Innovation
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World’s largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up
The world’s largest and most advanced tokamak fusion reactor has gone online as the EU/Japanese 370-tonne JT-60SA reactor was fired…
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Beyond X rooftop hub tent doubles livable volume of Jeep below
Danish camping company Fjordsen first came to our attention in 2020 with its extra-colorful inflatable rooftop tent. This year, it…
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Regular ketamine use found to restructure the brain’s dopamine system
Researchers have mapped the whole brain of mice, revealing how regular ketamine use produces divergent changes in specific areas of…
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Split-chemistry battery boosts BMW iX all-electric range to 608 miles
Last year, BMW and Michigan startup Our Next Energy (ONE) announced a partnership to test the latter’s Gemini battery system…
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“Mad Mike” unveils world’s first 5-rotor Wankel in wild drift car
Internal combustion engines have still got a few punches left in them. Case in point: Kiwi drifter “Mad Mike” Whiddett…
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Key chemical found at the edge of galaxy suggests alien life is common
Phosphorus – a key ingredient for life as we know it – was thought to be relatively rare in space.…
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Key marine species turned off sex by plastic chemicals
A new study has found that chemical additives in everyday plastic might be stopping – or, at best, interrupting –…
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In a first, human study shows how dopamine teaches our brain new tricks
For the first time, dopamine regulation has been mapped in real time, deep inside the brains of three humans, revealing…
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Motorized Hyperdolly gets cameras moving for slick dolly shots
Handheld gimbal stabilizers are all very well and good, but for really classy-looking cine camera movements, nothing beats a wheeled…
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Sexism Is Everywhere
Sexism is everywhere in workplaces, from people’s expectations about how women look and act to companies’ inadequate or unfair parental…
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