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By Loz Blain – Continental is about to start making your car’s dash start jumping out at you. Continental. – The instrument panel is about to start jumping out of car dashboards. Tier-one OEM supplier Continental has built a glasses-free, “auto-stereoscopic” 3D car …
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By Amanda Sedlak-Hevener – Updated 2017 Sep 12 – The history of the number zero stretches from early civilizations in the fertile crescent (now known as the Middle East) all the way into modern times. This means the question of who invented the number zero …
By Loz Blain – An artist’s impression of Elpistostege as it may have looked nearly 400 million years ago. Katrina Kenny. – Described as “the missing evolutionary link in the fish to tetrapod transition,” a fascinating Canadian fossil reveals an ancient fish species with …
By Paul Ridden – The Arcimoto Rapid Responder is now being tested by the Eugene Springfield Fire Department ahead of production later in 2021. Arcimoto. – A little over a year ago, Oregon’s Arcimoto revealed a special version of its battery-electric three-wheeler designed for …
The purpose of such an elaborate structure remains a big open question. The remains of the newly discovered structure. (A. E. Dudin) – By Brian Handwerk – SmithsonianMag.Com – A jaw-dropping example of Ice Age architecture has been unearthed on Russia’s forest steppe: …
At 5,000 years old, the weapon predates the era when humans first started using tin to make bronze. Serafino Jamourlian of the monastery of San Lazzaro degli Armeni and Vittoria Dall’Armellina with a newly rediscovered 5,000-year-old sword. (Andrea Avezzù). – By Katherine J. …
Maria Kirch was the first woman to discover a comet, but her husband took the credit. Even 300 years later, Maria Margaretha Winkelmann Kirch is denied credit for her work. By JoEllen McBride, Astrophysics – Author’s Note I had never heard of Maria Winkelmann-Kirch …
By Nick Lavars – Scientists have found that gut bacteria in waxworms is a key driver of their appetite for plastic. Brandon University. – Plastic pollution is a monumental issue and one that isn’t going away anytime soon, but researchers are opening …
By Rich Haridy – March 16, 2020 – This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 colorized with different tones to better highlight the crown-like spikes protruding from the surface of the virus. NIAID-w. – A new study published in the journal Science has tracked …
