Asthma drug staves off food allergies in up to 68% of patients

Omalizumab, currently used to treat asthma, has been shown to substantially reduce the risk of potentially life-threatening reactions in people aged one and older with multiple common food allergies, including peanuts, following accidental exposure. While not a cure, the now FDA- … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Alpaca MPV camper brings a mini-camping spin to US Sprinter RV market

The automotive market has left Caravan Outfitter with zero mini-camper van platforms, after discontinuing the Nissan NV200, Mercedes Metris and Ford Transit Connect. But the Washington company isn't complaining, turning those extra-sour lemons into delicious Mercedes-Benz Sprinte … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Who is buying all the Kawasaki Mach IV Widowmakers?

Two-stroke streetbikes have never sold well at auction – but in the last few weeks, something strange has been happening. Kawasaki's Mach IV H2, the notorious 750cc "Widowmaker," is setting record prices after a flurry of sales to a single buyer.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcyc … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Wearable face sensors add to the evolution of tech that "gets" us

If humanoid robots are ever going to fully integrate in society, they're going to need to get good at reading our emotional states and responding appropriately. A new wearable from researchers in Korea could help them do just that.Continue ReadingCategory: Wearables, TechnologyTa … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

174-hp electric jet ski packs instant boost and 1-hour rapid charging

A jet ski The Batman would ride – that's how Finnish startup Viva Electric Jets describes its debut product of the same name. It's not much of an exaggeration, either, as the unique angular styling does indeed look like something that could emerge from the Batcave ... at least if … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Italian exoskeleton gets disabled users walking and standing

A new robotic exoskeleton could allow people who have lost the use of their legs to stand up and even walk. It may also help get them walking unaided again, by guiding their movements and holding them up as they take part in rehabilitative therapy.Continue ReadingCategory: Roboti … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Mosquito-spreading drones could slash the spread of disease

If you're trying to disperse 300,000 disease-fighting mosquitos per day, using a drone may well be your best bet for doing so. The technology has already been tested in Brazil, where it showed very promising results.Continue ReadingCategory: Drones, TechnologyTags: Mosquito, Mala … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

MIT takes a hands-on approach to tactile learning

Some folks prefer to get a grip on things to better understand concepts. Researchers have developed smart gloves for tactile learners that use haptic feedback and AI to teach users new skills, fast-track precision training and control robots remotely.Continue ReadingCategory: Wea … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Google's new HQ goes off the rails for big CO2 savings

Google has commissioned the ambitious transformation of a 1930s rail terminal into a new headquarters in New York City. Named St. John's Terminal, the building has been massively upgraded, including the addition of high-tech sustainability features and around 1.5 acres (0.6 hecta … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Potato chip breakthrough crunches cancer risk for healthier snack

In what many of us would consider a true public service to one of the world's best food groups, scientists have flicked the switch on a mechanism that causes cold-stored potatoes to produce the carcinogen acrylamide. Growing these genetically tinkered potatoes could eradicate kno … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Using your nose to regenerate knees eroded by osteoarthritis

Having already demonstrated that a small amount of cartilage taken from the nose can be used to repair injured knees, researchers will soon commence a clinical trial to investigate whether the technique can be used to regenerate joints that have been severely worn down by osteoar … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Stubborn liver cancer may have met its match in century-old TB vaccine

A single injection of the 102-year-old tuberculosis vaccine, BCG, has proven effective at triggering an immune response in mice and shrank their liver cancer tumors, according to research by UC Davis Health. The findings suggest that BCG might be an alternative way of treating th … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Type 2 stamps classic VW camper-inspired steel on new pop-top trailer

You won't find a new Volkswagen pop-up camper van on the US market, but you can find a VW-inspired pop-up camping trailer. In fact, you've had that option for over a decade, as Dub Box USA began offering just such an adorable trailer back in 2012 and soon expanded with additional … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Software tweak doubles computer processing speed, halves energy use

Existing processors in PCs, smartphones and other devices can be supercharged for enormous power and efficiency gains using a new parallel processing software framework designed to eliminate bottlenecks and use multiple chips at once.Continue ReadingCategory: Computers, Technolog … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

US returns to Moon after half a century with nail-biter landing

The United States has returned to the Moon after over 50 years. At 6:24 pm EST, the robotic Odysseus touched down autonomously on the lunar surface, followed by a tense 13-minute gap as radio communications were established with mission control.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, Sc … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Bloodborne pathogens quickly ID'd by melting their DNA

A new technique, which involves melting bacterial DNA found in blood samples, could deliver diagnoses of potentially fatal infections faster than ever before. Results may be obtained in a few hours, instead of days.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Bacteria, Blood, … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Review: Toyota's all-electric bZ4X suffers from an identity crisis

