In 2021, Australian mining and cleantech company Fortescue announced a plan to float the world's first ammonia-powered ship by 2022. It's a bit late, and not quite as ammonia-powered as we hoped, but the Green Pioneer now appears ready to roll. Continue Reading Category: Marine, … | Continue reading
This week’s global NVIDIA GTC, GPU Technology Conference, included a discussion about using accelerated computing to drive environmental sustainability initiatives and climate action. Continue Reading Category: Technology Tags: NVIDIA, Business, Climate Crisis, Artificial Intelli … | Continue reading
An age of greener, more efficient shipping may be in the offing as a specially modified 43,000-tonne bulk freighter completes a six-month sea trial using a combination of diesel engines and a set of high-tech automatic sails to catch the wind. Continue Reading Category: Environme … | Continue reading
Sometime this year, the night sky will get a brand new 'star' that will be visible with the naked eye, even in the city. The celestial light show will be the result of an explosive interaction between two neighboring stars that occurs every 80 years. Continue Reading Category: Sp … | Continue reading
Teslas have long made popular base vehicles for camper conversions ... even though they're not really sized or shaped for traditional RV packages. We've seen a few different spins on the Model Y camper, from hatchback tents to full camper kits, but New Zealand startup presents wh … | Continue reading
A month ago, we were impressed by these robots being able to pick things up, put them in the right spot, open doors and charge themselves. But new video released hours ago makes it clear that autonomous humanoid work is starting to accelerate like mad. Continue Reading Category: … | Continue reading
Psilocybin mushrooms have been illegal since the ’70s. Deemed not to be beneficial to health and considered ripe for abuse, it’s only relatively recently that research highlighting the medicinal benefits of psilocybin, particularly in treating psychiatric disorders, has gained ac … | Continue reading
A slim, lightweight wood-fire or charcoal grill for go-anywhere searing is easy enough to find, but if you prefer the precise temperature control and smoke delivery of a pellet grill, your options become limited ... not to forget bulky, heavy, and often tied to an electrical sock … | Continue reading
The Octo Max crams almost 20 functions into a single carabiner multitool. One could soon be yours for a pledge of US$59, if its Kickstarter campaign works out – and that seems likely to happen, as it has already far exceeded its funding goal. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors, … | Continue reading
The Chasing X brings a new form factor to mini ROVs, looking a bit like a submersible quadcopter. It's designed mainly for the underwater inspection of things like ship hulls, bridge pilings and aquaculture operations, although it can also grab stuff if need be. Continue Reading … | Continue reading
China's Bigme has launched a color E Ink tablet that's billed as the first to run Android 13 out of the box. The latest InkNote has access to Google Play, sports a 10.3-inch Kaleido 3 color display with stylus support, and comes packing front and rear cameras. Continue Reading Ca … | Continue reading
Using artificial intelligence to monitor and control existing technologies is likely to give birth to all manner of wondrous new devices in the near future and this indoor vegetable-growing machine is a prime example. Continue Reading Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle Tags: Fo … | Continue reading
Japan now boasts a new tallest skyscraper, the Mori JP Tower. Rising to a height of 325.2 m (1,066 ft) in Tokyo, the building is designed to reduce its grid-based energy usage with sustainability features and to be resilient in the face of the country's seismicity. Continue Readi … | Continue reading
A small research group from the University of Michigan has developed a three-legged skating/shuffling robot called SKOOTR that rolls as it walks, can move along in any direction and can even rise up to overcome obstacles. Continue Reading Category: Robotics, Technology Tags: Univ … | Continue reading
Games are onslaughts of sight and sound, and with rumbling controllers, even touch. But have you ever wondered what all 1,000+ Pokémon smell like? Because we have. With the news of a weird device called GameScent, we’ve rounded up a list of which game worlds we’re most curious to … | Continue reading
Engaging in activities that are designed to blow off steam when you’re angry – like jogging or hitting a punching bag – probably isn’t going to be effective at reducing your anger, researchers have found. It’s better, they say, to try activities that decrease your physical arousa … | Continue reading
