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By Loz Blain – Germany’s Twike: an enclosed electric trike with pedal generators for exercise as you go. (Credit: Twike). The shift to electric will open up all sorts of new vehicle categories – and we found this one super interesting. The Twike …
By Loz Blain – – ADIFO could resurrect the idea of flying saucers, promising extreme speed, efficiency and aerial agility. (Credit: ADIFO Aircraft). At low speed, it operates like a quadcopter, at high speed, it’s a jet-propelled, highly efficient supersonic aircraft whose entire body acts …
By Michael Irving – – – A new system of “particle robots” can swarm together to achieve things that individual units can’t alone. (Credit: Felice Frankel). Most robots are usually made to do one particular job, so they’re not very adaptable to new situations. But …
By Rich Haridy – – – Marijuana with THC levels above 10 percent has been associated with greater incidences of psychotic episodes. (Credit: JanMika/Depositphotos). A major new study examining the association between potent marijuana, frequency of use and rates of psychosis has confidently …
This isn’t good. By Sarah Sloat – Whether it’s to fight FOMO or play Fortnite, teens are tethered to their phones. Smartphone addiction has become so bad that even smartphone creators want to help people get off their devices, and recent surveys show …
By Rich Haridy – A new hypothesis suggests as we grow old our brains process less images at a slower pace, and it is this that speeds up our sense of time passing. (Credit: lightsource/Depositphotos), The subjective sense that time moves faster as …
By Loz Blain – – Liftoff! Lazareth’s Moto Volante in a stable 1-meter hover on safety tethers. (Credit: Lazareth Auto Moto). “We don’t know if Lazareth is genuinely intending to test fly this thing,” we wrote when we first saw La Moto Volante …
By Loz Blain – – Liftoff! Lazareth’s Moto Volante in a stable 1-meter hover on safety tethers. (Credit: Lazareth Auto Moto). “We don’t know if Lazareth is genuinely intending to test fly this thing,” we wrote when we first saw La Moto Volante …
By Luke Kemp – Studying the demise of historic civilizations can tell us how much risk we face today, says collapse expert Luke Kemp. Worryingly, the signs are worsening. Great civilisations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives. DEEP CIVILISATION …
By Rich Haridy – – Heroic work of the firefighters of Mexicali, Baja California, México attending a gigantic fire of a recycling plant – 1st place winner in the National Awards for México. (Credit: Victor Medina Gorosave, México, 1st Place, National Awards, 2019 …
