Current evidence suggests many organisms will struggle to keep pace with a changing climate on Earth. However, unlucky for humans, some pathogens will not just adapt but thrive, including, as this new study suggests, the bugs that cause the common diarrhea illness campylobacterio … | Continue reading
Data from ESA's Mars Express indicates that there may be subterranean ice deposits at the Martian equator that are up to 2.3 miles (3.7 km) thick. With enough water to fill the Red Sea, this could be a tremendous resource for future Mars colonies.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, … | Continue reading
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a multifaceted approach that’s recommended as a first-line treatment for chronic insomnia. A new study looked at the components of CBT to determine which ones are most effective for improving sleep, finding that relaxation techniques may pote … | Continue reading
Genetic and isotopic analyses have pieced together a remarkable narrative of a 20-year-old female woolly mammoth, detailing her health, social status and travels – even though her story is more than 14,000 years old. It offers new insight into mammoth behavior and clues as to how … | Continue reading
America's first attempt to land on the Moon in 52 years came to a fiery end today as the privately owned and operated Peregrine 1 spacecraft entered the Earth's atmosphere and burned up at 3:59 pm EST somewhere over the South Pacific.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: … | Continue reading
When it comes to tasks like the exploration of unstructured environments, traditional robots may be stymied by obstacles such as uncrossable gaps. That's where the FiloBot comes in, as it grows like a self-supporting vine.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTags: Istitu … | Continue reading
Although DJI is probably the best-known manufacturer of consumer and cinematography drones, it hasn't ventured into the world of delivery drones … until last week, that is. The company's recently unveiled FlyCart 30 (FC30) is now set to join the growing ranks of package-toting mu … | Continue reading
Water striders are fascinating to watch, as they scoot across the water while supported by surface tension. Scientists have now built a tiny robotic version of the insect, which utilizes a record-breaking actuator to get a move on.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTag … | Continue reading
About 10,000 years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers were hanging out in what is now south-western Sweden chewing pieces of birch tar. New analysis of that substance reveals that they may have had very modern dental issues.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: Archeology, Stockho … | Continue reading
Back in 2012, Vox Amplification looked to its design history to launch a pair of travel guitars based on the classic 1960s Phantom and Teardrop shapes. With NAMM just around the corner, the company has refined the concept for the feature-packed APC-1.Continue ReadingCategory: Mus … | Continue reading
Described as the world's largest kinetic art sculpture by New York City-based designer Breakfast, the Pearl is a remarkably intricate art installation that draws inspiration from the sea and consists of thousands of moving tiles.Continue ReadingCategory: LifestyleTags: Art, Kinet … | Continue reading
Samsung has announced its latest flagship handsets overnight, the S24 series, while also revealing a bunch of AI-powered tools designed to help users with photos and videos, communication, online search and more.Continue ReadingCategory: Mobile Technology, TechnologyTags: Samsung … | Continue reading
Figure has signed its first commercial deal, and is sending its general-purpose humanoid robots off to start real-world work at BMW's manufacturing plant in South Carolina. Founder and CEO Brett Adcock talks us through this rubber-meets-road moment.Continue ReadingCategory: Robot … | Continue reading
Researchers have developed contact lenses with embedded sensors that measure the pressure inside the eye and send the information to an ophthalmologist for evaluation. It’s hoped that the lens will lead to the early diagnosis of glaucoma, which can lead to irreversible vision los … | Continue reading
Researchers have chanced upon a bacteria naturally present in the gut of mosquitoes that inhibits the growth of a parasite that causes the deadliest form of malaria. Unlikely to produce resistance, the bacteria could be easily introduced in the field to complement existing malari … | Continue reading
Scientists have discovered a new contender in the quest to hack the human aging process, and it’s a little-studied protein within a cell structure that also doesn’t get a lot of airtime in research despite being one of the first organelles identified more than a century ago.Conti … | Continue reading
Researchers have used a novel manufacturing technique to create a minimally invasive, customizable sensor that can wirelessly record deep brain activity down to a resolution of one or two neurons. The device has potential applications in a wide range of neurological conditions su … | Continue reading
German RV manufacturer Bürstner was all about inflation at last year's Düsseldorf Caravan Salon, showing two different inflatable RV concepts, including the Habiton micro-camper. For an encore, it's done away with the inflatable rooftop tent of the original Habiton, designing a m … | Continue reading
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