In order for cargo drones to be widely adopted, it helps if they're compatible with the existing shipping infrastructure. The creators of the Orca drone have kept this fact in mind, as their aircraft is designed to accommodate payloads stacked on standard-size shipping pallets.Co … | Continue reading
Spider silk is widely known to be one of nature's strongest and toughest materials. If everything works out as intended, an alfalfa-produced synthetic version of the stuff will be used in the construction of the Velozzi Hypercar … only 100 of which will be made.Continue ReadingCa … | Continue reading
Prague-based architectural firm Jan Tyrpekl recently revealed its latest tiny house project, a 30-sq-m (323-sq-ft) retreat perched above concrete pillars named Zen House that's nestled in the tranquil landscape of Hainburg an der Donau, Austria.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Hous … | Continue reading
DJI has announced an update to its clip-on wireless microphone system launched in April 2022. The Mic 2 now comes with internal 32-bit float recording, noise cancellation and a longer battery life.Continue ReadingCategory: Mobile Technology, TechnologyTags: DJI Innovations, Micro … | Continue reading
A plane wing that changes shape in flight to better handle the airflow crossing it could be on the horizon thanks to a materials science advance from researchers in Stockholm. The trick involves the melting and hole-punching power of lasers.Continue ReadingCategory: Materials, Sc … | Continue reading
Though best known for its iconic electric guitars, Gibson also produced its own amplifiers from the mid 1930s until the late '60s. A couple of years ago,company CEO Cesar Gueikian hinted at its return to tube amp manufacture, and now the first two combos have launched.Continue Re … | Continue reading
ZeroAvia is working with San Francisco startup Verne to bring an even more energy-dense form of hydrogen to the clean aviation space. Cryo-compressed H2 could reduce costs, speed up fueling, and unlock 40% more flight range than cryogenic liquid H2.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircr … | Continue reading
Scientists have tweaked traditional cloning of mammals that has resulted in a healthy rhesus monkey who has now passed his second birthday. It’s the first successful cloning of the species, and a big deal for researchers given that primates having proven notoriously difficult to … | Continue reading
Researchers have created a nanotherapy that selectively targets and shuts down the immune cells responsible for causing an allergic response in mice, preventing anaphylaxis. Able to be tailored to specific allergens, the novel nanomedicine could be the first to prevent allergic r … | Continue reading
A brand new photography competition has released its first ever batch of winners and finalists, and there are some truly stunning images in the mix. A portrait of a playful sea lion has taken the top gong in the inaugural Nature Photography Contest, which showcases animals, plant … | Continue reading
The most comprehensive genetic map of oral stem cells to date has provided new insight into their specialized development pathways and opens the door to targeted regenerative medicine and interventions, such as therapies to grow bone.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags … | Continue reading
"This thing's gonna be a chungus!" In the northern tip of Idaho, 70-odd miles from Spokane, Washington, a magnificently silly project is underway: a colossal batpod of a motorcycle with a KTM motor, monster truck wheels, and hydraulic steering.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycle … | Continue reading
China's Betavolt New Energy Technology has unveiled a new modular nuclear battery that uses a combination of a nickel-63 (⁶³Ni) radioactive isotope and a 4th-generation diamond semiconductor and can power a device for 50 years.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, ScienceTags: Batter … | Continue reading
A year ago at CES 2023, Mercury Marine presented its first electric outboard ever, the Avator 7.5e. For this year's show, it cranked up the power to present the highest output models of the all-electric Avator lineup. Both new outboards more than double the power of any previous … | Continue reading
By giving mice vaporized cannabis, researchers have uncovered a brain mechanism that causes the drug’s appetite-stimulating effects, known as ‘the munchies’. The findings could pave the way for therapeutics to treat appetite disorders like anorexia and obesity and to improve the … | Continue reading
An effective drug to stop potentially fatal cell damage in heart attack and ischemic stroke is one step closer to reality, after the K’gari funnel-web spider venom molecule Hi1a met critical benchmarks on its road to human trials.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Un … | Continue reading
