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KTM is kitting out a new motorcycle for the 2025 model year with a bunch of clever radar-guided safety features – including the ability to automatically squeeze the brakes to prevent a collision.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Yesterday, we got to see the winners of the 2024 Ocean Photographer awards. Today, we're taking to the opposite domain; the winners of the 2024 Bird Photographer of the Year awards have been announced.
The competition, which has been running since 2016, drew over 23,000 submissions, according to its organizers. Photographer of the Year is partnered with Birds on the Brink, a charity that gives grants to bird conservation efforts.
The winning images will be on display at various venues throughout the United Kingdom over the next year.
You can view the silver and bronze finalists, as well as honorable mentions for each category, on the Bird Photographer of the Year website. The site also shows the winners of the Portfolio and Conservation Awards, which are given for a series of images rather than a single image.
Bird Photographer of the Year Winner - Patricia Homonylo, Canada Image: Patricia HomonyloThe overall winner this year is Patricia Homonylo for her photo entitled When Worlds Collide. According to the organizers, the image depicts over 4,000 birds that died from running into windows in the city of Toronto.
Homonylo works with the Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP), a charity that aims to save birds who have run into windows after mistaking reflections for the sky. FLAP also works to raise awareness of the issue and ways to make homes safer for migratory birds.
The photo also won the Conservation (Single Image) category.
Young Bird Photographer of the Year - Andrés Luis Domínguez Blanco, Spain Image: Andrés Luis Domínguez Blanco, age 14Title: Perspective
Best Portrait - Alan Murphy, USAImage: Alan Murphy
Title: Winter Pink
Birds in the Environment - Kat Zhou, USA Image: Kat ZhouTitle: Immersion
Bird Behaviour - Nathaniel Peck, USA Image: Nathaniel PeckTitle: Scavenger
Birds in Flight - Hermis Haridas, India Image: Hermis HaridasTitle: Dawn's Whispers
Black and White - David Stowe, Australia Image: David StoweTitle: Hippo Impression
Urban Birds - Grzegorz Długosz, Poland Image: Grzegorz DługoszTitle: Treacherous Journey
Comedy Bird Photo - Nadia Haq, USA Image: Nadia HaqTitle: A Modern Dancer
15-17 years - Emil Wagner, Germany Image: Emil WagnerTitle: Human and Nature
11 and under - Julian Mendla, Germany Image: Julian MendlaTitle: Turbulent Fish Hunt
Video Award - Malkolm Boothroyd Image: Malkolm BoothroydOur slideshow tool doesn't support videos, but you can watch this year's winner, titled Into a World of Ice, below.
Though many of us carry our digital music library or streaming player around with us in the shape of our smartphones, enjoying high quality audio can be problematic. Fiio's KA15 DAC not only levels up the sound but also looks retro cool while doing so.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Audiophile, Portable, Hi-fi, Earphones, Headphones, Digital music
Major steps towards better, sustainable and affordable food production free of environmental challenges have been taken, with the "world's first farm to grow indoor, vertically farmed berries at scale" opening in Richmond, VA. It's backed by an international team of scientists that see this new phase of agriculture as a way to ease global food demands.
Category: Manufacturing, Technology
Tags: sustainable design, Food technology, Biotechnology, Environmental, Production
Aurora Flight Sciences has released a new video of its revolutionary wing-in-ground-effect Liberty Lifter concept aircraft that it's developing for DARPA. The aircraft uses ground effect to lift heavy loads without the need for an airstrip or ship port.
Tags: DARPA, Ground Effect Vehicle, Aircraft
A newly discovered cell that matures into two specialist cell types – an immune cell responsible for tissue repair and a cell that forms blood vessels – significantly boosts wound healing, according to new research. It could be a game-changer for people suffering from chronic, hard-to-heal wounds.
Category: Body & Mind
Tags: wound-healing, Stem Cells, progenitor-cells, south-australian-health-and-medical-research-institute
Blue Origin has conducted the first hot-fire static test of the fully integrated second stage of the company's New Glenn orbital rocket. The 15-second test took place on September 23, 2024 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Tags: Blue Origin, New Glenn, Rocket
Earlier this year, we took a look at a knife quite unlike any other in the Craighill Sidewinder. True to its name, the knife uses a curvaceous deployment action that's fascinating to watch. Trying to quickly build on its rapid success with the design, Craighill is now turning the Sidewinder into a family, introducing a smaller version that folds the same split-handled, slide-and-flip design into a package small enough to hang on a keychain or hide away in your jeans pocket-in-a-pocket.
Tags: Everyday Carry, Knife, Kickstarter, Keychains, Folding
If a multitool already includes an adjustable wrench, surgical steel blade, bit driver and pry bar, how do you make it even more useful? Well, in the case of the new Pichi X2S, you give it a fold-out saw.
Tags: Multitools, Titanium, Kickstarter
We're now one step closer to seeing tourists making balloon flights to the edge of outer space. Just last week, Florida company Space Perspective sent a balloon-lifted test capsule to the outer limits of our planet's atmosphere, followed by a successful splashdown landing.
Tags: Space Tourism, Balloon, Space Perspective
Steve Gantlett is on a mission: to find whoever misplaced an SD card full of bird pictures in Norfolk county, England. According to his post on X, formerly Twitter, the card has around 3,700 bird pictures taken in Iceland.
