How the EV skateboard chassis was born
Former GM CEO Rick Wagoner challenged his company's R&D operations to reinvent the automobile. The skateboard was a team effort, says Larry Burns, who ran the automaker's R&D and planning from 1998 to 2009......»»
Half of US Adults Exposed To Harmful Lead Levels As Kids
Over 170 million U.S.-born people who were adults in 2015 were exposed to harmful levels of lead as children, a new study estimates. The Associated Press reports: Researchers used blood-lead level, census and leaded gasoline consumption data to exami.....»»
The best dating apps for hooking up, serious relationships, and everything else in between
Online dating is now the norm. "We met on Tinder" is the new "we met in a bar." And this isn't going to change any time soon.Countless children have been born to parents who met via an online dating app like Match or eharmony, and according to eharmo.....»»
New calf joins endangered southern resident orcas; 2 other pregnancies lost
A new calf was born to J pod of the southern resident orcas, Center for Whale Research director Ken Balcomb confirmed Tuesday morning......»»
Microscopic view on asteroid collisions could help us understand planet formation
A new way of dating collisions between asteroids and planetary bodies throughout our Solar System's history could help scientists reconstruct how and when planets were born......»»
Polestar shows off the aluminum EV platform for its new flagship
The four-door coupe is based on the Polestar Precept concept car. Enlarge / A Polestar 5 chassis being wheeled around Polestar's R&D center. (credit: Polestar) At some point this year, we expect to see Polestar's next electric.....»»
Lian Li unveils SFF chassis supporting triple slot GPU, 240mm radiator
The Lian Li A4H2O is an 11-liter small-form-factor chassis developed in collaboration with DAN Cases. Based on the A4-SFX, the A4H2O supports Mini-ITX motherboards and can accommodate up to a triple slot GPU as well as a 240mm radiator for liquid coo.....»»
NZXT launches H1 V2 chassis with improved internals, materials
The NZXT H1 V2 has made its debut with an increased size to accommodate larger GPUs and improved airflow. It comes with a 750W PSU and an AIO cooler preinstalled......»»
The Brutal Reason Some Primates Are Born a Weird Color
When species have babies with conspicuous fur, it can attract good attention—or bad. A new theory could explain why......»»
It"s not the end of the world... yet
NOTE FOR 2022 READERS: This is the 19th in a series of award-winning open letters to the next century, now just one generation away. Babies born this year in the U.S., and more than 60 other countries, are expected to live to 2100 and beyond. Dear 22.....»»
Even dying stars can still give birth to planets
Planets are usually not much older than the stars around which they revolve. Take the sun: It was born 4.6 billion years ago, and not long after that, Earth developed. But KU Leuven astronomers have discovered that a completely different scenario is.....»»
Blindbot Is Like A Guide Dog, Without The Dog
Imagine for a moment that you could hold a guide dog’s leash and feel the tug in the right direction, or notification to halt, all without having to care for a dog? That’s effectively what Blindbot produces. Born out of Makerspace ETH Zu.....»»
Housework or sleep? Study says it depends when you were born
When Gen Xer Amy Rottier went shopping for her young children two decades ago, she drove to a mall and browsed for what she needed. Her millennial daughter, Helen, who is studying for a doctorate and doesn't have children, buys anything she needs wit.....»»
Covid-19 Infection Can Reactivate the Latent Retroviruses In Human DNA
He Who Has No Name writes: In a synopsis posted Monday, John Hewitt at Phys.org points out some fairly unsettling implications of an ugly trick by Covid-19 (more formally, SARS-CoV-2) -- it wakes up latent viruses that we are born with in our DNA. A.....»»
NASA Celebrates Private Sector Deployments of Space-born Tech in Its Latest Spinoff
An anonymous reader shares a report: NASA's Spinoff magazine is one of the things I look forward to reading every year. The space agency's research trickles down to the rest of the world in surprising and interesting ways, which it tracks and collect.....»»
Extraordinary black hole found in neighboring galaxy
Astronomers have discovered a black hole unlike any other. At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes we have found at the centers of galaxies, but bigger than the black holes that are born when stars explode. This makes.....»»
Rahul Sood’s Irreverent Labs unveils MechaFight Club NFT game
Irreverent Labs aims to change the game industry with some very fancy looking chickens. Born from the mind of Voodoo PC founder Rahul Sood, the Seattle-based blockchain game company has unveiled its first game: MechaFightClub. The characters are mech.....»»
When You Finish Saving the World Review
The below is an advance review out of the Sundance Film Festival, where When You Finish Saving the World made its world premiere.When You Finish Saving the World feels born from the rib of its writer-director Jesse Eisenberg, an extension of the ling.....»»
Astronomers shed new light on birth of stars and galaxies
A star is born—but how? Astronomers are unravelling the mysteries of how clouds of gas ignite to become stars and form spiral galaxies near our own......»»
Apple’s 2022 iPad will keep old design with 5G and A14 chip
The 10th-generation vanilla iPad slated to debut later this year will bring an arguably new A14 Bionic chip and 5G support to a chassis reminiscent of the 2014 model......»»
Hybrid fish raised in nature have fewer "mismatched" genes than those in lab
You're likely familiar with the idea of the sterile mule: a hybrid animal born of a horse and a donkey that is unable to breed......»»