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Engineering update on the Tesla ventilator

Some say the sedan body style is on its way out, but Cadillac's upcoming flagship would beg to differ.

We have never been better-equipped to cope with a nationwide quarantine of schoolchildren.

Like all cells in the body, cancerous cells need nutrients and energy to survive, which presents researchers with an opportunity to cut off the supply and slow their spread.

Vanlife I install the Chinese diesel heater in my expedite van

Stratolaunch, the company behind the world's largest plane, has unveiled plans for a hypersonic vehicle it hopes will offer customers a way of rapidly testing advanced flight technologies.

With the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, there have been many who have suggested a good night's sleep as a way to boost your immune system to protect you from the infection. Sleep is vital, and there are several reasons why.

The James Webb Space Telescope has crossed another milestone on the path to its long-awaited launch. NASA engineers have now completed a deployment test, unfurling the telescope's gigantic mirror into the configuration it will take in space.

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A thrifty food blogger has shared how to butter from scratch, as people struggle to get their hands on essentials after coronavirus panic buying left supermarket shelves bare.

For type 1 diabetics, regular injections of insulin are an unfortunate reality of life, necessary to keep their blood-sugar levels in check in lieu of a healthy pancreas.

It might be a 90-pound weakling next to the biggest and baddest of the combustion world, but Evoy's new zero-emissions electric outboard motor and powertrain solution will put it at the pointy end of the all-electric market.

System uses machine learning to offer new way to screen for hard-to-detect cancers

An artificial intelligence can accurately translate thoughts into sentences, at least for a limited vocabulary of 250 words. The system may bring us a step closer to restoring speech to people who have lost the ability because of paralysis.

The Food And Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency authorization Sunday for hydroxychloroquine, a drug already used to treat malaria and other ailments, which has shown anecdotal efficacy against coronavirus.

The change comes after Motherboard found the Zoom iOS app was sending analytics information to Facebook when users opened the app.

BYD Blade Battery leverages safety and improves volumetric energy density. Blade Battery will debut in the BYD Han (June 2020).

It's an EV conversion carried out on the iconic SL R107 from the 1970s.

SpaceX Starship SN3 Prepares To Hop | SpaceX in the News Episode 85. Today we get our hype on for Starship SN3 progress; talk crew dragon updates; look into the upcoming launch manifest, including for Falcon Heavy; and finish with the honorable menti

The SpaceX SN3 Starship is stacked and will have a test hop for 150 meters next week. This is assuming that the pressure tests and other preparations have no issues.

Transient reprogramming, mediated by transient expression of mRNAs, promotes a rapid reversal of both cellular aging and of epigenetic clock in human fibroblasts and endothelial cells...

SpaceX is approved to build 1 MILLION 'user terminals' that will connect people to high-speed internet provided by its satellite constellation

Beats a classroom! From art lessons with the cat to counting with toy cars, parents reveal their VERY creative tricks for making home schooling fun

There is a wonderful 157 part series of short 3 minute or so videos of a few hours of interviews of Freeman Dyson. Dyson talks about his interactions with the giants in physics and science.

The presence of toxic metals in water stemming from industrial sources makes treatment a tall order, with these polluted liquids capable of contaminating groundwater supplies for years or even decades thereafter.

Battery technology is advancing quickly and Tesla seems to be ahead of all others.

Doctors have made four-way and now nine-way valve system to enable one ventilator to service 9 people.

The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship (SHS) will switch from 301 steel alloy to 304L steel alloy for some parts and then a new custom steel alloy.

Aslak Stubsgaard, CTO of Copenhagen Atomics provided an update to Nextbigfuture on their development of a Molten Salt nuclear fission reactor.

It could destroy norovirus, MRSA, virulent strains of E. coli, and coronaviruses--including the novel strain currently causing the COVID-19 pandemic.

US -- Tulsi and Bernie dropped out...On March 19, she made it official, shaming herself and disappointing supporters by endorsing Biden.

Architects show how disused oil rigs could be turned into floating green cities featuring wind turbines, gardens and even waterfalls

The Mariana Trench is the deepest spot in the world's oceans and only a handful of people have been there.

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese doctor claims he made a breakthrough in coronavirus pandemic with stem cell injections - having 100% success rate after treating nine mostly elderly patients

TED Fellow and urban designer Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for sustainable, organic architecture: eco-friendly abodes grown from plants and -- wait for it -- meat.

SpaceX has successfully launched and deployed another batch of 60 Starlink satellites.

Fast enough for highway use, better acceleration than most cars, and more than enough range for the avg person's daily commutes.

As countries face shortages of important medical equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic, makers are desperately trying to fill the gaps with open source designs.

There are many tools cancer relies on to survive and thrive, and therefore many possibilities when it comes to thwarting its advances.

Computers can already boast superhuman sensory abilities in sight and hearing, but smell has been much more difficult.

Back in January, China's EHang aced the first flight in the US of its two-seat autonomous air taxi. Now the company has agreed to develop the first Urban Air Mobility pilot program in Seville, Spain.

PEPPER to illustrate how soap keeps germs away

Tesla hints at the capability to produce enough Solar Roof tiles for up to 1,000 homes per week.

A Lesson from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Elon Musk indicated that the SpaceX Starship is designed to be relaunched within one hour of landing. SpaceX Starship could have three launches in one day.

We are now hearing reports that the case numbers are dropping precipitously in Wuhan and by extension elsewhere. This could only be possible if treatment became highly effective. All this on Vitamin C which is what i have been saying all along. W

Not only are herniated discs painful and debilitating, but treatments for them leave something to be desired. A new technique, however, may be more effective than anything that's come before.

Why would a company that made a big splash with a wheel-less, hitch-mounted camper pull a complete about-face and add wheels?

As ships travel the seas, an assortment of barnacles, mussels, algae and other greeblies accumulate on their hulls. This is definitely troublesome, which is why a new robot-based system has been developed as a possible solution.

New vs. old version electrics go head-to-head.