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On the pages of our website we already wrote about building a super fast car Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC), designed to set a new world speed record for ground transportation. As it became known, in 2018 this car will attempt to accelerate up to a speed of 1000 miles per hour, but the first trial…

New research adds weight to the hypothesis that all or at least most of sunlike stars are born in pairs. And our star is located in the center of the Solar system, most likely, also is not an exception. Moreover, some astronomers suspect that the lost twin of the Sun could be one of the…

Operation time is a very important indicator for unmanned aerial vehicles. So, increasingly, the design of these drones are powered by solar panels. Test one of these models was recently conducted by specialists of the Chinese Academy of space aerodynamics (Chinese Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics, CAAA). They have developed a drone capable of speeds up…

Visiting the dentist for many people is a real nightmare. Despite the fact that modern anesthetics allow to almost completely eliminate any unpleasant feelings during the treatment of teeth, many are still afraid to visit dental clinics for various reasons. A team of scientists from the UK conducted an interesting study came to an interesting…

GIF Once known for its quirky remote-controlled robot balls, Sphero parlayed that technology into a massive consumer hit with its Star Wars: The Force Awakens BB-8 toy. As a result, the company has been able to expand beyond the sphere, first with a robotic version of Cars’ Lightning McQueen, and now with an interactive Spider-Man…

Image: Ryan F. Mandelbaum/Brandonng06/Wikimedia Commons Sergio Canavero wants to transplant a head, and we can’t look away. Despite our continued skepticism, he does seem to be making progress. “Seem” being the operative word here, because others still aren’t convinced by the evidence. Canavero and a team of Chinese doctors at Harbin Medical Center have announced…

A large grass fire triggered by a Russian rocket launch on Wednesday has killed one Kazakh man and hospitalized another. According to the AFP, pieces of the rocket fell to Earth after it launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome—the site where Sputnik 1 took off in 1957. Incredibly, the debris set off a fire that spread…

Image: AP A gloomy Tim Cook stalks Bloomberg Businessweek’s cover today, and he has some thoughts. Some thoughts that sound suspiciously like a preamble to a “my fellow Americans” speech. Editor Megan Murphy’s conversation with the Apple CEO isn’t substantively different from the sprawling, 10,000-word interview he conducted with the Washington Post last year—whole paragraphs…

Images: Raphaël Fabre With a stunt that will probably see France initiating changes to its National ID card program, an artist named Raphaël Fabre submitted a photorealistic computer-generated image of himself—and he says it was approved without question. To ensure his CG headshot was as artificial as possible, Fabre told Gizmodo that he modeled it…

Hong KONG – That the land and housing prices in the built-up hong Kong soaring, is generally known. The craziness on the overheated market was given a new dimension, now a businessman willing to turned out to be converted to 595.000 euro down to count for a parking space in the centre. For that money…