A great white shark is a masterwork of evolutionary engineering. These beautiful predators glide effortlessly through the water, each slow, deliberate sweep of the powerful tail driving a body specialised for stealth, speed and efficiency….
Bose Ultra Open Earbuds: They weren’t the first clip-on earbuds, but Bose’s Ultra Open Earbuds really kickstarted this sub-genre of true-wireless earbuds. They’re somewhat overpriced, but otherwise, there’s a lot to like about them, including a…
A psychologist at the University of Houston is providing guidance to improve the mental health of victims of sexual violence, recognized by major health organizations as a public health crisis with serious implications on victims’ physical,…
At a site overlooking the Danjiangkou Reservoir in central China, archaeologists uncovered stone tools so small and finely worked that they’d be easy to overlook. Closer inspection showed that some of the tools had once been attached to…
A growing recall of specialty date-sweetened chocolates is now affecting more products across the U.S., after testing found possible Salmonella contamination.
Researchers at the University of Kansas have shown the National Severe Storms Laboratory’s Warn-on-Forecast System (WoFS) has potential to help weather forecasters issue warnings to emergency managers and the general public well before tornado…
Engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are testing how insider actions could disrupt passive safety systems in next-generation nuclear reactors before those designs are built and licensed.
Passive safety…
Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometres per second, just over double Earth’s speed around the Sun.
Imagine if it had…
Mike Oitzman is Senior Editor of WTWH’s Robotics Group and founder of the Mobile Robot Guide. Oitzman is a robotics industry veteran with 25-plus years of experience at various high-tech companies in the roles of marketing, sales and…
Digital payments, online banking, investment apps, and automated credit assessments have become routine parts of our everyday financial lives. A study in the International Journal of Business Information Systems argues that, because of this, the…
