Why Cars Still Don’t Have Airless Tires, Yet
Why Cars Still Don’t Have Airless Tyres, Yet Content summary Twenty years after Michelin introduced the Tweel, airless tyre designs still haven’t become mainstream for passenger cars. While they promise…
How Maclaren Racing Gets From the Browser to the Track
How McLaren Racing Gets From the Browser to the Track Summary In an interview at Google’s “There’s No Place Like Chrome” event, Dr Lisa Jarman of McLaren Racing explains how…
.NET 10 preview out now, likely to be near feature-complete
.NET 10 preview out now, likely to be near feature-complete Summary Microsoft has published Preview 7 of .NET 10. The release brings several developer-facing improvements — most notably a new…
Why Cars Still Don’t Have Airless Tires, Yet
Why Cars Still Don’t Have Airless Tyres, Yet Summary Twenty years after Michelin introduced the Tweel in 2005, airless tyre designs have not displaced pneumatic tyres on passenger cars. Michelin’s…
Mysterious coffee species turns out to be a blend
Mysterious coffee species turns out to be a blend Summary Detailed genetic and morphological analysis shows that the coffee variety commonly called liberica is actually three distinct Coffea species. The…
Brain editing now ‘closer to reality’: the gene-altering tools tackling deadly disorders
Brain editing now ‘closer to reality’: the gene-altering tools tackling deadly disorders Summary Recent advances in gene-editing technologies — notably prime editing and base editing, offshoots of CRISPR — have…
Why Cars Still Don’t Have Airless Tires, Yet
Why Cars Still Don’t Have Airless Tyres, Yet Summary The Slashdot post links to a Jalopnik deep dive on why airless tyre concepts (like Michelin’s 2005 Tweel) still haven’t displaced…
Why Cars Still Don’t Have Airless Tires, Yet
Why Cars Still Don’t Have Airless Tires, Yet Key Points • Airless designs (like Michelin’s Tweel from 2005) promised to eliminate many puncture-related tyre disposals, but they haven’t reached mainstream…
Why Cars Still Don’t Have Airless Tires, Yet
Why Cars Still Don’t Have Airless Tyres, Yet Summary Twenty years after Michelin introduced the Tweel, airless tyre designs remain largely absent from passenger cars. The Slashdot post links to…
New Type of Supernova Detected as Black Hole Causes Star To Explode
New Type of Supernova Detected as Black Hole Causes Star To Explode Summary Astronomers report what appears to be a new type of supernova produced when a black hole in…