As Toyota’s first serious foray into electric vehicles, most of us expected the bZ4X to be ... well, something else. Instead, what we got was a confusingly-named station wagon crossover with a puzzling array of capabilities under a tall price tag.Continue ReadingCategory: Automot … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Self-supporting hammock stand pops up in under 60 seconds

Even if you've got less than a minute to spare, that's still enough time to set up this hammock stand. That's the claim made by Wyoming-based outdoor gear company Yobogear regarding its new Turtlebug stand, which is currently on Kickstarter.Continue ReadingCategory: Outdoors, Lif … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Xiaomi launches Leica camera masquerading as a smartphone

Xiaomi's latest flagship handset has launched in China ahead of an expected Mobile World Congress appearance in Barcelona next week. The 14 Ultra's headline feature is a Leica main camera with a new Sony 1-inch sensor.Continue ReadingCategory: Mobile Technology, TechnologyTags: X … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

45-ft-long, quad-axle behemoth puts a spacious family home on wheels

Measuring 45-ft (13.7-m)-long, the Tellico is the largest home on wheels we've seen to date. This sizable family residence offers a remarkably spacious apartment-like interior, as well as a substantial porch outside.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, LifestyleTags: Building a … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Ingenious Neanderthals had glue as part of their prehistoric tool kits

Neanderthals were gluing handles onto their tools over 100,000 years ago, possibly making the species even smarter than previously thought. So says a new study that discovered the use of adhesives on ancient stone tools that were previously overlooked.Continue ReadingCategory: Sc … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Radioactive ‘fruit sugar’ lights up cancer and inflammation

A radioactive form of fructose, a natural sugar found in fruit, given to mice lit up areas of cancer and inflammation on a diagnostic medical scan. The researchers say the approach makes diseases easier to spot than current techniques and opens the door to new avenues of early de … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Iconic BT Tower undergoing radical transformation into luxury hotel

London's 177-m (581-ft)-tall BT Tower has been a lot of things over the years – a telecommunications tower, a revolving restaurant, and even the target of a bombing attack. It's now set to begin a new chapter as a luxury hotel.Continue ReadingCategory: Architecture, LifestyleTags … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Yo, cuz! Jawless sea creatures share brain development with us

The formation of a part of the human brain responsible for regulating vital functions is triggered in an identical way in the sea lamprey, a new study has found. The discovery suggests that we’re related to these primitive creatures.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

How to watch the US Moon landing live

Want to watch as the US has another go on Thursday at the first private Moon landing? NASA and Intuitive Machines have teamed up with a live feed as the robotic lander Odysseus is scheduled to touch down near the lunar south pole at 5.30pm EST.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, Sci … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Broad-spectrum antivenom takes the bite out of many killer snakes

Scientists have made a synthetic antibody that can prevent paralysis and death inflicted by the venom of elapids, a large family of mostly deadly snakes found around the world. The discovery has us slithering ever closer to developing a single, universal antivenom that could prot … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Oru motorizes origami kayaks with portable electric outboard

Oru Kayak has long offered some of the market's most compact, conveniently portable watercraft. Now the company is expanding the appeal of its lineup by pairing its vessels with an equally compact, portable electric drive system. Teaming up with the folks at Bixpy, it's developed … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Trillions of tons of buried hydrogen: Clean energy gold rush begins

There's enough natural hydrogen trapped underground to meet all projected demands for hundreds of years. An unpublished report by the US Geological Survey identifies it as a new primary resource, and fires the starter pistol on a new gold rush.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, Sc … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Super-simple Skyryse One helicopter is flown via one stick and two screens

How hard could it be to fly a helicopter if the controls consisted of just one stick and two touchscreens? That's exactly what the case is with the recently announced Skyryse One, which could be yours for just shy of $2 million.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: H … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Transformable seat quickly goes from armchair to loveseat to sofa

The Expandy is a single piece of furniture that can be expanded width-wise to serve three purposes. Simply by pulling on it from one end, users are able to convert it from an armchair to a loveseat to a sofa.Continue ReadingCategory: Around The Home, LifestyleTags: Sofas, Chair, … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

200-mile adventure cargo ebike takes hauling beyond city limits

Combining aspects of a mountain bike, trekking bike and cargo bike, Tern has designed an all-weather, all-terrain pedal-assist gear hauler called the Orox that taps into Bosch power and is dual-battery ready for extended trips into the wild.Continue ReadingCategory: Bicycles, Tra … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Apple Vision Pro is about to enable fully immersive 3D music production

Producing music these days can be something of a flat experience, undertaken using powerful software running on a computer. With the sales launch of the Apple Vision Pro, DAW maker Hit'n'Mix is planning to immerse musicians in their creations.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, Tech … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Striking "lost" bird species found and featured in first-known photo

No-one has seen the Yellow-crested Helmetshrike for about 20 years. That changed when researchers embarked on a six-week expedition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and captured the dramatic-looking yellow-topped bird in its first-known photo.Continue ReadingCategory: Scie … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

What happens when you go off weight-loss drugs?

