If Dilophosaurus ran the 100-meter against Usain Bolt, who would win?
Eight-time Olympic gold medalist would beat the Jurassic beast by a good 2 seconds. Enlarge / University of Toledo physicist Scott Lee came up with the exercise to inspire undergrads in his introductory physics course. (credit: Aurich.....»»
3D Printed Home Technologies Scaling Up Around the World
The construction industry eyes 3D printing to build affordably and rapidly—and for the next few billion In December 2020, Larsen & Toubro Construction in India 3D-printed a concrete, ground+1, 65-square-meter model residential building a.....»»
New dating techniques reveal Australia"s oldest known rock painting, and it"s a kangaroo
A two-meter-long painting of a kangaroo in Western Australia's Kimberley region has been identified as Australia's oldest intact rock painting......»»
Choices might spark sales of Chevy Bolt
GM thinks it has differentiated the Bolt EUV from its smaller sibling just enough to address some of the shortfalls that have held back the Bolt EV. The strategy has worked with the Buick Encore and Encore GX and the Chevy Trax and Trailblazer......»»
Chevy will pay charging-station installation costs for 2022 Bolt EV buyers
If you're looking to buy a new electric car, but don't have a place to plug it in, Chevy's got you covered. It's paying for home-charging outlets for EV buyers......»»
Modified Laser Cutter Fabricates a Ready to Fly Drone
This bolt-on system creates a drone that can fly straight out of your fabricator It’s been very cool to watch 3D printers and laser cutters evolve into fairly common tools over the last decade-ish, finding useful niches across research, .....»»
3-D model shows off the insides of a giant permafrost crater
Researchers from the Oil and Gas Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and their Skoltech colleagues have surveyed the newest known 30-meter deep gas blowout crater on the Yamal Peninsula, which formed in the summer of 2020. The paper.....»»
GM unveils a refreshed Chevy Bolt EV and its bigger, yet compact crossover sibling
GM revealed Sunday a refreshed Chevrolet Bolt EV and a new, bigger — yet still compact — crossover called the Chevrolet Bolt EUV as part of the automaker’s goal to introduce 30 electric vehicles in the next four years. The vehicles, which a.....»»
The First Battery-Powered Tanker is Coming to Tokyo
The "e5" vessel will use only lithium-ion batteries to ply Japan's coastline A new ship powered only by lithium-ion batteries is coming to Japan’s coastline. The 60-meter-long tanker will be the first all-electric vessel of its kind when it l.....»»
Chevy updates, expands Bolt EV family as price drops
Chevrolet, aiming to make EVs more mainstream, is reducing the base price of the freshened Bolt by $5,500 and covering the cost to install chargers at buyers' homes as it gives the car its first major updates, while adding a more spacious crossover v.....»»
Chevrolet gives the Bolt EV a facelift, a stretch, and a price cut
There are new front seats, and the 2022 Bolt EV starts at $31,995. On the left is the 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV. On the right, the 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EV, which has a new look......»»
Hot nano-chisel used to create artificial bones in a Petri dish
Scientists detail a system allowing them to sculpt, in a biocompatible material, the exact structure of the bone tissue, with features smaller than the size of a single protein -- a billion times smaller than a meter......»»
Cajoo promises grocery deliveries in 15 minutes
Meet Cajoo, a new French startup that has raised a $7.3 million (€6 million) funding round. The company wants to make it easier to order groceries from your phone and receive them 15 minutes later. It is launching in Paris today. “I left Bolt aro.....»»
The Arctic Ocean was covered by a shelf ice and filled with freshwater
The Arctic Ocean was covered by up to 900-meter-thick shelf ice and was filled entirely with freshwater at least twice in the last 150,000 years. This surprising finding, reported in the latest issue of the journal Nature, is the result of long-term.....»»
Next Apple and Samsung smartwatches could feature non-invasive blood glucose monitoring
Conditions such as type 1 diabetes, which affects this writer, require checking blood glucose levels many times every day. It usually involves pricking a finger using a lancet and placing a drop of blood in a glucose meter—a process that causes mar.....»»
NASA has a new dish for talking to spacecraft in the far reaches of space
NASA is upgrading the network it uses to communicate with craft in deep space, with a new 34-meter-wide dish in Spain which has just been added......»»
This "snake robot" can fix pipelines on the ocean floor
Eelume is a six-meter-long, snake-like robot that will maintain oil and gas pipelines deep beneath the sea......»»
Bolt Mobility launching into 48 new markets after snapping up Last Mile’s assets
Bolt Mobility, the Miami-based micromobility startup co-founded by Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, is expanding to 48 new markets after acquiring the assets of Last Mile Holdings. Bolt Mobility’s rise and Last Mile’s demise captures the.....»»
The Arctic Ocean Is Teeming With Microfibers From Clothes
Scientists find an average of 40 microplastic particles per cubic meter of the northern water. The likely source? The synthetic clothing in our washing machines......»»
Bolt surges with new markets, attention
GM ramped up promotional efforts for the only electric vehicle it currently sells in the U.S. in preparation for the wave of EVs it has coming......»»
Periodic and phase-locked modulation in the pulsar PSR B1929+10 investigated with FAST
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and elsewhere have conducted single-pulse observations of a pulsar known as PSR B1929+10. Results of the monitoring campaig.....»»