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Commissioned to commemorate the atrocities suffered by occupants of rural villages in Poland during Nazi occupation, Nizio Design International had to walk the tightrope of showing due respect and producing a head-turning design. The firm has risen to … Continue reading Evocative museum masterpiece honors Polish WWII victims
Though Eviation’s nine-seat all-electric passenger aircraft is not due to make its first flight until later this year, the company is already looking to diversify into cargo hauling, with the announcement that DHL Express has placed an order for 12 eCa… Continue reading DHL Express to fly packages in all-electric Alice eCargo airplane
Nuclear and fossil fuel power plants consume huge amounts of water for cooling, which then goes to waste as water vapor. MIT engineers have now developed a system that can capture and recycle that lost water.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, Scien… Continue reading MIT steam collector captures pure water for reuse in power plants
Japan’s Tetra Aviation won a hundred-grand “disruptor award” at the GoFly personal flight contest last year, and has now presented its first commercial product at OshKosh: a 33-rotor Mk5 personal eVTOL it hopes to begin delivering to buyers in 2022.Con… Continue reading Tetra Aviation debuts single-seat buy ‘n’ fly personal eVTOL
Next week, two deep-space probes will make flybys of Venus within 30 hours of each other on their way to the inner reaches of the solar system. On August 9, the Solar Orbiter will pass by the planet often called “Earth’s twin”, followed by the BepiColombo Mercury orbiter on August 10.
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Do you have a brain for math? New research indicates levels of two key neurotransmitters can predict mathematics ability, suggesting brain chemistry may be playing a role in those who find math easy.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: Neuroscience, … Continue reading Math ability predicted by measuring neurotransmitter levels
Most of us have at some point in our busy lives wished there were more hours in the day. That wish actually came true billions of years ago as the Earth’s rotation slowed down – and now a new study hypothesizes that this is why we have so much oxygen n… Continue reading How the Moon, microbes and longer days may have given us more oxygen
For sufferers of diabetes, keeping blood glucose levels within a healthy range can be a difficult and labor-intensive balancing act that often requires regular insulin injections, but some scientists imagine a future where medicine does the heavy lifti… Continue reading “Synthetic hinge” opens a door to smart, glucose-responsive insulin
For much of the first year of the pandemic researchers watched the SARS-CoV-2 virus mutate and change as it spread across the globe. This was expected. Viruses constantly mutate. In fact, genomic changes in a virus can be so pronounced from person to p… Continue reading COVID-19 variants: What comes after Delta?
As the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 continues to sweep the globe some countries are dropping pandemic restrictions despite having only moderate rates of vaccination. With the World Health Organization warning Delta could be just the beginning of the vir… Continue reading “Delta is a warning”: WHO concerned new COVID-19 variants will emerge