The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to biochemist Katalin Karikó and immunologist Drew Weissman for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Nobel prizes, Coronavirus (CO … | Continue reading
A vintage Cold War spy plane is getting a new lease on life as Lockheed Martin's notorious yet secretive Skunk Works completes the first test flight of a Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady with an upgraded avionics suite and cockpit displays.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, TechnologyTa … | Continue reading
There are now two Mercedes-Benz EQE models. One is a car, the other an SUV. Both are electric and both are great entries into the emerging EV market. We spent some time behind the wheel of the 2024 Mercedes-Benz AMG EQE 600 4Matic and were impressed.Continue ReadingCategory: Auto … | Continue reading
The pickup topper market has absolutely exploded over the past five years or so, making it more and more difficult for any given product to stand out. And yet, small startups continue to find ways to do so. Las Vegas' Packout Campers is the latest to shoot across our radar, havin … | Continue reading
While air freight is certainly the fastest method of transporting cargo, it's also by far the most expensive. The Droneliner aircraft could help change that, by doing away with a crew and adopting a more cargo-friendly body shape.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: … | Continue reading
As any car-chase action movie will tell you, the gasoline used in our vehicles is flammable, explosive stuff. Scientists have created a new combustible fuel, however, which stays safely non-flammable for transport and storage.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: Fuel, UC Rivers … | Continue reading
More than a decade since the first low-powered but fuss-free, easy-to-use, inexpensive laptops running Chrome OS were launched, Google has now announced the Chromebook Plus program – a new performance-focused category with built-in AI.Continue ReadingCategory: Laptops, Technology … | Continue reading
Years before Samsung and others started tackling microplastic from machine washes escaping into the environment, there was Slovenia-based PlanetCare. Now the company has announced its second-generation external filter.Continue ReadingCategory: Around The Home, LifestyleTags: Micr … | Continue reading
Having delivered on its initial promise of an egg-shaped off-grid tiny house, Ecocapsule now plans a new and improved model. Named the Ecocapsule NextGen, the dwelling will maintain the same novel egg-like form but in a more spacious shell.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, L … | Continue reading
After lighting up its 580,000-sq-ft LED-packed exterior for the first time back in July, Las Vegas' newest entertainment venue officially opened for business this weekend with the first of a string of Achtung Baby live concerts by rock band U2.Continue ReadingCategory: Technology … | Continue reading
Lifestyle interventions to treat or prevent type 2 diabetes and obesity are not necessarily the easiest changes to make. However, one study has found that adding a prescribed period of natural light to your day could significantly improve health markers, without any other changes … | Continue reading
"This is really the most incredible thing I've ever seen," said podcast host Lex Fridman, interviewing Mark Zuckerberg in VR using Meta's stunning new photorealistic avatars, coming soon to Quest, so lifelike that they "cross the uncanny valley."Continue ReadingCategory: Virtual … | Continue reading
On the largest scales possible, the universe resembles a web of light spun by an inconceivably large spider. Now, astronomers have detected very faint light from these cosmic web filaments in the deep, dark, distant universe.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Caltech, … | Continue reading
Renewable energy grids need lots of energy storage – and EVs plugged into charging stations represent a huge, city-wide battery just waiting to help out. The Dutch city of Utrecht is about to pioneer a clever way to kickstart two-way charging.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, … | Continue reading
For the first time, scientists have described a biochemical mechanism linking attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with the common but problematic compound Bisphenol A (BPA), which can leach into food and water from food and drink pac … | Continue reading
Organ transplants can save lives, but they’re plagued by long waiting lists and high chances of rejection. In a major step towards creating new organs on demand, Stanford scientists have now received a contract and funding for experiments to 3D print human hearts and implant them … | Continue reading
