Slashdot highlights a University of Michigan lifecycle study (and accompanying online calculator) that finds electric vehicles produce lower lifetime greenhouse‑gas emissions than comparable petrol cars across powertrains, vehicle classes and…
Liquid-crystal specs refocus with the push of a button Summary Researchers report a way to make spectacles that electronically switch focal strength using liquid-crystal optics, so wearers can toggle between…
32GB of RAM On Track To Become the New Majority For Gamers Summary Steam’s August 2025 hardware survey (reported via Tom’s Hardware) shows 32GB system configurations reached 35.42% of users…
Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer Summary Small electric aircraft and eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) vehicles are moving from…
These ‘glass straw’ optical fibres could speed up the Internet Summary A new hollow-core optical‑fibre design — described in Nature Photonics and reported by Nature — replaces the usual solid…
Sexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food Summary Researchers are on the verge of producing crop plants that make clonal seeds — a form of asexual reproduction…
Liquid-crystal specs refocus with the push of a button Summary Researchers have developed spectacles that can electronically switch their optical power, allowing people who mix near- and far-sighted corrections to…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has traced superfast electrons back to their origins on the Sun and…
Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fibre Summary A University of Southampton / Microsoft-backed team (via Lumenisity) has published research demonstrating a hollow-core fibre (HCF) design with record-low…
New Study Proves EVs Are Always Cleaner Than Gas Cars Content Summary The University of Michigan released a lifecycle greenhouse‑gas analysis and an interactive calculator that compares lifetime emissions (“cradle…
