Franky Zapata piloting the Flyboard Air at high speed in 2016. Zapata Racing – By Loz Blain 2022 May 29 – Ah, those magnificent men in their flying machines. They go up, diddly-up-up. They go down, diddly-own-down. French sky-surfer and Green Goblin lookalike Franky …
Researchers in Japan have broken the data transmission speed record. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2022 Jun 01 – Researchers in Japan have clocked a new speed record for data transmission – a blistering 1.02 petabits per second (Pb/s). Better yet, the breakthrough was …
A section of the seagrass meadow that’s now been found to be the largest plant in the world. University of Western Australia – By Michael Irving 2022 May 31 – Researchers have discovered what seems to be the largest plant in the world – …
Direct sound printing uses ultrasound to create microscopic oscillating bubbles, which in turn cause resin to solidify at specific locations. Depositphotos – By Ben Coxworth 2022 May 31 – 3D printing typically involves depositing layers of molten plastic, laser-melting powdered metal, or using UV …
Researchers still don’t know precisely how many get long Covid, what causes it or how best to treat it. Many long haulers report fatigue, brain fog, and a range of other symptoms for months after their infection. Photograph: VioletaStoimenova/Getty Images – By Eric …
Several Pacific nations reportedly want to defer action on the draft agreement or have it amended. Henry Puna (2nd R), secretary general of the Pacific Islands Forum, holds a meeting with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi (3rd L) in Fiji’s capital city of …
Predicted wind gusts could cause fire to jump containment lines as crews in New Mexico try to stop growth of US’s biggest wildfire. Crews in northern New Mexico cut and clear containment lines around nearly half of the perimeter of the nation’s largest …
The Afreda S6’s front linkage allows the two front wheels to tilt into corners, and to independently move straight up and down by up to 11 inches. Afreda – By Ben Coxworth 2022 May 18 – Although electric scooters are becoming extremely popular, the …
Members celebrate the restoration of lands they had stewarded for thousands of years. Salish Pend d’Oreille elder Stephen Small Salmon expressed hope that the tribes would reclaim Big Medicine, a rare white calf born in 1933. His taxidermied body is at the Montana …
Researchers at the QuTech collaboration have managed to teleport quantum information between two non-adjacent nodes for the first time. Marieke de Lorijn for QuTech – By Michael Irving 2022 May 26 – Scientists in the Netherlands have made a major step towards quantum computer …
