Category: Technology

SP80 world’s fastest sailboat has left the workshop and hit the water, for the first time on Lake Geneva. For this test session, SP80 was towed behind a motorboat so that it could measure the hull’s drag. “In addition to being the culmination of years of work, this launch is the first step of a […]

Genetically modified (GM) crops may be controversial, but similar processes happen naturally with wild plants. However, scientists have long been puzzled about how these processes happen. Our recent study may help researchers solve the mystery. People often use the “tree of life” as a metaphor to describe the evolutionary relationships between organisms. The more closely […]

Centenarians, once considered rare, have become commonplace. Indeed, they are the fastest-growing demographic group of the world’s population, with numbers roughly doubling every ten years since the 1970s. How long humans can live, and what determines a long and healthy life, have been of interest for as long as we know. Plato and Aristotle discussed […]

CycloTech first air car with CycloRotors features a compact, passenger-oriented design. CycloTech presents CruiseUp, an air vehicle that visualizes the benefits of CycloRotor technology and its capability of 360° thrust vectoring. Based on 15 years of CycloRotor technology development, wind tunnel testing, and experience from more than 500 flights of its technology demonstrator, the CruiseUp […]

Toyota Baby Lunar Cruiser concept The Toyota Baby Lunar Cruiser with its in-wheel motors, expansive glass canopy, and augmented reality displays, is built to conquer almost any environment. Toyota’s US-based design studio Calty (a mash-up of the words California and Toyota) is celebrating its 50th birthday this year, and its present to itself is this […]

As the local hi-tech ecosystem fails to attract foreign investors, Netanyahu is looking to make the country a leader in artificial intelligence Recent reports have sounded alarm bells for Israel’s vibrant hi-tech ecosystem, once hailed as a global leader. But as the hi-tech sector flounders, leading voices – including that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]

To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the Stone Age, thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago. In today’s fast changing world, older technologies, even those from a few years ago, are often described dismissively as “Stone Age”. Such terms serve to disconnect us from our ancient […]

NASA’s Megarocket engine is ready to fire. NASA will begin a new RS-25 test series, before producing an updated set of engines for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. NASA’s Megarocket engines will help power future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. A series of 12 tests stretching into 2024 will occur on the […]

Samsung Galaxy SmartTag 2 Samsung Galaxy SmartTag 2, with new features and compact design, gives users more power. The new Samsung Galaxy SmartTag 2 arrives on October 10 with an all-new design enabling new and improved ways to keep track of valuables. Upgrades to design and usability make SmartTag2 more helpful than ever before. Jaeyeon […]

When and how humans first settled in the Americas is a subject of considerable controversy. In the 20th century, archaeologists believed that humans reached the North American interior no earlier than around 14,000 years ago. But our new research found something different. Our latest study supports the view that people were in America about 23,000 […]