Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer
Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer Summary Small electric aircraft — from delivery drones to passenger eVTOLs (electric vertical take-off and…
Chinese Cluster Now World’s Top Innovation Hotspot, UN Says
Chinese Cluster Now World’s Top Innovation Hotspot, UN Says Summary The UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) says the Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou cluster has overtaken Tokyo–Yokohama as the world’s leading innovation…
Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer
Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer Summary Small electric aeroplanes and eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) aircraft are moving from…
These ‘glass straw’ optical fibres could speed up the Internet
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
Sexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food Summary A field trial of Hy-Gain sorghum in eastern Australia will test plants engineered to reproduce by apomixis — producing…
Chinese Cluster Now World’s Top Innovation Hotspot, UN Says
Chinese Cluster Now World’s Top Innovation Hotspot, UN Says – Slashdot Summary The UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has updated its 2025 Global Innovation Index rankings and found that…
Chinese Cluster Now World’s Top Innovation Hotspot, UN Says
Chinese Cluster Now World’s Top Innovation Hotspot, UN Says Summary The UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) says the Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou cluster has overtaken Tokyo–Yokohama as the world’s leading innovation…
Sexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food
Sexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food Summary Researchers are close to creating crop plants that produce clonal (apomictic) seed — effectively bypassing sexual reproduction so a…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections
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 the Sun and separated Solar Energetic…
These ‘glass straw’ optical fibres could speed up the Internet
These ‘glass straw’ optical fibres could speed up the Internet Summary A new hollow-fibre design replaces the usual solid glass core with a system of tiny glass “straws” — five…