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Honda has laid out new technologies it plans to pursue in the coming decades. Building on current areas of expertise, the company will look to develop an eVTOL for inter-city transport, a robot that will act as an avatar for users to perform tasks remo… Continue reading Honda sets its sights on an eVTOL, telepresence robot and space tech
Many efforts to develop malaria vaccines in recent decades have focused on triggering an immune response to prevent the disease from infecting liver cells. But researchers at the Burnet Institute have examined the potential to attack the parasite earli… Continue reading Attacking early proves a promising path for a better malaria vaccine
While their winged counterparts are designed to stay aloft for weeks at a time, multirotor drones are more renowned for their maneuverability. California-based drone manufacturer Skyfront was established in 2014 to push the flight duration boundaries o… Continue reading Skyfront claims endurance world record for gas-electric multirotor drone
Although muscle stem cells are able to grow and repair torn muscle tissue after we sustain an injury, they become less effective as we age. Now researchers at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute at Monash University have discovered a novel p… Continue reading Protein discovery promises powerful new muscle regrowth treatments
After finding success with the original Claw in 2018, selling over 100,000 of what creators Malboro & Cane claimed may be the world’s smallest multitool, the team has taken on board customer feedback and gone bigger and better with its latest everyday … Continue reading Claw 2.0 upsizes world’s smallest EDC multitool… slightly
At CES 2012, Sony unveiled its first Crystal LED display, a 55-inch prototype that looked to offer many of the advantages of OLED, without the downsides. It made the technology available to (extremely well-heeled) consumers in 2019, but due to colossal… Continue reading Sony targets new Crystal LED display modules at studios and corporates
The CityHawk variant of Urban Aeronautics’ Cormorant military VTOL aircraft has taken a step towards being used in emergency medical service (EMS) applications. Following the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with New York-based Hatzolah A… Continue reading CityHawk VTOL preordered by New York-based EMS organization
Samsung was first to market with a curved OLED TV in 2013, and LG’s offerings followed the next year. But such screens were a case of a technical capability in search of an application, and consumers in their wisdom realized that TVs weren’t it. Gaming… Continue reading LG Display to demo transforming, bendable OLED display at CES
It’s rare that gravel gets scientists so excited, but these are no ordinary rocks. They’re the samples returned to Earth by Hayabusa2 after its 5.24-billion-km round trip to asteroid Ryugu, and this is our first glimpse at them after the spacecraft lan… Continue reading First glimpse at Hayabusa2’s asteroid haul
SpaceX has been making controlled landings of its Falcon 9 boosters to allow them to be reused for a number of years now. Such landings involve the rockets touching down, be it on a boat or a launch pad, using legs built into the rocket. But SpaceX CEO… Continue reading Elon Musk reveals catch and quick release plans for Super Heavy booster