Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production (newatlas.com)
Tire wear and tear revealed as a major contributor to waterway pollution (newatlas.com)
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Sniffing women’s tears reduces male aggression by 44%, study finds (newatlas.com)
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Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand (newatlas.com)
'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed (newatlas.com)
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Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event (Last time this happened, Earth got plants) (newatlas.com)
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Working-age death rate 2.5x higher in the US than other countries (newatlas.com)
Working-age US adults are dying at far higher rates than their peers from high-income countries, even surpassing death rates in Central and Eastern European countries, and midlife mortality rates in the UK are not great either. A new study has examined what’s caused this rise in the death rates of these two cultural...
Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand (newatlas.com)
Unpowered cargo gliders on tow ropes promise 65% cheaper air freight (newatlas.com)
Hookworms successfully prevent type 2 diabetes in human trial (newatlas.com)
Microsoft's glass data storage system saves terabytes for 10,000 years (newatlas.com)
Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production (newatlas.com)
It’s so rare to actually see a new battery tech exit the lab and enter production. Always seems like there’s 10,000 new up and coming breakthroughs in battery technology, but none ever leave the workbench....
Unitree's new G1 humanoid robot is priced at only $16,000, and looks like the type of humanoid robot that could sell in the tens of millions. (newatlas.com)
Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than bluetooth competitor. The us won't benefit from it for now (newatlas.com)
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Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding (newatlas.com)
Cancer vaccine for dogs almost doubles survival rates in clinical trial (newatlas.com)
Plant-based filter removes up to 99.9% of microplastics from water (newatlas.com)
Motorized wheel-on-a-pole sticks it to electric skateboards (newatlas.com)
If you sometimes want an electric boost while skateboarding, but don't want an electric skateboard, then you might like REM. It's essentially a handheld "power stick" that works completely independent of the user's board.
Blue-blocking glasses might not do much of anything, says new review (newatlas.com)
In a study of studies, researchers concluded that eyeglasses that block blue light might not deliver on claims made by advertisers or optometrist offices. They caution consumers to think twice about shelling out the extra cash for the specs....
Retractable Sail Could Give Bikes A Boost Of Wind Power (newatlas.com)
Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding (newatlas.com)
Last year, Monash University scientists created the “DishBrain” – a semi-biological computer chip with some 800,000 human and mouse brain cells lab-grown into its electrodes. Demonstrating something like sentience, it learned to play Pong within five minutes. They allowed the brain cells to act on the paddle, moving it...
Bacterial enzyme strips away blood types to create universal donor blood (newatlas.com)
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Paintball-blasting home security camera redefines 'enter at own risk' (newatlas.com)
A big-thinking Slovenian startup has created a curious smart security camera that doesn’t just spy on your visitors, but will actively open fire on potential intruders with paintball pellets – or even tear gas rounds – with “ultra high precision.” What could possibly go wrong?
China is building a railgun that can hurl crewed spacecraft into orbit (newatlas.com)
Rockets being passé, China is working on using an electromagnetic railgun to launch crewed spacecraft the size of a Boeing 737, weighing 50 tonnes, into orbit. This remarkably ambitious project is even more ambitious than it seems at first glance.
Europe's biggest 3D-printed building rises in just 140 hours (newatlas.com)