A common, usually harmless bacteria have a significant role in causing stomach cancer, a new study has found. It joins the better-known, at least in medical circles, H. pylori bacteria as a known cancer risk. Researchers identified the bacteria’s mechanism of action, opening the … | Continue reading
We humans like to think we’re so clever, but in many cases nature has beaten us to the punch with a better version. The newest example comes from a humble insect that’s probably in your own backyard, which makes nanoscale soccer balls that hide it from predators – inspiring bette … | Continue reading
Incorporating a phase-change material into concrete, researchers have created a self-heating material that can melt snow and ice for up to 10 hours without using salt or shovels. The novel material could reduce the need for plowing and salting and help preserve the integrity of r … | Continue reading
Ski-doo is best known for personal watercraft. But it's also well known for snowmobiles. Yellowstone National Park is known for its geysers, wildlife, and herds of tourists in the summer. Combining Ski-doo and Yellowstone makes for a bucket-list trip. Continue Reading Category: A … | Continue reading
A new wireless EV charging pad can fill a car's battery as efficiently as a wired plug, at groundbreaking 100 kW power levels – unlocking the possibility of fast, efficient and super-convenient charging simply by parking in a designated spot. Continue Reading Category: Automotive … | Continue reading
People living in part of Sweden will soon be receiving food deliveries by aerial drone. The service, which utilizes multicopters that look rather like old-timey milk transportation cans, may subsequently be introduced throughout the country and beyond. Continue Reading Category: … | Continue reading
The Toaster is claimed to be the world's most portable bike rack and from the looks of things, that may very well be the case. It folds flat when not in use, and can accommodate up to five bikes of almost any wheel size. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles, Transport Tags: Bike R … | Continue reading
Back in 2022, Canadian bike maker Biktrix launched a powerful hardtail off-road ebike that featured two drivetrains – pedal power to the right and high-power motor to the left. Now the Juggernaut XD has gone full squish for 2024. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles, Transport Tag … | Continue reading
India's Toy Storey, by Wallmakers, showcases an unorthodox approach to recycling, with the residence incorporating approximately 6,200 unwanted toys into its exterior. It also has an attractive overall form that maximizes ventilation and shade to provide a comfortable interior te … | Continue reading
The booming alternative assets market space added yet another heavyweight genre this week as the world record for a business card was smashed twice today by both Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, and the auction still has four days to run. Continue Reading Category: Collectibles, Lifesty … | Continue reading
Humanoid robots are entering the workforce. Following in the footsteps of Figure 01 at BMW and Digit in Amazon's R&D facility, Apptronik's Apollo bot is helping skilled human workers build cars for Mercedes-Benz. Continue Reading Category: Robotics, Technology Tags: Humanoid, App … | Continue reading
A West Texas company says it's found a remarkably simple way to slash air cargo costs as much as 65% – by having planes tow autonomous, cargo-carrying gliders behind them, big enough to double, or potentially triple their payload capacity. Continue Reading Category: Aircraft, Tra … | Continue reading
Aware of the link between eating red and processed meat and the incidence of colorectal cancer but not the biological basis for it, researchers have now identified two genetic markers that may explain it. Understanding the disease process and the genes underlying it can help deve … | Continue reading
Whether you see AI as an incredible tool with massive benefits or a societal ill that only benefits massive tools, a powerful new chip can train them faster than ever. Cerebras Systems has unveiled the world’s fastest AI chip – the Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3), which powers the C … | Continue reading
The 108-m (356-ft) long Radia Windrunner is designed to transport cargo too big for the road, to short, semi-prepared airstrips on rough terrain. It would dwarf the majestic 84-m (275-ft) long Antonov An-225 Mriya, which is sadly no longer with us. Continue Reading Category: Airc … | Continue reading
NASA's Voyager 1 deep space probe may get a new lease on life thanks to an unexpected download from one of its onboard computers. After months of sending back gibberish instead of collected data, the craft may have provided a clue to its salvation. Continue Reading Category: Spac … | Continue reading
