Dubai already boasts the world's tallest skyscraper, with the world's tallest residential tower on the way too. Now local firm Urb envisions transforming its shores with the world's largest coastal regeneration project. The ambitious development would involve planting over 100 mi … | Continue reading
The "tough mutt" phenomenon is well known among dog owners. The thinking goes that a dog with one or more breeds mixed into its genetic recipe is going to be healthier and more able to fight off a range of health woes than purebred dogs, which sometimes have a more precious reput … | Continue reading
Shift Robotics began as a Carnegie Mellon spin-off, its first product was funded by Kickstarter so do not dismiss them as just another set of strap-on electric roller skates. Continue Reading Category: Urban Transport, Transport Tags: Moonwalker, Carnegie Mellon, Mobility, Walk, … | Continue reading
You can stop skulking around labs trying to get bitten by radioactive spiders – a new breakthrough could make it easier than ever to get Spider-Man’s wall-crawling powers. Scientists in Singapore have created a strong and reusable adhesive out of a shape-memory polymer, sticking … | Continue reading
Scientists have developed a promising new drug that could prevent and even reverse the onset of type 1 diabetes. The experimental monoclonal antibody drug acts like a shield to protect insulin-producing cells from damage, even extending lifespan in some cases. Continue Reading Ca … | Continue reading
DARPA has finally unveiled more of its mysterious Manta Ray robotic sub, with impressive new images of the prototype Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle (UUV) undergoing its first sea trials off the coast of Southern California. Continue Reading Category: Military, Technology Tags: DARPA … | Continue reading
RheEnergise's HD Hydro 500 kW demonstrator will soon begin construction at mining company Sibelco's facility in Cornwood outside Plymouth in Devon, UK. Continue Reading Category: Energy, Science Tags: Hydroelectric, Renewable Energy, Grid-Level Energy Storage | Continue reading
What do you get when you cross the eco-friendliness and fitness value of an ebike with the stability and weather protection of a small car? Well, you get an e-quadracycle, such as the funky new Orion and Ilos from Greek startup Gloubos. Continue Reading Category: Urban Transport, … | Continue reading
Clipless bicycle shoes are great for cycling, but not a whole lot else. German company ClipClap looks to offer everyday cyclists a way of getting those clipless cleats off ASAP, a welcome alternative from hobbling around town in uncomfortable bike shoes. Its wearable adapters cli … | Continue reading
If you're looking for a hands-free wearable electric boost while snorkeling or scuba diving, the Jetdive Pro should definitely fit the bill. It's not the first product of its kind, but it is claimed to be the best in several key ways. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors, Lifestyl … | Continue reading
Budget-friendly e-mobility company Engwe has rolled out a fat-tire folding adventure ebike with full suspension that can be hauled to the foot of the hills in the SUV's trunk, before unfolding and tapping into the Engine Pro 2.0's 1,200 watts of peak motor grunt. Continue Reading … | Continue reading
Luxury high-rises are the hottest thing in automotive design right now, with Aston Martin, Bugatti and Mercedes-Benz all racing to turn their enviable brand recognition into real estate big bucks. One of the most anticipated of these projects, an extraordinary sail-shaped skyscra … | Continue reading
Even brief periods of anger caused by triggering memories can negatively impact our blood vessels' ability to relax. That's the finding of a new study that could have implications on how we look at heart attack and stroke risk. Continue Reading Category: Health & Wellbeing, Lifes … | Continue reading
We were less than charitable when the 850-hp, V10 Engler Superquad was first introduced in 2019. When the 2023 version was introduced with an extra 250 hp, we seriously considered where it might rank among a murderer's row of the most terrifying vehicles ever built. Now there’s a … | Continue reading
Screening callers of crisis or suicide helplines for their current level of suicide risk is crucial to detecting and preventing suicide. Continue Reading Category: Technology Tags: Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Voice, Concordia University | Continue reading
What would you ask if you found yourself sitting across the screen from an interactive, digital version of... Well, yourself? Continue Reading Category: Technology Tags: GPT, Artificial Intelligence, LLM (Large Language Model), Video | Continue reading
