Category: Technology

Frauscher x Porsche eFantom electric speedboat Frauscher x Porsche eFantom electric speedboat based on Macan EV. Porsche and Austrian shipyard Frauscher have taken the first production eFantom boat based on electric Macan power, that will cruise for an hour before needing a charge. The Frauscher x Porsche 850 Fantom Air uses components of the Premium […]

Rolls-Royce Black Badge Ghost Ekleipsis private collection designed to reach the cosmic darkness of a total solar eclipse. The Black Badge Ghost Ékleipsis Private Collection immortalizes the seldom-seen alignment of the Sun and Moon, a total solar eclipse is a magical cosmic phenomenon. The wondrous vision during the darkest moment of a total eclipse, is […]

The devastating tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011 set off a series of events which have long fascinated scientists like me. It was so powerful that it caused 5 million tonnes of debris to wash into the Pacific – 1.5 million tonnes remained afloat and started drifting with the currents. One year later, and […]

The universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we’ve only identified 1% of them. Scientists believe undiscovered chemical compounds could help remove greenhouse gases, or trigger a medical breakthrough much like penicillin did. But let’s just get this out there first: it’s not that chemists aren’t curious. Since […]

If you’ve ever used a dating app, you’ve probably experienced the disappointment of meeting someone who doesn’t look quite like their photos. You may have even been a victim of catfishing, where someone creates a fake identity to deceive or scam others online. But what if someone uses your photos to catfish someone else? Setting […]

Yamaha Motoroid 2 self-balancing bike recognizes its owner, and parks autonomously. This Yamaha Motor experimental model achieves a closer relationship between rider and machine in which they resonate harmoniously with each other. Since unveiling the Motoroid in 2017, the Company has continued its R&D into technologies, designs, and more based on that concept. Motoroid 2 […]

How much can the written records of ancient civilisations tell us about the animals they lived alongside? Our latest research, based on the venomous snakes described in an ancient Egyptian papyrus, suggests more than you might think. A much more diverse range of snakes than we’d imagined lived in the land of the pharaohs – […]

NASA’s Psyche mission is off to explore the metal-rich asteroid that may shed light on our own planet’s formation. Watch the Psyche spacecraft launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. NASA and SpaceX are now targeting launch at 10:19 a.m. EDT (1419 UTC) Friday, Oct. 13. The mission […]

Seeing elephants in the wild is a timelessly awe-inspiring experience. There are only three living species today: the African savannah elephant, African forest elephant, and Asian elephant. They are the remnants of a once prosperous lineage of megaherbivores called proboscideans, whose evolutionary epic spanned 60 million years and some 200 species. The African continent was […]

The Ring of Fire: 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse – Live The Ring of Fire: 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse, official NASA broadcast. Watch live as a “ring of fire” eclipse travels across the United States on Oct. 14, 2023, from Oregon to Texas. This event occurs when the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun, […]