Sleep apnea can negatively impact health and well-being, but treatment is limited to poorly tolerated positive pressure masks (CPAP) and, in the worst cases, surgery. However, in a recent trial, a nasal spray showed promise as a treatment for the most common sleep-related breathi … | Continue reading
The last we looked, the world's lightest traditional rooftop tent came from California shop Inspired Overland (IO). With its all-new Go, British tentmaker Tentbox undercuts IO by several pounds, grabbing the market's top spot for ultralight design. The skeletal softshell Tentbox … | Continue reading
It's quite understandable that the COVID-19 pandemic should impact automotive quality. Continue Reading Category: Automotive, Transport | Continue reading
A new Swedish-designed front end for transport trucks could help reduce driver deaths in collisions with passenger cars. The structure is designed to both spread and absorb the force of impact between the two vehicles. Continue Reading Category: Automotive, Transport Tags: Chalme … | Continue reading
Scientists have converted a children's "drinking bird" toy into a tool that generates usable amounts of electricity. The generator could one day be utilized to power a wide variety of small electronic devices, both indoors and outside. Continue Reading Category: Energy, Science T … | Continue reading
The multi-award-winning Sharrow Propeller family is growing. The new Sharrow CX incorporates the company's toroidal design into a contra-rotating propeller set. The sculptural new prop doubles up on looped blades with the promise of bringing Sharrow's efficiency-boosting, noise-c … | Continue reading
Described as "buildings within a building" by the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the recently completed Epiq takes the form of a series of stacked blocks. The tower's unusual design is well-suited to the local climate and maximizes outdoor space and views next to a large park in Quit … | Continue reading
Lenovo probably isn't the first brand that springs to mind if you're on the lookout for a robot dog to patrol your warehouse, but its Shanghai innovations lab has been building bots for a few years now. The latest hasn't been officially announced, but we can get a taste for what' … | Continue reading
Pianos can become the heart of a home, and some become intergenerational heirlooms loaded with memories. Letting them go once they're unplayable can be very hard, but an Australian sculptor has found a way to resurrect them, to jaw-dropping effect. Continue Reading Category: Musi … | Continue reading
Using an AI-based approach, researchers found a better way to create the drug galantamine, commonly prescribed to people suffering from Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. The fermentation-based technique could boost the drug's availability. Continue Reading Category: Medica … | Continue reading
Eating small amounts of licorice, in keeping with the World Health Organization’s suggested daily intake, may still cause high blood pressure in otherwise healthy young people, a new study has found. The findings highlight the need for caution when consuming the sweet black treat … | Continue reading
Farming snakes as a high-protein, low-fat food source may be a more sustainable way of taking the pressure off conventional livestock farming which has been ravaged by climate change and diminishing natural resources, new research suggests. Continue Reading Category: Science Tags … | Continue reading
Taylor Swift fans have been linked to some well-reported seismic activity during her current worldwide 'Eras' concert tour. With none other than the Seismological Society of America, which has been researching earthquakes since the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, publishi … | Continue reading
A dramatic image of a soccer ball covered in invasive goose barnacles has taken out the top prize in this year's prestigious British Wildlife Photography Awards, beating out more than 14,000 entries capturing the world around us. Continue Reading Category: Photography, Technology … | Continue reading
Scientists have discovered that audio recordings of healthy coral reefs may help attract free-swimming coral larvae to damaged ones. The finding could be a major step toward preserving the world's coral reefs, an estimated 25% of which have died out in the last 30 years. Continue … | Continue reading
Camper van specialist Remote Vans is growing its footprint with a brand-new production facility and three-model lineup of Mercedes Sprinter 144 AWD campers. The builder steps beyond the ordinary, innovating much of its own hardware to reflect its founders' overlanding, digitally … | Continue reading