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Inside Archer's bold plans for air taxi rides across NYC, SF, and LA

Santa Clara-based eVTOL maker Archer has its sights set on making air taxis a thing, like, really soon. It's just revealed plans for a network of vertiports from which its electric aircraft can take off and land in New York (NYC) – so you can beat street traffic and get around town in minutes.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

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World's first "nonstop beating heart" transplant is a medical breakthrough

For the first time, surgeons have successfully performed a remarkable new heart transplant in which the donor organ never skips a beat in the process, reducing the damage that can occur during such a complex operation. It ushers in a new era of more successful heart transplant surgery.

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Category: Heart Disease, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind

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The alarming health cost of living through a flood

In the world's largest study into the long-term health impacts of flooding, scientists have quantified the widespread and shocking ways in which this traumatic experience affects people. The results call for urgent action to address these potentially deadly issues.

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Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind

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95% of flu and herpes infection neutralized by chewing gum

Looking beyond jabs, sprays or tablets, scientists are thinking outside the box for delivering antiviral medication to prevent the spread of highly transmissible bugs. Their secret weapon? Chewing gum – but not any gum. This one is made from a rather fascinating bean.

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Category: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind

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Over 6,600 tons of space junk are floating around in Earth's orbit

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report that more than 6,600 tons of space junk are currently floating about in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), between 100 - 1,200 miles (160 - 2,000 km) above our planet's surface.

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Category: Space, Science

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Impossibly lightweight hard-wall pickup camper outsmarts the industry

The lightest-weight full-bodied pickup truck camper we've ever covered has somehow gotten even lighter. While the average pickup camper manufacturer struggles to build products any lighter than 1,500 lb (680 kg), Texas startup Peak Performance spent 2024 getting the word out about a pop-up camper weighing in at a mere 550 lb (249 kg), as midsize truck-friendly as you'll find.

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Category: Outdoors, Lifestyle

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Evening exercise impacts sleep for longer than previously thought

A new study of nearly 15,000 people found that the window of late-night workouts in which sleep is then impacted is actually much larger than previously thought, showing that exercising within four hours of bedtime can have a detrimental effect on shut-eye.

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Category: Fitness & Exercise, Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind

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