Preventing or clearing ice build-up on surfaces is a major winter problem, as areas of the southern US are currently experiencing. Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have now developed a new thin film coating made of gold nanorods that ca … | Continue reading
Researchers have identified the likely ‘cells-of-origin’ that can lead to breast cancer in women who carry a mutated BRCA2 gene, and uncovered their vulnerability. Targeting the cells with an existing cancer drug slowed tumor progression, opening the door to a new breast cancer p … | Continue reading
It's a sad and gruesome fact that robotic lawnmowers sometimes run over hedgehogs, maiming and even killing them. That's why scientists have recently developed a rubber hedgehog stand-in, for safety-testing such mowers.Continue ReadingCategory: Good Thinking, LifestyleTags: Unive … | Continue reading
While sutures and staples suffice for closing most wounds, they can damage delicate tissue, plus they may allow fluids to leak out when applied to internal organs. Scientists have thus set about improving an alternative wound-closure method known as tissue soldering.Continue Read … | Continue reading
The world's largest music gear expo is set to open its doors next week, and Yamaha has popped up early with a groove machine called the Seqtrak that could have jumped straight out of Teenage Engineering's design playbook.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, TechnologyTags: Yamaha, In … | Continue reading
Very much following in the moto-inspired tire tracks of the likes of Super73 and Juiced, Vietnamese auto maker VinFast is rolling into the US ebike market with a model called the DrgnFly that was reportedly designed in collaboration with award-winning Dutch studio, Eskild Hansen. … | Continue reading
Last year, Duovox launched a successful Kickstarter for a full-color 1080p night-vision monocular. Now Yashica is live on the platform with a pair of night-vision binoculars that bring a touch of color to the darkness at up to 4K resolution.Continue ReadingCategory: Outdoors, Lif … | Continue reading
This latest model by French firm Baluchon is very small, even by tiny house standards – measuring just 4.5 m (almost 15 ft) in length. Featuring Japanese-inspired styling inside and out, its diminutive size means that it's very portable, though also required some clever space-sav … | Continue reading
A Northwestern University team has demonstrated a remarkable new way to generate electricity, with a paperback-sized device that nestles in soil and harvests power created as microbes break down dirt – for as long as there's carbon in the soil.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, Sc … | Continue reading
Scientists have given yeast a brand new ability – gaining energy from light. The technique was remarkably easy, the team says, and could not only help us understand evolution but make better beer and biofuel.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Yeast, Evolution, Light, … | Continue reading
A new study has found that there was no association between using cannabis and non-medical opioid use in people receiving pharmacotherapy for opioid use disorder. The findings neither confirm that using cannabis leads to opioid use nor that it's effective in reducing it.Continue … | Continue reading
The largest study of its kind ever carried out in the UK has found that 7,180 of the 40,393 hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 could have been avoided had the population been fully vaccinated.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Universit … | Continue reading
Researchers have developed a novel way to treat bladder cancer. Powered by urea, a waste substance found in urine, nanobots propel themselves to and penetrate the tumor to deliver their onboard radioactive treatment. After one dose, tumors in mouse models shrank by almost 90%, op … | Continue reading
Astronomers have discovered a colossal cosmic structure that’s so big it threatens to undermine our entire understanding of the universe. The Big Ring spans about 3% of the radius of the entire observable universe – and it itself might be part of an ever bigger structure.Continue … | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered why cognitive performance improves after exercise: the ‘feel good’ hormone and neurotransmitter dopamine. They found that exercise released dopamine, which produced a corresponding reduction in reaction time, and say that exercise could be an effective … | Continue reading
Elon Musk has Xeeted out a video of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot folding a t-shirt – which would be great, but then followed up with a second Xeet clarifying that the video is far less impressive than it looks – after being called out by observers.Continue ReadingCategory: Robo … | Continue reading
