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By Aaron Turpen – Road hazards are absorbed by the Uptis tire, eliminating about 200 million tires a year that are scrapped early due to damage. (Credit: Michelin). Michelin has teamed with General Motors to target a 2024 production goal for airless …
by Tribune Media Wire – – SLIDELL, La. — A Taco Bell in Louisiana ran out of taco shells Monday, which was emergency enough for one customer to call police. – Police in Slidell said someone called to complain that the Taco Bell …
By Joseph Stiglitz – Critics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it. But we can’t afford not to: our civilization is at stake. ‘The war on the climate emergency, if correctly waged, would actually be good for the economy.’ …
By Loz Blain – Compact and portable, the Jyrowheel is launching on Indiegogo. (Credit: Jyroball). Weighing just 20 lb (9 kg) and folding into a 10-inch-diameter (25-cm) ball for transport, the Jyroball is a super-compact self-balancing urban monowheel that its creators say is …
By Ben Coxworth – Brown tube sponges on a reef in Belize. (Credit: dsabo/Depositphotos). We’ve recently been hearing about how scientists can tell which creatures are present in an aquatic environment, by detecting their cast-off DNA in the water. A new study …
By Maggie O’Neill – Mount Sinai Health System © Provided by TIME Inc. In January 2018, Rachel Palma started noticing her body wasn’t working quite right. Her mind wasn’t functioning properly, and she would suddenly drop items she was holding. “My right hand …
On the 30th anniversary of the massacre, commemorations to those who were killed will show the Chinese government we will not be silenced. By Rowena Xiaoqing He – Tiananmen Square on 2 June 1989, two days before the massacre. Photograph: Catherine Henriette/AFP/Getty Images. …
With CVS selling more groceries than Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s combined, researchers fear food ‘deserts’ are becoming ‘swamps’ of processed food. Gabrielle Canon @GabrielleCanon – Los Angeles, California, has some of the worst food ‘swamps’ in the country. Photograph: Daniel Slim/AFP/Getty Images. …
By Nick Lavars – Volkswagen’s ID.R in action at Nürburgring-Nordschleife. (Credit: Volkswagen). Volkswagen built its ID.R with the intention of showing what the heads in its electric drive division are capable of, and it only took a few months after its unveiling for the …
C.C. Weiss – Those giant 63-in Sherp tires propel the beast through water, as well as over land. (Credit: 4theriders.com / New Atlas). Overland Expo celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, and the 2019 show proved more than ever that “overlanding” has exploded from …