Gantlett posted his original in-search-of on Monday but followed up on Tuesday, saying that the person hasn't been found yet. If it belongs to you, or you know someone who went to Iceland in May and then was in the UK, it may be worth reaching out to Gantlett; he's @cleybirds on X.
If you don't have an account on that site, feel free to leave a comment here and we'll see what we can do. We'll be sure to update this story if the rightful owner is found.
Whether at the shopping mall or tasked with moving stuff around the office, you've likely had to deal with a cart with a wonky wheel at some point. Help could be on the way in the shape of a flying cart named the Palletrone.
Category: Technology
It's not often that we see something as humble as a former Aldi store get the starchitect treatment, but that's what's happening with the Museum for Papirkunst. Designed by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), it will totally transform the existing building, which hosts a paper museum, into a light-filled space defined by an eye-catching roof that resembles a colossal piece of paper draped over the building.
Category: Architecture, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, Museum, Bjarke Ingels Group, Renovation
Earlier this month, Oceanographic Magazine announced the winners of its 2024 Ocean Photographer of the Year awards. The outlet says the awards are meant to "shine a light on the wonder and fragility of our blue planet, and to celebrate the photographers giving it a voice."
According to the outlet, over 15,000 images were submitted for consideration. The finalists and honorable mentions for each category are on the Oceanographic website. The images selected will be shown in a gallery at the Australian National Maritime Museum beginning on November 28th, 2024.
The Ocean winner: Rafael Fernandez Caballero Image: Rafael Fernández CaballeroWinner of the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2024 award, Rafael Fernández Caballero, told Oceanographic that he shot the image during the Mexican sardine run in late 2023. He said "For years, I’ve visited the Mexican sardine run, always hoping to witness a whale feeding on a baitball," adding that "it’s not just about the image itself, but about the shared experience and the thrill of being in the right place at the right time."
The winning image depicts a Bryde’s whale opening its mouth to eat a school of fish.
Location: Baja California Sur, Mexico
Wildlife winner: Manuel Castellanos Raboso Image: Manuel Castellanos RabosoArtist statement: A triumphant mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish proudly displays its catch amidst a feeding frenzy.
Location: Baja California Sur, Mexico
Fine Art winner: Henley Spiers Image: Henley SpiersArtist statement: Born during the great mobula aggregations of spring, juvenile Munk's devil rays remain in the Sea of Cortez long after their parents have left, using the shallow bays of Espiritu Santo Island as a nursery.
Location: Baja California Sur, Mexico
Adventure winner: Tobias FriedrichImage: Tobias Friedrich
Artist statement: A scuba diver looks tiny swimming in front of a shipwreck.
Location: The Bahamas
Conservation (Impact) winner: Frederik Brogaard Image: Frederik BrogaardArtist statement: The second biggest whale, the fin whale, lies waiting for its turn to be butchered at a whaling plant in Iceland before getting sent to Japan.
Location: Iceland
Conservation (Hope) winner: Shane Gross Image: Shane GrossArtist statement: A green sea turtle is released by a researcher after being caught while trying to catch sharks.
Location: Seychelles
Human Connection: People & Planet Ocean winner: Zhang Xiang Image: Zhang XiangArtist statement: A traditional Chinese fisher makes their way across the beach as the sunset’s golden haze is reflected in the sand and water.
Location: Fujian, China
Young Photographer of the Year winner: Jacob Guy Image: Jacob GuyArtist statement: The algae octopus is an elusive creature.
Location: North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Ocean Portfolio winner: Shane Gross Image: Shane GrossArtist statement: Baby plainfin midshipman fish, still attached to their yolk sacs.
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Female Fifty Fathoms Award winner: Ipah Uid Lynn Image: Ipah Uid LynnArtist statement: A whale shark surrounded by a swirling school of fish.
Location: The Maldives
Move over, Moo Deng, there's a new superstar baby animal that's become a surprise viral sensation – a nine-month-old king penguin chick named Pesto whose species-defying growth spurt has made this big boy a worldwide hit.
Tags: Penguins, Zoo, Aquariums, Sea Life Melbourne
LiquidPiston is testing a 10-kW generator it's prototyped for the US military, which it claims is just a quarter of the size and weight of the current model the Army uses.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: LiquidPiston, Engine Technologies, Wankel, US Army
A technique originally developed to combat acid rain has the potential to pull an enormous amount of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere – while helping to deacidify oceans, restore rivers and boost biodiversity and fish populations.
Category: Environment, Science
Tags: Direct Air Carbon Capture, Climate Crisis, Carbon capture, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Ocean acidification, Ocean, River, Geoengineering
Placing defibrillator pads on the chest and back, rather than the usual method of putting two on the chest, increases the odds of surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by more than two-and-a-half times, according to a new study.
Category: Body & Mind
Tags: cardiac+arrest, Heart attack, defibrillator, Oregon Health and Science University
China's Nebula-1 reusable first-stage rocket booster took a bit of a tumble on September 22, 2024 when its nearly perfect high-altitude vertical flight ended when it got a bit dented as it crashed into the ground during the powered landing attempt.
Tags: China, Rocket, Flight Tests
Gut bacteria that have been disrupted in infancy can lead to greater aggression later in life, including causing changes to aggression-related genes, according to a new study. The findings warrant more research into the complex interplay between the gut, brain, and aggression.
Category: Body & Mind
Tags: Microbiome, Gut Bacteria, Genetics, Bar Ilan University
