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By Loz Blain – Look twice, that’s an e-bike – the Nua Electrica to be precise. (Credit: Nua Bikes). If e-bikes tend to look a little ungainly for your tastes, check out this thing from Barcelona’s Nua Bikes. With the motor, sensors and …
By Michael Irving – – A computer simulation of a spiral galaxy, like the Milky Way, forming. These simulations suggest that the outer halo is made up of stars from other galaxies. (Credit: Takayuki Saito/Takaaki Takeda/Sorahiko Nukatani/4D2U Project, NAOJ). Astronomers have discovered a …
By David Szondy – The Manicouagan impact crater in Quebec, Canada, is one of many reminders that asteroids have impacted Earth. Although large impacts are rare, it’s important to be prepared. (Credit: NASA). NASA and its international partners are thinking the unthinkable. A …
By David Szondy – Artistic reconstruction of Callichimaera perplexa. (Credit: Elissa Martin/Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History). An international team of scientists under Yale paleontologist Javier Luque has discovered a 95 million year-old “platypus crab” that may throw into question how you define …
By Michael Irving – The XENON1T experiment may not have found dark matter, but it has now revealed the element with the longest half-life ever recorded. (Credit: The Xenon Collaboration). Although the many experiments searching for evidence of dark matter have yet to …
By Ben Coxworth – Plans call for the WAV to be released next year. (Credit: Nikola Motor Company). The Nikola Motor Company has previously brought us battery-electric cargo trucks and off-road vehicles. This month, the Arizona-based startup announced that another e-vehicle will be joining …
By Adam Williams — Toronto’s Daniels Building at One Spadina Crescent is one of the 2019 AIA COTE Top Ten Awards winners. (Credit: Nic Lehoux). The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (COTE) has revealed the winners of this year’s COTE Top Ten …
By Michael Irving – The Aşıklı Höyük site in Turkey, where researchers have studied urine salts to estimate human and animal populations over time. (Credit: Güneş Duru). One of the most important transitions in human history was when we stopped hunting and …
By Michael Irving – – The new Stuntronics robot from Disney Research can perform autonomous acrobatics in midair before sticking the landing. (Credit: Disney). Disney’s animatronics are coming a long way from drunken pirates waving flagons of ale or hippos that wiggle their ears. …
By Danny Paez – Neuroengineers have created a new system that can translate simple thoughts into recognizable speech, using artificial intelligence and a speech synthesizer, according to a study published recently. A team of New York-based researchers was able to reconstruct words …