The small blade on a Swiss Army knife can never replace a full-size fixed blade for critical tasks in the wild. On the other hand, a fixed-blade knife isn't the tool for starting a fire on its own or delicately removing a tick embedded in your neck. Official Swiss Army maker Vict … | Continue reading
A recent NATO exercise in the waters off the coast of Portugal saw naval drones reach a new level. As part of the exercise, a BAE Systems/Malloy Aeronautics T-600 heavy lift Uncrewed Air System (UAS) air launched an inert Sting Ray training torpedo.Continue ReadingCategory: Milit … | Continue reading
Some cyclists (or other outdoorsy types) like having access to a lot of information, which is often spread out between different devices. The Lawk One AR Glasses, however, put everything together in one place.Continue ReadingCategory: Outdoors, LifestyleTags: Smart Glasses, Augme … | Continue reading
Nobody likes getting needles, but unfortunately there are some medications that can only be administered via injection. That could be about to change, however, thanks to the invention of a suction cup that you stick in your mouth.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: ET … | Continue reading
Fezzari Bicycles has offered a first look at an upcoming carbon fat-tire ebike called the Explorer Peak that's designed to provide motor assist when attacking everything "from bustling urban streets to sandy beaches and even snow-covered trails."Continue ReadingCategory: Bicycles … | Continue reading
We first got our hands on Lava Music's oddball carbon-fiber Me 2 smart guitar back in 2021, which was followed by a new model later that year. Now the company has announced the fourth generation, adding a spruce option plus a more affordable Play flavor.Continue ReadingCategory: … | Continue reading
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has revealed plans for a new cultural district in China. The project will be arranged around a large cultural center that showcases the firm's trademark style and will be defined by an eye-catching series of curving layered roofs that reference the loc … | Continue reading
As technology continues to offer new capabilities, the old adage that “there is always a better way” is becoming increasingly true, and sometimes it just requires a multi-disciplinary approach to a problem to transform the effectiveness of the solution. Humanitaria’s first invent … | Continue reading
Earlier this month, Dasung launched a desktop monitor sporting color E Ink technology for reduced eye strain while working. Now Bigme has gone one better by combining monitor and computer for the B251 all-in-one Windows PC.Continue ReadingCategory: Computers, TechnologyTags: E-In … | Continue reading
Researchers have called for a review of current recommendations for treatment of hand osteoarthritis, after a broad study revealed that injections were shown to be as effective as a placebo in relieving pain. Looking at 72 studies involving 7,609 participants, with 60 (5,246 part … | Continue reading
Electric vehicle retromodder Everrati has chosen to take a perfectly good, ready-for-anything Land Rover and retrofit it into a glorified golf cart for shuttling fraction-percenters around the marina and beyond. The "Shore Tender" is a fully electrified Defender designed to ride … | Continue reading
Earlier this year we heard about the ear-EEG, a special earbud that reads electrical activity in the brain. Well, scientists have now developed add-on sensors that allow regular earbuds to do so, and to analyze sweat to boot.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle … | Continue reading
The US Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a US$705 million contract to develop an upgradable next-generation air-to-ground missile called the Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW). The missile is designed to take on fast-moving targets behind enemy lines.Continue ReadingCategory: Mil … | Continue reading
When it comes to air travel, wheelchair users definitely face some challenges. That's where the Revolve Air wheelchair comes in, as it can be folded up – wheels and all – to qualify as carry-on baggage.Continue ReadingCategory: Good Thinking, LifestyleTags: Wheelchairs, Revolve F … | Continue reading
There are numerous situations in which a robot doesn't need to move quickly, but it does need to cover long distances without having to recharge its batteries. The minuscule energy-harvesting MilliMobile robot was designed for just such scenarios.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotic … | Continue reading
Seattle-based outdoor retailer REI has revealed the first in-house electric mountain bike under its Co-op Cycles brand. Essentially a motor-packing version of its DRT 3.1 mountain bike, the eMTB taps into Bosch power, comes with full squish and is available in five frame sizes.Co … | Continue reading