If a new rocket developed by University of Glasgow engineers seems to get smaller as it burns, your eyes aren't playing tricks. It is. The new Ouroborous-3 (sic) rocket engine conserves fuel by eating itself as it burns.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Rocket, Univer … | Continue reading
If you're conducting covert military reconnaissance, you probably don't want the enemy seeing what's obviously a drone flying overhead. That's where the Evolution Eagle is intended to come in, as it's a drone that just looks like a big ol' bird.Continue ReadingCategory: Drones, T … | Continue reading
While it's always important to accommodate bicycle commuters, bike parking spots on trains can't seat non-cyclists when not in use. An experimental setup currently being trialled in Switzerland, however, may soon change that.Continue ReadingCategory: Urban Transport, TransportTag … | Continue reading
For many wheelchair users, one of the biggest problems with using a chair is not being able to stand as tall as other people. The Kim-e wheelchair was designed with that fact in mind, as it raises its user into an upright stance in just a few seconds.Continue ReadingCategory: Goo … | Continue reading
China's Fiio – which recently announced a mechanical keyboard with a built-in DAC – has launched a new flagship desktop media streamer and headphone amp/DAC combo that's dominated by a slick smartphone-like user interface.Continue ReadingCategory: Home Entertainment, TechnologyTa … | Continue reading
If you're looking for an ebike that's good for the commute and for weekend exploration of dirt tracks and mountain trails, then a gravel bike could provide the versatility you need. Spain's Crow Bicycles has launched new lightweight Gravital models with SRAM wireless shifting.Con … | Continue reading
MVRDV has revealed plans for a new tower in Chengdu, China. Rising to 150 m (492 ft) tall, the office high-rise will be arranged around a large full-height atrium filled with greenery that will help the interior maintain a comfortable temperature naturally.Continue ReadingCategor … | Continue reading
Brit musical instrument maker Dubreq has released a number of key upgrades to its iconic pocket synth over the years, but the Stylophone CPM DS-2 is something of a departure from the usual playbook.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, TechnologyTags: Synthesizer, Analog, Portable, In … | Continue reading
It’s official: 2023 was the hottest year on record. Independent analyses by NASA, NOAA, WMO, Copernicus and the UK Met Office all reached the same conclusion, with the year also breaking a slew of other records and experiencing a string of severe weather events across the globe.C … | Continue reading
Power demand spikes in the early morning and later evening, when solar arrays can't help. But researchers in Scotland say orbital launch costs are getting so cheap that giant space-based reflectors could soon be a viable way to power these timeslots.Continue ReadingCategory: Ener … | Continue reading
An international team of neuroscientists has for the first time identified five distinct subtypes of Alzheimer’s disease, in what could be a breakthrough for treatment approaches and efficacy. They call for researchers and medical professionals to look at the disease not as a sin … | Continue reading
In two separate studies, German researchers have identified the single-gene mutation that can lead to the incurable autoimmune disease lupus. The discovery opens the door to developing new therapeutic approaches and testing for the mutation, which would ensure early diagnosis of … | Continue reading
If Tyrannosaurus rex is too mainstream, discerning 10-year-olds may now have a new name to spout when asked their favorite dinosaur – Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis. The newly identified species appears to be more primitive than its famous cousin, but just as big and scary.Continue Rea … | Continue reading
Using a popular culinary technique, researchers have created a foam infused with carbon monoxide to boost the effectiveness of autophagy inhibitors, an experimental cancer therapy that until now has produced mixed results in clinical trials. The novel foam offers a promising appr … | Continue reading
The crippled Peregrine Moon Lander is heading back toward Earth, and is expected to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere on January 18, 2024. This is the conclusion of the latest tracking data from Astrobotic’s Mission Control Center.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: NAS … | Continue reading
With the usual ballyhoo, NASA and Lockheed Martin have rolled out the X-59 supersonic aircraft today. In a ceremony at the famous Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, the experimental plane was introduced to the public before a party of dignitaries.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircr … | Continue reading