Next-gen anti-obesity drugs like injectable liraglutide, sold as Saxenda, deliver impressive results in the first 12 months. New research looks into what happens to those results once treatment stops.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & Wellbeing, LifestyleTags: GLP1, Obesity, Diet … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Bespoke brain cell replacements, grown to order

Damaged brain tissue can possibly be re-grown using a new method that lets researchers guide stem cells into exactly the type of brain cells they need for a particular spot. They're targeting new treatments for stroke, traumatic brain injury and MS.Continue ReadingCategory: Scien … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

World's tallest 3D-printed building rises high in the Swiss Alps

What's being hailed as the world's tallest 3D-printed building is being readied for assembly in a remote Swiss village. The White Tower from researchers at ETH Zurich will be formed from over a hundred columns, with a performance space sat on top.Continue ReadingCategory: Archite … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Vision complements e-outboards with "unsinkable" fully recyclable boat

We previously knew Vision Marine Technologies primarily as the Quebecois company that debuted the once-most powerful electric outboard in the world, the propulsion behind one of the world's fastest, most hellacious e-boats. At this year's Miami boat show, Vision pulled the thrott … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

The invention of the decimal dot that changed mathematics forever

Historians have discovered what may be the world's first decimal point, in an ancient manuscript written 150 years before its next known appearance. There have been many ways to split integers, but this little dot has proven uniquely powerful.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Year-long nuclear reactor weld now takes less than a day

The building of Small Modular Reactors (SMR) shifts into high gear as UK company Sheffield Forgemasters welds a full-size nuclear reactor vessel in under 24 hours, instead of the usual 12 months.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, ScienceTags: Nuclear, Welding, Industrial design, B … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

ADHD may have had evolutionary benefits

While current diagnostic definitions of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are relatively new, the general condition has been identified by clinicians under a variety of names for centuries. Recent genetic studies have revealed the condition to be highly heritable, m … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Brightest object in the universe swallows a Sun every day

You’d assume that the brightest object in the known universe would be a pretty easy thing to discover, but astronomers have only just spotted it. This overlooked show-off is a supermassive black hole with the mass of 17 billion Suns, and counting – it swallows another Suns’ worth … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

New 3D-printing ink changes color for different parts of one print job

Scientists have created a 3D-printing media that can take on different colors in different parts of a single print job. The secret lies in utilizing ultraviolet light to selectively alter the surface structure of the material as it's being dispensed.Continue ReadingCategory: 3D P … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

PhotoCube PD+ promises fast and simple smartphone-to-microSD backups

If you lose your smartphone, you definitely don't want to lose all the photos and other files stored on it. That's why it's so important to perform backups, and the PhotoCube PD+ offers a particularly simple means of doing so.Continue ReadingCategory: Mobile Technology, Technolog … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Former SpaceX engineers launch high-torque electric wakeboat

Electric boat-maker Arc recently made the final delivery of its limited-edition One model, and is aiming its second build at the mass market. The Arc Sport is designed to make waves, allowing boarders to get tricky in its wake.Continue ReadingCategory: Marine, TransportTags: Elec … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Next-level AI engine comes top in LLM speed showdown

Responses to AI chat prompts not snappy enough? California-based generative AI company Groq has a super quick solution in its LPU Inference Engine, which has recently outperformed all contenders in public benchmarks.Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: Artificial Intelligenc … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Nanopore material stores 67% more hydrogen than solid hydrogen itself

A nanoporous material that holds hydrogen at twice the density of cryogenic liquid H2 could address the challenges of large-scale liquid and gas storage that have held this clean fuel back.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, ScienceTags: Hydrogen, Hydrogen-powered, Clean Energy, UN … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Tamper-proof glueprints distinguish real from fake at over 99% accuracy

ID verification tags aren’t much use if someone can just peel them off and stick them to a fake product. MIT scientists have now designed ID tags that use the glue itself as a kind of fingerprint, and will scramble the barcode if someone peels it off.Continue ReadingCategory: Tec … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 9 months ago

Quad-storage method writes data to a single atom in four different ways

You can cram much more quantum processing power into a given space if you use four different ways to store data on a single atom, according to new research. The method unlocks more powerful quantum computers that are easier to control.Continue ReadingCategory: Computers, Technolo … | Continue reading


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