Concrete is a huge contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions, and Concrete Masonry Units (aka cinder blocks or breeze blocks) make up a significant part of this. However, a new project by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), in collaboration with Prometheus Materials, showcases an alte … | Continue reading
The latest project from music education company Loog Guitars isn't a three-stringed Gibson classic to go with its pint-sized Fender Strat or Tele electrics, but a 37-key portable piano for kids of all ages.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, TechnologyTags: Kickstarter, Piano, Learn … | Continue reading
If you've ever wanted to stay in a hovel that's home to an antisocial green ogre – and, let's face it, who hasn't? – now might finally be your chance. Airbnb has recreated the swampy home from the Shrek movies in the Scottish Highlands.Continue ReadingCategory: Architecture, Life … | Continue reading
The last generation of the popular fruity board for tinkerers landed in 2021, though its creators did double the system memory the following year. Now the Raspberry Pi 5 has launched rocking in-house silicon for much-improved performance.Continue ReadingCategory: Computers, Techn … | Continue reading
Zero-emissions long-distance aviation is absolutely possible... Provided you're not in a hurry. Solar Airship One will take 20 days to fly all the way around the equator, some 40,000 km (~25,000 miles), in a single zero-emissions hop.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportT … | Continue reading
A new study has found that during exercise, the vagus nerve, essential to the body’s ‘rest and digest’ response, has a more important role in heart function than we thought. The findings could be useful for treating diseases like heart failure, which can cause exercise intoleranc … | Continue reading
Some 465 million years since this marine scavenger was caught unawares by an approaching deadly mud current that would bury it alive, it had spent its last hours enjoying a large, varied seafood menu that has, until now, not been pictured in such detail in preserved fossils of it … | Continue reading
For the first time, researchers have identified the genetic mechanism underlying the protective role zinc has for type 2 diabetes and the fatty liver disease associated with the condition. The findings advance our understanding of metabolism and open the door to developing a nove … | Continue reading
Play is an important part of animal behavior, helping diverse species form social structures and bonds, develop cognitive function and enhance physical abilities. Yet human understanding of how other animals play is not well understood. Now, scientists have found that a baleen wh … | Continue reading
Callboats has become the first company in the world to offer autonomous water taxi rides between the Finnish city of Helsinki and a nearby archipelago. These solar-charged electric boats aim to drastically cut prices and address a captain shortage.Continue ReadingCategory: Marine … | Continue reading
Antimatter has intrigued and confounded physicists for almost a century, and the effect of gravity on antimatter has been a point of disagreement. New research may have settled the debate by finding that antihydrogen atoms, the antimatter counterpart of hydrogen, are affected by … | Continue reading
At this week's German National Aviation Conference in Hamburg, Airbus Helicopters took the wraps off its PioneerLab flying helicopter laboratory based on the company's twin-engine H145 platform.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: Airbus, Helicopters | Continue reading
When you're out on the sea, the more ocean-top views, the better. That appears to be the thinking behind the all-new "This Is It" yacht from Tecnomar. The boatbuilder that has previously found itself interspersing glass and Lamborghini-inspired bodywork has now gone to the extrem … | Continue reading
The titanium multi-tools continue to run thick and fast on Kickstarter, with the latest offering being a little something called the Prytium. It packs in over a dozen tools, including a glow-in-the-dark light that for once is not radioactive.Continue ReadingCategory: Outdoors, Li … | Continue reading
The spotted-wing drosophila is a type of fruit fly that can destroy berry crops if not killed by the liberal use of insecticides. According to a new study, the smell of a crop-damaging fungus could provide an eco-friendly alternative to such toxic chemicals.Continue ReadingCatego … | Continue reading
While there are now a ton of high-tech bike headlights on the market, most of them are pretty similar to one another. The Guard X stands out, however, with features like an anti-theft alarm, changeable light colors, and a maximum output of 4,000 lumens.Continue ReadingCategory: B … | Continue reading