Plant-based burgers that taste a heck of a lot like the real thing are now at your local Burger King. And you can find realistic meatless ground beef and sausages at grocery stores. As the next big thing in sustainable and cruelty-free meat, some startups are growing it in labs from animal cells. In December, […]
They used to call it “Seven Minutes of Terror”—a NASA probe would slice into the atmosphere of Mars at more than 20,000 kilometers per hour; slow itself with a heat shield, parachute, and rocket engines; and somehow land intact on the surface, just six or seven minutes later, while its makers waited helplessly on Earth. The computer-animated landing […]
Tucked under the belly of the Perseverance rover that will be landing on Mars in just a few days is a little helicopter called Ingenuity. Its body is the size of a box of tissues, slung underneath a pair of 1.2m carbon fiber rotors on top of four spindly legs. It weighs just 1.8kg, but […]
Every year for the past decade TomTom, the location technology company that supplies mapping and traffic data to navigation devices, carmakers, and apps around the world, releases an analysis of the world’s traffic. This analysis includes an index of congestion levels, created from data collected from 600 million drivers in 416 cities around the world, […]
The sailing speed record has been held for 8 years. A team of students and young engineers is in the process of developing a kiteboat to smash this record in 2022. Projected speed: 80 knots. The story of an audacious project told by two of its co-founders. SP80 At 3:30 a.m. on Lake Geneva last […]
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As a global manufacturer for machine components, Elesa have begun development for the robotics and automation industry.
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Active noise cancellation/control (ANC) headsets depend on passive sound attenuation from the padding and cups found in headphones and earphones. This makes ANC headphones effective noise control devices, although wearing these for extended periods of time can be uncomfortable and even cause injury. A group of researchers from the University of Technology Sydney’s Centre for Audio, Acoustics and Vibration have been […]
As the nasal swab probed higher into my nose, as if straining to pierce my brain, time slowed like molasses. Time stretched even longer as I waited three days for the COVID-19 test results. That was in early August. Now it’s late December, and I’m currently on day four waiting for COVID-19 results for my […]