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In a proposal that reads more like the script to a new sci-fi movie, researchers are suggesting a unique way to tackle one of the core problems of quantum computing. If deployed, it would redefine how we think of "cloud computing."
Category: Quantum Computing, Science
Tags: Airships, Blimp, Quantum, KAUST, Stratospheric
One of my favorite IKEA products is a plastic foldable phone stand that weighs next to nothing and lives on your keychain. It's a practical little thing for passing the time if you're out and about a lot – but hardware brand MeToolDesign has taken that concept and leveled it up to create a much more useful piece of EDC gear.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: EDC, Titanium, Kickstarter
We'd like to welcome this curious armless burrowing lizard into the New Species Hall of Fame. Despite being built for life underground, in the end this slider skink was no match for scientists who had searched for a decade to confirm its existence.
Tags: Australian National University, Species, Reptile, Discovered, Australia
Following a report at the start of this year, more details have been revealed on what is arguably the world's most ambitious architecture project: the mind-bogglingly tall JEC Tower, which is currently rising in Saudi Arabia.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Building and Construction, Skyscrapers, Saudi Arabia, World's Tallest
You may be sitting on – so to speak – a very valuable asset that scientists would love to get their hands on: your poop. As well as blood, plasma and organs, you can now donate fecal samples to stool banks for research and use in transplants.
Tags: University of New South Wales, fecal transplant, Organ donation, Banking, Microbiome, Gut Bacteria, Gut health
Peak wildfire season may be over in California, but home-threatening fires remain a year-round threat in many areas, and this innovative three-part kit offers homeowners some new and easy ways to give houses a fighting chance.
Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle
Tags: Fire, Fire-Proof Coatings, Firefighting, Wildfires, DIY
On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly known as Chernobyl) nuclear plant, thousands of animals now roam freely through forests, abandoned towns and decaying industrial estates. Among them are the stray dogs – around 900 descendants of the pets left behind, now living in a landscape shaped by the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
Tags: Nuclear, Wildlife, Dogs, Radiation, Disasters, University of South Carolina, Conservation
I’ve been an enthusiast cook for 40 years, and I have gathered some nice knives and cookware. But I’ve never much cared what stove I was using – beyond a general preference for gas or induction.
Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle
Tags: Cooking, Kitchen, Appliances, Induction
It’s been a productive year for Carlo Ratti Associati, an Italian architectural firm known for blending man-made construction with natural environments. The company recently unveiled a sophisticated mountain shelter that will soon find its permanent location in the Italian Alps. Now, CRA has collaborated with American creative studio Höweler + Yoon and Italian steel construction company Cimolai on a new experiment. The result of their five-month effort is a 400-square-meter (4,306-sq-ft) floating plaza – AquaPraça.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Carlo Ratti Associati, Floating, Climate Crisis, Brazil
Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were buried, squeezed, heated, and broken apart by the planet's shifting crust before reappearing at the surface. These drastic changes erased most traces of how life began and evolved.
Tags: Fossils, Photosynthesis, Evolution, History
Nobody wants harmful bacteria colonizing the surfaces of objects such as medical implants, yet we also don't want them building up a resistance to antibiotics. Well, help may be on the way, in the form of tiny metal structures that kill the microbes by poking holes in them.
Category: Science
Tags: metal-organic frameworks, Chalmers University, Antibacterial
Industrial pipes carrying water or chemicals invariably get gunked up as deposits accumulate on their internal surfaces. That slows flow, and slowly damages the equipment, leading to the need for periodic maintenance and higher operational costs.
Tags: Diamonds, Rice University, Coatings, Minerals
We've recently seen a bunch of E Ink smartphones released for eye-friendly productivity on the go. But what if you don't want to give up your handset, yet would like an ePaper assistant on tap? That's where the Reetle SmartInk I comes in.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Kickstarter, Protection, E-Ink, Productivity, E-reader, iPhone
This recently completed tiny house squeezes a lot of living space into a compact footprint using clever design. Named Tiny House Into the Woods, the upstairs features an unusual layout that includes a large netted area, which helps ensure that the entire home is flooded with daylight.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Micro-House, Tiny Footprint, House, Building and Construction
Concrete is the world's most manufactured item, with more than 25 billion tons used in construction each year. It's also responsible for consuming vast quantities of non-renewable resources, and spewing out 8% of all greenhouse gas emissions annually. So any steps we can take towards reducing the impact of its production on the planet is a worthwhile effort.
Tags: Concrete, Sustainability, Lithium metal, Flinders University
In a world first, two airports have done away with border guards at counters checking passports and arrival cards, in favor of a new AI-integrated biometric system that lets passengers skip the queue and pass through immigration without stopping.
Category: Transport
Tags: Biometrics, Security, Travel, indonesia, Airports, Passport
The LEO Solo is now available for preorder, pitched as a Part 103-friendly (no pilot license required), single-seat personal eVTOL. It's apparently going to production in late 2025, which according to our watches is about right now.
Through its Tactical Technology Office (TTO), DARPA wants to move drones to the next level with its Lift Challenge – a US$6.5-million competition aimed at creating small drones capable of lifting payloads four times their weight.
Category: Military, Technology
Terrified of bloodwork, needles, and clinic bills? Science is getting closer and closer to collecting our health data in fast, affordable, and pain-free ways – the latest example being a cup sticker that measures vitamin C levels in the user's sweat.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
What we think of as polyester fabric is most often actually a blend of polyester and cotton, which has proven very difficult to recycle. A new solvent, however, breaks the blend down into its two components, leaving both almost completely reusable.
Category: Environment, Science
Tags: Vienna University of Technology, Recycling, Textile, Cotton