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Continental Europe's first attempt at an orbital space launch ended shorter than expected after Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket returned to Earth with a bang 30 seconds after lifting off only to crash and explode in the Norwegian Sea next to the pad.
A new antibiotic to treat stubborn urinary tract infection (UTI) and a blood-clot-dissolving intravenous treatment for acute ischemic stroke have been granted approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It's been nearly three decades since adjacent treatments have entered the market to treat their respective conditions.
Category: Stroke, Brain Health, Body & Mind
Tags: Strokes, Bacteria, Antibiotic, Medication, FDA
With a length of just 8 m (26 ft), the Kookaburra features a well-designed interior layout that's suitable for two people. It includes a spacious and light-filled living room, plus it has a full kitchen and even a home office.
Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, Micro-House, Tiny Footprint, House, Home
A pair of studies conducted by OpenAI and MIT Media Lab found a small percentage of test subjects who used ChatGPT extensively reported increased loneliness and emotional dependence, as well as reduced social interaction.
Category: AI & Humanoids, Technology
Tags: GPT, Open AI, mental health, MIT
Scientists in China have created a new type of display with the smallest pixels and the highest pixel density ever. Individual pixels were shrunk to 90 nanometers – about the size of a virus – and a record 127,000 of them were crammed into every inch of a display.
Category: Electronics, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Display, miniLED, Micro LED, LED, Nano, Cambridge University, University of Cambridge, Zhejiang University
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) has shown off the United States' latest nuclear weapon as full production begins seven months ahead of schedule. The B61-13 variable-yield gravity bomb is part of a major program to modernize the American nuclear deterrent.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: US Department of Energy, US Air Force, Sandia Labs, Nuclear weapons
Construction has begun on an eye-catching new skyscraper in Miami, Florida. The residential tower will be defined by its sculpted exterior and feature solar-panel-integrated windows to help reduce its grid-based energy usage.
Category: Architecture, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, Skyscrapers, Residential towers, Luxury, Miami
The method used to brew coffee can significantly affect levels of natural cholesterol-raising compounds called diterpenes, according to a new study. It might be that the way your coffee is made is affecting your heart health.
Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: Coffee, Brewing, Cholesterol, Uppsala University
There’s just something about well-put-together Royal Enfield custom builds. Ever since the Indian bikemaker released its 650 platform, it opened a portal to some of the most iconic custom designs I’ve seen. This one comes courtesy of the Australian custom shop, Purpose Built Moto.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Royal Enfield, 650s, Custom Bikes, Retro
Yangwang, the Chinese carmaker that brought us the [Mach 5 inspired?] jumping/dancing U9 electric hypercar, isn't shy when it comes to boasting about the off-kilter feats its vehicles can deliver. This time it's rooftop Wing Chun on the new U7.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, China
If last weekend's Lutz Minicamper seemed a little too cushy, expensive or pavement-limited for you, perhaps you'll like the Let's Go Aero (LGA) Crashpad a little better. Originally designed as a ruggedized towable pickup bed for hauling heavy, jagged cargo across equally jagged off-road surfaces, LGA's trailer now transforms into a pull-behind pop-top pickup camper of the simplest form. It's an affordable, hassle-free and versatile way to travel and camp your way through the wild.
Tags: trailers, Trailer, Caravan, RV, Cargo, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Off-road
Swedish sci-fi adventure flick Watch the Skies is using a technique called 'visual dubbing' to alter the cast's lip movements and map them to dubbed English dialogue for international audiences – without reshooting a single scene.
Category: AI & Humanoids, Technology
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Movies, Filmmaking
A gorgeous solution to a common problem... This mesmerizing mechanical vise adjusts its shape to hold oddly shaped items still without damaging them, using a design first patented more than a century ago. It can also turn inside-out.
Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle
Tags: Tools, Kickstarter, Engineering, Crowdfunding
We think we know what someone means when they call something "airplane-shaped," but real-world aircraft come in a surprising variety of forms. Two particular oddities were so far out on the bell curve that they were known as the "Flying Flapjacks."
Category: Military, Technology
Remember Verge Motorcycles? Yes, the same brand that took it upon itself to almost reinvent the way motorcycles look. Well, it seems like the hubless electric motorcycle manufacturer has been up to something significant recently.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Hubless, Electric Motorcycles, Electric Vehicles, Travel, Road Tests
A new study has found that a kid who has suffered a concussion – even a mild one – is 15% less likely to go on to higher education in adulthood. It highlights the long-term impact of traumatic brain injury on learning, regardless of severity.
Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: Concussions, Traumatic Brain Injury, Sports, University of Tampere
When you’re named after a bear, you'd better swing like one too. Well, this German electric motocrosser certainly looks able to take on its gas-powered foes, boasting high torque, light weight, and nimble handling.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Electric Motorcycles, Enduro, Off-road
It's never a good thing, when a bacterial biofilm forms on the surface of a medical implant. There could soon be a new way of eradicating such films, however, using tiny remote-control liquid-bodied robots.
Category: Medical Devices, Medical Innovations, Body & Mind
Tags: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Max Planck Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Robots, Bacteria, Biofilm, Implant, Infections, Magnetic
Wouldn't it be great if there were a way of chasing down waterborne microplastic particles and catching them for removal, as opposed to just passively filtering them out of water bodies? Well, experimental new "microcleaners" can reportedly do that very thing.
Category: Environment, Science
Tags: Microplastic, Chitin, North Carolina State University, Water, Pollution
Researchers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a tiny sensor that can help keep tabs on metabolites – substances produced or used when your body breaks down food, medication, or even its own fat and muscle in metabolic processes – far more extensively than current methods.
Category: Medical Innovations, Body & Mind
Tags: metabolism, UCLA, Sensors, Lab on a Chip, metabolism