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Peugeot has launched its first ever electric GTi with an image of the new car alongside a 40-year-old Peugeot GTi. Not many new car launches would be so brazenly retro. Aren’t EVs bought by forward-looking motorists rather than lovers of the past?Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags:

For years, DJI's Osmo Pocket has been the default choice for creators who want cinematic-quality video in a compact, stabilized package. DJI didn't just define the pocket gimbal camera, it owned it, almost without competition. That has just changed, with Insta360 and Leica jointly launching the Luna Ultra.Continue ReadingCategory: Consumer Tech, TechnologyTags:

Kawasaki just did the unpredictable. Just when most of us thought the era of two strokes was over, the Japanese bikemaker has just released its first big two-stroker in more than two decades.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: Kawasaki,

The world's largest earthworks, millions of work hours, and huge sums of money have all gone into pursuing the dream of a supertall mirrored desert city in Saudi Arabia. However, a recent report suggests it might all turn out to be a mirage.Continue ReadingCategory: Architecture, EngineeringTags:

Australia's camper vans generally pale in comparison to its bombproof off-road camper trailers. But if there's one name building camper vans fit to be hitched in towing tandems with the likes of the Track Tvan and Mosfab Cosmos, it's Trakka. The Sydney-area builder has a long history of turning Volkswagen's variably-sized vans into Outback-ready expedition machines. Now it focuses its attention on turning the T7 Transporter, VW's newest van, into a more versatile, rugged California-style camper van with an options sheet that trumps VW's own. And this time around, it adds a whole new twist.

Three years ago, a single “ghost particle” soared into the Mediterranean with more energy than any ever observed before.Continue ReadingCategory: Astronomy, ScienceTags: Neutrino, Quasar,

New research is offering a dramatic new way to read Dante Alighieri’s Inferno: not simply as a religious vision of Hell, but as an early attempt to imagine the effects of a catastrophic planetary impact.Continue ReadingCategory: Astronomy, ScienceTags: Asteroid, Impact,

Lightship is part of the new guard of Silicon Valley-based high-tech electric camper builders. It became one of the first self-powered trailer pioneers to market when it began production of its AE.1 telescoper last summer. Now it's launching a different type of self-driving, battery-bulked electric trailer, one that could have an even bigger impact on how the world tows. The all-new Powersled is a simpler cargo trailer based on a chassis outright overflowing with lithium battery power. It shoulders thousands of pounds, then serves as a mobile power station on arrival.

Neil Mabbott, University of Edinburgh/ The ConversationContinue ReadingCategory: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body and MindTags: Vaccines, Coronavirus (COVID-19),

In a new MIT study – in partnership with Purdue, Northwestern, and Duke universities – chemists have discovered that inserting weaker bonds into polystyrene actually makes the material more resistant to damage.Continue ReadingCategory: Materials, EngineeringTags: