Rich Haridy – Image of Distinction: Cassida rubiginosa (thistle tortoise beetle), ventral view (Credit: Özgür Bulur). A surreal close-up of a weevil eye has taken the top prize at this year’s Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. The magnificent annual photography competition, now in …
We’ve started searching for rare earth elements in some unlikely places Laura Mast, Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. U.S. National Archives on Flickr. Rare earth elements — elements like scandium, neodymium, and dysprosium — have found their way into every aspect of our …
Loz Blain – Something like an electric Grom, the Pocket Rocket is a humble, practical and clean e-commuter (Credit: Sol Motors). It’s too fast and powerful to be an e-bike, but so underpowered that you’d hardly call it a motorcycle. Sol Motors …
Paul Ridden – A production run of 25 FUV pilot vehicles has begun, ahead of retail availability by the close of 2018 (Credit: Arcimoto). After notching up eight generations of prototype electric three-wheelers, Arcimoto has followed a 15 model Beta Series by kicking off …
“The impacts on human well being, including mental health, may be catastrophic.” By Sarah Sloat – A landmark United Nations report revealed that catastrophic events induced by climate change could become regular occurrences as soon as 2040. In the report, published recently, the …
Rich Haridy – A new technique successfully edited a single genetic mutation prenatally, resulting in healthy mice being born (Credit: spgirolamo/Depositphotos). In a remarkable proof-of-concept study, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have, for the first time, …
Nick Lavars – A compound found in the venom of the Australian funnel-web spider was found to kill off melanoma cells in the lab (Credit: pelooyen/Depositphotos). Discoveries of potentially life-saving peptides in the venom of deadly animals are, counter-intuitively, not all that …
Loz Blain – Frank Ohle’s outrageous Red Baron ready for take off at Intermot 2018, with all eyes on that nine-cylinder Rotec Radial R3600 aircraft engine (Credit: Loz Blain/New Atlas). The Intermot expo, held every year just across the Rhine from …
Michael Irving – The first steps towards brain-to-brain interfaces for collaborative problem solving are being made in the laboratory (Credit: Andreus/Depositphotos). The internet has made it easy for groups to collaborate from pretty much anywhere, but this experimental brain-to-brain “social network” could be …
By Mark Kaufman – The red-tinged Martian surface. Image: nasa/JpL Scientists don’t expect to get their hands on Martian soil anytime soon, so they’re making their own.Created by University of Central Florida astrophysicists, this red soil, called Mars “simulant,” is designed to …
