Collaborate Disseminate
British wunderkind Jacob Collier is the most limitless musical genius I’ve seen in my lifetime, and over the last year he’s been working on what I suspect could become the greatest improvisational musical instrument ever created.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Jacob Collier is making orchestras out of his audiences, and it’s wild
Russia is the only country that sells the HALEU fuel that some next-generation nuclear plants will rely on, and with sanctions now in place due to the war in Ukraine, TerraPower has now conceded its demo timeline will blow out by at least two years.Con… Continue reading Minimum two-year setback for TerraPower’s advanced nuclear demonstrator
British electric hypercar company McMurtry has a somewhat unfair advantage over the rest of the car world, and it’s used it to achieve a pair of astonishing acceleration records: 0-60 mph in 1.4 seconds, and a 7.97-second quarter mile.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Hypercar, World’s Fastest, Electric Vehicles
Continue reading McMurtry Spéirling smashes Rimac Nevera’s acceleration records
Some folk baked a lot of bread during lockdowns. Others assembled a team of scientists and figured out a practical way to turn asteroids into space habitats, by spinning them inside out and creating giant rotating, Manhattan-sized city-rings.Continue R… Continue reading Inside-out asteroids: A practical method for creating space habitats
NASA has contracted Virginia’s Advanced Air Company to design and build a prototype of a new type of transition-capable eVTOL drone – a tilt-wing concept that uses aerodynamic forces instead of actuators to tilt the wings and propulsion systems.Continu… Continue reading AAC to develop a unique free-swinging tilt-wing UAV for NASA
One problem with renewably-produced hydrogen is that it uses fresh water – and with a quarter of the world’s population already facing severe water scarcity at least one month of every year, freshwater is an ever more finite and precious resource. So t… Continue reading Clever device efficiently splits hydrogen and lithium out of seawater
France’s H3 Dynamics has presented its self-contained hydrogen propulsion pods for retrofit or line fit to drones and airplanes. They deliver enormous range and endurance figures without heavy batteries, and they mirror the approach Airbus and others a… Continue reading H3 debuts all-in-one hydrogen powertrain pods for long-range flight
In a world first, the New Zealand government has passed laws that will permanently outlaw the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products to anyone born after 2008, creating a “smokefree generation” that will never legally be able to buy tobacco.Cont… Continue reading New Zealand enacts world-first generational ban on tobacco
Next-generation fighter jets will go into combat with semi-autonomous wingman drones designed to act as force multipliers. Here’s one in development: Airbus has just dropped its Remote Carrier demonstrator out of a cargo plane, for a mid-air launch.Con… Continue reading Video: Airbus launches loyal wingman combat drone out of a carrier
RMIT researchers say they’ve unlocked cheaper, more energy-efficient green hydrogen production with a new electrolysis technique boosted by sound waves. With these high-frequency vibrations active, standard electrolysis produces 14x more hydrogen.Conti… Continue reading High-frequency sound waves make electrolyzers produce 14x more hydrogen