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Cirrus introduces G3 Vision Jet with expanded cabin and flight deck upgrades

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Cirrus Aircraft Ltd. in Duluth, Minn., has introduced the Generation 3 Vision Jet, the latest version of its single-engine personal jet,...

Wood scraps turn ‘useless’ desert sand into concrete

A team of researchers based in Norway and Japan might soon have you walking on desert sand, no matter how far from the dunes...

Velocitor X-1 eVTOL could be beating the traffic in just a year

3D commuting, that’s the dream. Soaring over stopped traffic in a lightweight, quiet, safe personal eVTOL aircraft. The Velocitor X-1 joins a growing list...

Giant 5-ton eVTOL just aced a tricky flight test

Multinational aviation company AutoFlight says its Matrix aircraft is the first 5-ton eVTOL on the planet – and it’s just completed a public full-transition...

Split-wing aircraft gets new propulsion system

Horizon Aircraft’s Cavorite X7 already sported a radical design, even within the wild world of hybrid eVTOLs. That design has now been updated, however,...

SpaceX unveils ‘Stargaze’ space tracking system

WASHINGTON — SpaceX today unveiled an online tool, called Stargaze, for tracking space objects and warning of potential on-orbit collisions — with a promise...

Small modular nuclear reactors could cut commercial shipping emissions

Nuclear power isn’t just for naval ships anymore as demonstrated by the Nuclear Propulsion in merchant Shipping (NuProShip II) project led by the Norwegian...

How underwater 3D printing could soon transform maritime construction

There are all kinds of critical infrastructure lying beneath the surface of our oceans – road and rail tunnels connecting land masses, pipelines for...

Remarkable sodium-ion battery has a heart of ‘wood’

A team at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS) has developed a new type of sodium-ion battery that uses lignin as...

Distant entangled atoms acting as one sensor deliver stunning precision

Entanglement is often described as one of the most mysterious effects in quantum physics. When two quantum objects are entangled, measurements performed on them...

This extreme-heat-resistant drone will change firefighting forever

Firefighters could soon have a formidable ally in their daunting task of entering buildings set ablaze: specialized drones that can handle the heat from...

Newly discovered material conducts heat nearly 3x faster than any metal

Data center servers, powerful smartphones, and your computer’s motherboard have one thing in common. When these devices get too hot, their performance takes a...

Scientists just put a powerful computer inside a single thread

Imagine a shirt that feels like any other, but could feed you real-time information about your health and surroundings, heat up and cool down...

Scientists Find a Way To Make CO2 a Valuable Fuel Source

Researchers from Yale and the University of Missouri report that catalysts made with manganese can efficiently convert carbon dioxide into formate. Manganese is a...

This Breakthrough Image Sensor Lets Scientists See Tiny Details From Far Away

A new lens-free imaging system uses software to see finer details from farther away than optical systems ever could before. Imaging technology has reshaped how...

World’s most powerful hypergravity machine is 1,900X stronger than Earth

China has eclipsed its own – and the US – record, building a monster underground hypergravity centrifuge that can model scenarios with 1,900 times...