A striking new study led by researchers from the University of Nebraska has found unusually high levels of lead and uranium in urine samples from teenagers who frequently use e-cigarettes. But several scientists, while careful to say not vaping is still the safest option, have so … | Continue reading
Although wooly mammoths are long gone, their recovered ivory lives on as a legal alternative to banned elephant ivory. Scientists can now use lasers to differentiate between the two materials, hopefully reducing the revenue stream for poachers. Continue Reading | Continue reading
A simple product built to completely reorganize your truck camping experience, the Pack Rack will debut as a multifunctional piece of indoor/outdoor camping furniture. It rides in a pickup truck bed as an adjustable-height shelf for holding gear and cargo, turning what might othe … | Continue reading
What makes a compact titanium multitool stand out from the kazillion others that are on Kickstarter at any given moment? Well, an adjustable wrench is a definitely a rare feature, and that's just one of the things you'll find on the Ti EDC Wrench. Continue Reading Category: Good … | Continue reading
Chinese automotive giant Chery spawned the Exeed luxury sports brand in 2017 and the Exeed E08 "concept MPV" shown at Auto China last week, has done just that. The Exeed 08 has used automation at six key points to vastly increase the usability of the vehicle and the optimisation … | Continue reading
Scientists have demonstrated a creative solution to plastic pollution, one of our most pressing environmental problems. Plastic was embedded with spores of plastic-eating bacteria that are activated when dumped in landfill, biodegrading 90% of the material in five months. Weirder … | Continue reading
Dragon Tiny Homes' Element and Element 20 are very inexpensive options for downsizing, but aren't practical for more than one or two people. The firm's recent Avalon, however, has an increased but still relatively affordable price tag and squeezes an impressive three bedrooms int … | Continue reading
Carbon-framed ebikes can cost a pretty penny, but the latest lightweight city model from Fiido currently comes in at well under $2k, has the stealthy look of a regular bike and boasts a low-maintenance Gates carbon belt drive. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles, Transport Tags: … | Continue reading
It's almost time for the 2024 Summer Olympics to begin. 100 years after it last hosted the games, Paris is once again home to the iconic sporting event and just one large-scale permanent building has been created for the occasion: an aquatic sports center that's defined by an stu … | Continue reading
Sanctuary AI is one of the world's leading humanoid robotics companies. Its Phoenix robot, now in its seventh generation, has dropped our jaws several times in the last few months alone, demonstrating a remarkable pace of learning and a fluidity and confidence of autonomous motio … | Continue reading
While we don't like to talk ill of the dead, new physiological analysis has found that the king of the dinosaurs was not so smart after all. It upends previous research that last year likened the brain and neuronal composition of the Tyrannosaurus rex to that of a primate. Contin … | Continue reading
AF, or AFib, and its close medical cousin, atrial flutter, are associated with complications such as stroke, heart failure, and heart attack. While there’s an understandable focus on treating these conditions to prevent acute complications, less research has looked at what’s happ … | Continue reading
After more than a decade of delays and development, Boeing's Starliner crewed spacecraft is scheduled to launch. Given the history of the craft and the company's recent scandals, it's a nail-biter – so let's recap CST-100 Starliner. Continue Reading Category: Space, Science Tags: … | Continue reading
There’s a global shortage of blood supplies needed for life-saving transfusions due to factors that include an aging population with a higher demand for it and a lack of volunteer donors. However, even if there was an ample blood supply, it’s not as simple as just giving blood wh … | Continue reading
A new type of printed circuit board (PCB) could drastically reduce the amount of electronic waste that ends up in landfills. Although most PCBs are difficult to recycle, such is not the case with this one, which partially turns into a reusable jelly when necessary. Continue Readi … | Continue reading
Could you throw a lifebuoy all the way out to a distressed swimmer located one kilometer away? Nope, you couldn't … but your could fly one out to them, in the form of the TY-3R Flying Lifebuoy drone. Continue Reading Category: Drones, Technology Tags: Lifeguards, Swimming, Rescue | Continue reading
