City of Alamogordo lost $250,000 to fake vendor Santa Fe, NM – The City of Alamogordo last week paid more than $250,000 to an unknown scam artist, and recovery of that public money is likely to be difficult if not impossible. In light of that …
By Loz Blain . The TMC Dumont’s 36-inch rims make it look like a rolling pair of spectacles – and a spectacle it certainly is. Impractical? Sure! Vulgar? Most certainly. Unique? In every sense. This staggering custom motorcycle uses the biggest pair …
by Angel San Juan, KFDM Staff – Photo: KFDM Staff. PORT ARTHUR, Texas (KFDM) — Some Port Arthur residents are planting trees in potholes to protest the poor condition of their street. Several neighbors say when it comes to the condition of their …
By Alice Tidey & Lillo Montalto Monella © Copyright: University of Leeds. Potholes are the bane of drivers’ existence and a major, expensive, headache for authorities. But researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK are hoping to deploy a drone capable of …
David Szondy – BlackFly is a single-seater electric VTOL aircraft (Credit: Opener) Canadian-based aviation firm Opener Inc. has unveiled its new BlackFly single-seater aircraft, which it bills as a Personal Aerial Vehicle (PAV) and the world’s first ultralight all-electric fixed-wing Vertical Take-Off …
David Szondy – The new quantum radar would negate the near-invisibility of stealth aircraft like the B-2 Spirit bomber (Credit: USAF) Stealth technology may not be very stealthy in the future thanks to a US$2.7-million project by the Canadian Department of National …
The bat bomb was designed to terrorize the people of Japan in a most unexpected way. By Katie Serena – Errant bats from the experimental bat bomb set the Carlsbad Army Airfield Auxiliary Air Base in New Mexico on fire on May 15, …
Paul Ridden – The Cuda underwater jetpack is currently at the prototype stage, but is heading for production in early 2019 (Credit: 3D Hubs) The UK’s Archie O’Brien had a dream of zipping below the waters off Iceland or swimming with dolphins …
Michael Irving – A new nanogel could make for a better snake antivenom, by sequestering the toxins within the bloodstream (Credit: SURZet/Depositphotos) According to the World Health Organization, snakes bite an estimated 5 million people each year, killing more than 100,000 of …
Now researchers are trying to build a machine version of the perfect dog nose – Photo by Stéphane Juban on Unsplash. Christa Trexler – Cardiology, UC San Diego. Dogs are amazing at a lot of things. Their cuddling skills are unrivaled (sorry …
