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The world’s first flight test for an aerospike rocket engine ended in disaster, but Polaris Aerospace is back on track, preparing to fly two new prototypes for its MIRA supersonic/hypersonic aerospike spaceplane platform within weeks.
Tags: Aircraft, Polaris, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Rocket, Kerosene, World’s First
Continue reading World’s first aerospike aircraft to fly this month after crash setback
Three Danish energy tech firms have flung open the doors to the first ever green ammonia plant in the world, in the town of Ramme, Denmark.
Tags: World’s First, Clean Energy, Ammonia, Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Continue reading World’s first green ammonia plant is now open for business
Having both front and rear suspension helps mountain bikers maintain traction, stay in control, and make (relatively) soft landings from big drops. So, why aren’t there full-suspension BMX bikes? Well, now there is one, in the form of the Swamp Master.
Tags: BMX, Suspension, World’s First
Continue reading Swamp Master claims title of “world’s first complete full-suspension BMX”
Liquid hydrogen is a giant pain to handle, but it’s one of the few technologies with a genuine chance of decarbonizing long-range flight. So it’s huge news for clean aviation that H2Fly has now landed the word’s first piloted liquid hydrogen flight.
Tags: Climate Solutions: Aviation, cryogenic-hydrogen, Hydrogen Aviation, Hydrogen-powered, Hydrogen, Electric Aircraft, Clean+Fuel, World’s First, Flight
Continue reading H2Fly’s twin-fuselage aircraft makes world-first liquid hydrogen flight
Researchers have developed the world’s first oral drug to target a form of cholesterol that has previously been untreatable and is largely caused by genetics, making it difficult to control by way of exercise, diet or other lifestyle factors.
Tags: Cholesterol, Drug, World’s First, Monash University
Continue reading World-first drug lowers genetic form of “bad cholesterol” by up to 65%
eHang is set to become the world’s first company to get an electric VTOL air taxi type certified and into commercial service, after successfully completing its entire flight test program with China’s aviation authority. Oh, and it’s autonomous.
Tags: eVTOL, Ehang, Electric Aircraft, Air Taxis, China, World’s First
Continue reading eHang completes eVTOL flight tests, full certification now imminent
Of all the different types of bicycles, downhill mountain bikes have to withstand the most abuse. That’s why Colorado-based Revel Bikes decided to 3D-print one of things out of carbon fiber, as an acid test of the technology – the result is the one-off Rodeo.
Tags: Mountain Bikes, Carbon Fiber, 3D Printing, World’s First
Continue reading Rodeo claims title of “world’s first 3D-printed carbon downhill MTB”
Italian startup iSpace2o has announced it’s starting production on the first hull for its Deepseaker DS1 submersible hydrofoil. This machine will rise out of the water to hydrofoil at speeds up to 23 knots (26 mph/43 km/h), or dive as deep as 50 m (164 ft) for underwater shenanigans.
Tags: World’s First, Submarine, Hydrofoil, Boats, New Atlas Audio
Continue reading World’s first submersible hydrofoil: 26 mph above the water, 50 m under
Along with eating animals such as fish and seals, killer whales (aka orcas) are also known to hunt down some types of whales … hence their name. For the first time ever, however, there has now been a documented case of them killing and eating the largest animal in the world – an adult blue whale.
Tags: Flinders University, Whale, World’s First, Ecology, New Atlas Audio
Continue reading Scientists announce first known case of orcas killing an adult blue whale
While robotic laparoscopic surgical systems do make certain procedures safer and less invasive, those systems are still operated by human surgeons. Now, however, a surgical robot has performed a delicate operation entirely on its own.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Surgery, Surgical robot, Autonomous, World’s First, New Atlas Audio
Continue reading Surgical robot performs world-first autonomous laparoscopic procedure