Important Innovations

  D AILY INNOVATION BRIEF                                                                                                          By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane HYUNDAI'S CRAB DRIVING ELECTRIC CAR                                                     Source:  Hyundai South Korean automaker Hyundai has created a crab driving, electric vehicle that can parallel park into a tight parking space on autopilot This remarkable piece of automotive engineering can also drive sideways Hyundai just debuted its e-Corner system that enables parallel parking by the driver turning the wheel 90-degrees and activating a "crab walk" button to roll perpendicularly into the parking space It can also drive diagonally at a 45-degree angle for high speed quick changes in direction The new technology can also do a 360-degree turn without taking up more room than the size of the car Hyundai appears to have a big winner in this new technology, which it is continuing to develop. NASA

Life in 100% Hydrogen Atmosphere Source:  NASA's Hubble Telescope Big Impact on Search for Life in Space Scientists at MIT have made a major discovery.   They've found that microorganisms - life - exists in an atmosphere of 100% hydrogen.  In fact, organisms found on Earth can survive in environments  previously considered inhospitable and composed of 100% hydrogen. Expanding the Search for ET The findings have a big impact on the search for life in space.  A significant number of exoplanets, or  orbiting stars, contain atmospheres with large amounts of hydrogen.  These exoplanets have been ignored in the search for alien life until now.  Award-winning astrophysicist MIT Professor Sara Seager, who led the study, is urging astronomers to expand the types of planets where they are searching for ET. Warm Planets Prof. Seager also discovered that worlds in space, even at a distance ten- times away from a star with a hyd