On the road to delivering 100 miles of EV range in five minutes by the end of 2024, tech firm StoreDot has installed its extreme fast charging cells in a Polestar 5 prototype, and zapped the 77-kWh pack to 80% capacity in 10 minutes. Continue Reading Category: Automotive, Transpo … | Continue reading
Dubai already hosts the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, and it has now been revealed that it will soon boast bragging rights for the world's tallest residential skyscraper too. Currently under construction in the city's Marina district, the supertall will feature 122 … | Continue reading
We've seen some impressive nature-inspired flying bots from the creative minds at Festo's Bionic Learning Network over the years, but the autonomous BionicBee is not only the smallest so far but also the first capable of swarming. Continue Reading Category: Robotics, Technology T … | Continue reading
The "Study Pavilion" has now been built at the Technical University Braunschweig in Germany, and the holistic modular design and construction of the reconfigurable building offers a fascinating glimpse into a potential future for scalable, reconfigurable buildings not just in pla … | Continue reading
The six-foot-tall raptors in the Jurassic Park movies were terrifying enough, but now scientists have described a giant new raptor species whose legs alone were that tall. Continue Reading Category: Biology, Science Tags: Dinosaurs, University of Queensland, Fossils, Animals, Ani … | Continue reading
The British Army has rolled out the prototypes of its Challenger 3 main battle tank, which are undergoing their first live-fire tests in Germany. The upgraded tank not only has a deadlier gun, but can destroy incoming anti-tank rounds in flight. Continue Reading Category: Militar … | Continue reading
With the rise of COVID-19, the world learnt how being in close quarters with another person or people can increase the risk of infection with the virus. New research led by the University of Bristol in the UK has provided an answer to the question of how and why airborne respirat … | Continue reading
The original Skycamp from iKamper was a true innovator in a now-overcrowded rooftop tent (RTT) market. IKamper has built out the Skycamp brand over the years, adding smaller, lighter models and improving upon existing designs. It is now spinning off the Skycamp DLX sub-line. That … | Continue reading
Last year, Nitecore put a new emphasis on "flat light" with its EDC27. And while the compact torch isn't the only flashlight to take on a slim, remote control-like form, it does offer one of the best all-around light-to-slimness ratios we've seen on the market. After a little LED … | Continue reading
Fish farming may be getting much more eco-friendly, courtesy of soybean processing wastewater. Microbes in the liquid have been used to produce proteins that could replace the fishmeal which is currently fed to farmed fish. Continue Reading Category: Environment, Science Tags: Na … | Continue reading
The rapid progress of humanoid robot development is nothing short of astounding. Less than 12 months after introducing its 6th-gen general-purpose humanoid, Canada's Sanctuary AI has pulled back the curtains on the next iteration of Phoenix. Continue Reading Category: Robotics, T … | Continue reading
One of the most stunning concept cars the world has ever seen was shown for the first time at Auto Shanghai this week, when MG took the wraps the EXE181 concept – an aerodynamic electric hypercar with one of the best drag coefficients ever seen in any registerable, road-going veh … | Continue reading
While it seems that another humanoid robot is being released every week, we've yet to see one move as quickly or with as much precision as the model just released by Chinese company, Astribot. We dare you to not be impressed. Continue Reading Category: Robotics, Technology Tags: … | Continue reading
Many asteroids can be traced back to their parent body – the planet or moon they broke off from. But for the first time, scientists now claim to have traced the origins of an asteroid back to the specific crater it was birthed from. Continue Reading Category: Space, Science Tags: … | Continue reading
One of the biggest challenges researchers face is making injectable medicines into versions that can be taken orally. Oral medications usually fail because they can’t withstand the harsh environment of the gut, which leads to poor bioavailability - a drug’s ability to be absorbed … | Continue reading
We’ve always said that if one of these came up at the right time, it would become the world’s first million dollar motorcycle. Well, it’s gonna happen next month and … this will be worth watching. Continue Reading Category: Motorcycles, Transport Tags: Ducati, Motorcycle, Auction | Continue reading