine and burden the structure with studious maintenance.
Science fiction author William Gibson once remarked that the future was already here, just unevenly distributed. What he meant was that the futuristic dreams of the ‘60s, was only off the mark in that the gadgets wouldn’t be available for everybody anytime soon.
A new museum dedicated to the advanced technological inventions of ancient Greek scientist Archimedes, has just opened up in Ancient Olympia, Greece, according to a news announcement in the Greek Reporter.