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by Ned Dymoke – Flickr user: Amtec Staffing. Ties: they’re what the majority of the men in the western working world wear day in, day out, around their necks. Some wear them way too long. Others wear them comically short. Some have bows, …
We explain nothing. By Brian Resnick@B_resnickbrian@vox.com Additional reporting by Ellen Rolfes and Kimberly Mas – Dude … have you ever, like, even thought about the number zero? It’s wild. Getty Images. The computer you’re reading this article on right now runs on a …
by Robby Berman – A spider tiptoes before heading to the sky. (University of Bristol). It’s been a longstanding mystery: Spiders have been seen hundreds of miles out to sea and thousands of feet up in the air. They are amazing creatures, but …
“Animals cannot be treated merely as Property” By Mari Margil – On July 4, the High Court of Uttarakhand at Naintal in northern India issued a ruling in a case brought to end cruelty of horses used in transport. The court declared that: …
Paul Ridden – The CanguRo personal assistant/smart scooter can follow its user around or provide a motor-driven ride (Credit: Yusuke Nishibe). Folks looking for a last mile transport solution have choice-a-plenty nowadays, but the CanguRo offers more than just a comfy ride. …
Paul Ridden – The ATLIS VTOL autonomous drone is being designed for long range cargo hauling (Credit: Aergility). Florida’s Aergility has spent the last few years developing and testing a new kind of vertical take-off and landing aircraft (VTOL) called the ATLIS. The …
Michael Irving – An artist’s impression of a collision between the Milky Way and a smaller dwarf galaxy, such as that which occurred about eight to 10 billion years ago (Credit: V. Belokurov (Cambridge, UK) based on an image by ESO/Juan Carlos …
Michael Irving – Scientists have detected beams of antimatter being blasted towards the ground in the eyewall of a hurricane (Credit: razlomov/Depositphotos) Although Hurricane Patricia was one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, that didn’t stop the National Oceanic and Atmospheric …
Michael Irving – Researchers have found that 85 percent of asteroids in the inner belt could have come from just five or six ancient minor planets (Credit: University of Florida) They might seem like boring old rocks, but asteroids and meteorites have some …
Michael Irving – Imperial Motion’s new Nano Cure Tent can self-heal small punctures and holes in its surface (Credit: Imperial Motion) Everything from electronics to concrete is getting the self-healing treatment nowadays, but the technology rarely seems to make it to commercial …
