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Airbus is known to many as various Airliners and other aircraft. However, she is engaged and shipping, and specially for these purposes there was created the subdivision Airseas. It recently introduced a very interesting development: smart sail that can make sea travel more energy efficient and at the same time to reduce the pollution of…

Illustration: Hudson Hongo (Photo: Getty) Since the dawn of time, human beings have been covering their naughty bits with flora—or at least that’s what the classicist motif of putting fig leaves over nudity would have you believe. This age-old practice recently saw a social media resurgence, with dozens of Facebook users posting their own semi-nude…

Soyuz MS-01 docked to the ISS in 2016Photo: NASA (Flickr) A tiny hole in a Soyuz spacecraft attached to the International Space Station has turned into a strange game of international telephone. Scientists immediately determined that the pressure leak in the capsule attached to the ISS, first detected on August 30, wasn’t a big deal—the…

The entrance to Blombos Cave in the southern Cape of South Africa.Image: Magnus Haaland Dubbed L13, the drawing was found in South Africa’s Blombos Cave, a fruitful Middle Stone Age archaeological site that has produced some of the oldest evidence of human cultural activity. Many of the artifacts found in the cave, such as bone…

Screenshot: Spotify Spotify has finally addressed what is, for many users, the biggest problem with its service. On Wednesday, it lifted the number of songs that users are allowed to download for offline listening. Last night something weird happened to me. I was sleepily listening to music, and adding some albums to my Spotify library,…

HeadphonesMaster & Dynamic MW07 HeadphonesMaster & Dynamic MW07 MW07 What is it? Truly wireless earbuds Cost $300 Like Exceptionally good sound quality No lilke Bad battery life, big price It’s not the look that impressed me most about the new Master & Dynamic earbuds. The audio quality is terrific for something so small. I’ve tried…

Image: Make it Kenya/Flickr An international consortium involving over 50 institutions has announced an ambitious project to assemble high-quality genome sequences of all 66,000 vertebrate species on Earth, including all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. With an estimated total cost of $600 million dollars, it’s a project of biblical proportions. It’s called the Vertebrate…

One year after the release of the iPhone X, Apple has returned in 2018 to completely revamp its entire phone lineup with multiple new handsets based on last year’s $1,000 flagship: So say hello to the iPhone Xs. But that’s not all, because this year, Apple’s flagship has a super-sized sibling in the new iPhone…