We're a step closer to understanding how energy is spread across the Universe, with the most detailed map of intergalactic magnetism ever produced. It's more than five times larger than all earlier studies combined.
Tags: CSIRO, Space exploration, Planetary Resources, Earth, Magnetic field, Galaxy
Soldiers may soon be doing a bit less pack hauling as the US Department of Defense taps American Rheinmetall and Harbinger to develop a new generation of stealthy, inexpensive, and expendable robotic trucks designed to carry cargo to the battlefield.
Category: Military, Engineering
For nearly 200 years, biologists felt they had a pretty good grasp of the nudibranch genus Thecacera. Consisting of six known species found in marine habitats around the world, these shell-less molluscs seemed as small as small could be, ranging from around half an inch to an inch long.
Tags: Taiwan, Marine Biology, Ocean, Species
Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, Holly Seale, & Md Saiful Islam, UNSW Sydney/ The Conversation
Category: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Sure, space travel sounds exciting, but space travelers are still workers – workers who could ordinarily go to restaurants for lunch or go home for dinner. And while the dining habits of cosmonauts, astronauts, taikonauts, and other void-venturers might seem trivial to us Earth-bound folks who’ll never get to traipse among the stars, space travelers do face serious complications from their truly risky missions in which they sacrifice days, months, or even years away from family, friends, and Earth to expand our knowledge and prepare a multiplanetary future for humanity.
Category: Space Systems, Engineering
Tags: University of Adelaide, University of Nottingham, Nutrition, Food technology, Astronauts, Space Travel, American Chemical Society
One week the world gets shown a glimpse of the future at the launch of the Luce – the first state-of-the-art electric Ferrari – then the next week we get the ultimate retro car, a monstrous five-liter 18-mpg V8 muscle car.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: AC Cars, AC Cobra, Supercars, Retro, Sports Cars
This extra-wide tiny house uses its generous dimensions to create a spacious interior that includes two bedrooms, a practical living area, and some unusually premium touches – as well as a storage-integrated staircase unlike any other we've seen.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Remember Dust Moto? I covered the largely impressive Hightail electric enduro a while back. It looks like the folks at Harley-Davidson’s electric spin-off, LiveWire, took notice, too. The American e-moto maker has just bought Dust Moto.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Harley Davidson, livewire, Electric Motorcycles, Harley, Off-road, Enduro
Christopher Lieu, University of Colorado Anschutz/ The Conversation
Category: Cancer, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Pancreatic cancer, Drugs, Pancreas, Pharmaceuticals
A few years back, South Africa's Bushwakka debuted one of the more creative Toyota Land Cruiser 4x4 micro-campers the world has seen, the Kamelback camper. Though it was built to house only two people, something about the multi-expanding camper module felt like it could easily fit more people. And now it does, as Bushwakka adds the Kamelback 4 to its lineup, fitting a two-bed expandable bunkhouse atop the bare rear chassis of one of the world's most rugged and trustworthy 4x4 platforms to redefine what it means to pack up the whole family and get away from it all.
Category: Expedition Trucks, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Pickup, Toyota, Truck, RV, Off-road, Off-grid, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
Last month, tour guides in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard made a grisly discovery, chancing upon the carcasses of a young male polar bear and an adult walrus in an advanced state of decay. They alerted the authorities, who dispatched experts to collect samples.
Category: Environment, Science
Tags: polar bears, Arctic, H5N1, avian-influenza
If it's ever been your dream to spend 22 hours on a non-stop flight from Sydney to London, then good news: Airbus has announced the maiden flight of the world's longest-range airliner, the Airbus A350-1000ULR, with a range of almost 10,000 nautical miles.
The US has its first and only oral COVID-19 post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) on its way, after a Phase III trial of the drug ensitrelvir met goals required for approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Category: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: FDA, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Drug development, Virus, Transmission
Just recently we covered an adaptive sleeping bag that combines three separate components and can be used across a wide temperature range. Another modular sleeping bag is now seeking funding on Kickstarter – ThermoShift from TravelBird, a Hong Kong-based outdoor gear company that specializes in camping equipment.
Tags: Kickstarter, xxKickbooster, Sleeping Bags, Camping, Modular
Leica has been in the premium imaging business for more than a hundred years. After testing the waters with a few industry partnerships, the iconic brand launched its first smart projector in 2022. Now the range is expanding with the addition of the Cine Compact 1.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Leica, 4K UHD, Laser, Projectors
A deep-sea mystery that has stumped researchers for the past two-and-a-half years has a solution, with marine scientists from NOAA Fisheries and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in the US finally determining the identity of a bizarre “golden orb” recovered from the Pacific in 2023.
Tags: Marine Biology, NOAA, Ocean, jellyfish, Coral
Downsizing to a tiny house always involves compromises, but the Coolangatta 8.4 aims to minimize them with a storage-packed and flexible interior that's well suited to full-time living, on or off-grid.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Fancy driving an off-roader guided by its own remote drone flying ahead to recce the terrain and relay images back to your dashboard screen?
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: GM, GMC, Hummer, Electric Vehicles, Concept Vehicle, Truck, SUV
Kovi Rose, University of Sydney/ The Conversation
Tags: pulsar, Stars, Radio Waves, Signal Processing
Small camping trailers are great for a lot of reasons. They're easier to tow and maneuver than large trailers. They're compatible with a large variety of vehicles, likely including the everyday driver parked in your garage. Less trailer usually means less price tag, and less money spent on gas. The list goes on, but for all those advantages, small trailers usually fall short on one highly critical spec: a bathroom. The latest ROG trailer from Encore RV solves the lack of bathroom issue in a rather bold way, and it's a much better small camper for it.
Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Caravan, trailers, Trailer, RV, Off-road, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Off-grid
