Collaborate Disseminate
Chinese automaker XPeng has updated the design of its AeroHT flying car – a luxury electric sportster with a fold-out vertical-lift octacopter system on the roof. It looks absolutely nutty, but a two-ton flying prototype indicates this is no joke.Conti… Continue reading They’re serious: XPeng tests two-ton eVTOL flying car prototype
Researchers in South Korea have developed an ultra-small, ultra-thin LiDAR device that splits a single laser beam into 10,000 points covering an unprecedented 180-degree field of view. It’s capable of 3D depth-mapping an entire hemisphere of vision in … Continue reading Tiny solid-state LiDAR device can 3D-map a full 180-degree field of view
California startup Alef Aeronautics has shown off a remarkably fresh take on the street-legal eVTOL flying car in its 2025 Model A. This wild design debuts a 2-axis tilting cabin, and a horizontal cruise flight mode unlike anything we’ve seen before.Co… Continue reading Astonishing eVTOL flying car design uses side panels as biplane wings
You might know the Cordyceps mushroom as the “zombie fungus” – for good reason. Its name is derived from Greek and Latin, meaning “club head,” and many nature documentaries have focused on its chilling ability to infect certain insects, most famously a… Continue reading Researchers grow high-potency medicinal “zombie fungus” in the lab
Caltech’s wildly ambitious space solar project, buoyed by a massive hundred-million-dollar donation, is preparing to launch its first prototypes into orbit. These cutting-edge ultralight structures will collect, convert and wirelessly send energy.Conti… Continue reading Caltech’s space solar project prepares for its first orbital prototype
Irish company OceanEnergy has already tested its oscillating water column generators at significant scale in Hawaii, and it’s just signed on to a four-year project to test, validate and commercialize its biggest unit yet off Orkney, in Scotland. The OE… Continue reading Giant, megawatt-scale wave energy generator to be tested in Scotland
Yank Ducati’s new Panigale V4 R out of its crate, replace the purely ornamental standard exhaust with a titanium Akrapovic race pipe and fill it up with a fancy “performance oil” from Shell, and you’re sitting on a machine capable of 240.5 horsepower.C… Continue reading Ducati’s latest street-legal superbike makes more than 240 horsepower
Aeromine says its unique “motionless” rooftop wind generators deliver up to 50% more energy than a solar array of the same price, while taking up just 10% of the roof space and operating more or less silently. In independent tests, they seem legit.Cont… Continue reading Rooftop wind system delivers 150% the energy of solar per dollar
Florida company Poseidon Amphibworks is raising money toward a prototype of its Trident LS-1. This electric, AWD three-wheeler will be capable of highway speeds on land, and it’ll extend its range capabilities in the water using low-drag hydrofoils.Con… Continue reading Amphibious electric 3-wheeler will drive, float and hydrofoil
UNSW researchers have prototyped and tested a retrofit system that converts diesel engines to run on 90% hydrogen, radically reducing both carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions while boosting efficiency by an impressive 26% in the process.Continue… Continue reading Retrofit system converts existing diesel engines to run on 90% hydrogen