Twenty years after Michelin introduced the Tweel, airless tyre prototypes still haven’t reached mainstream passenger cars. Reports (via Jalopnik) and Michelin’s own testing highlight several persistent issues: airless designs tend…
How Maclaren Racing Gets From the Browser to the Track Summary At Google’s “There’s No Place Like Chrome” event, Dr Lisa Jarman of McLaren Racing explains how the team blends…
A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection Summary A brain–computer interface (BCI) implanted with microelectrodes in the motor cortex can decode people’s internal speech in near real time.…
Daily briefing: Why some places on our bodies heal without scars Summary This Nature Briefing (13 August 2025) highlights several short science stories: new research showing why some body sites…
.NET 10 preview out now, likely to be near feature-complete Summary Microsoft has published Preview 7 of .NET 10 for the runtime and frameworks. Key additions include a new WebSocketStream…
Who made the demo list for Trump’s fast-track nuclear reactor scheme? Summary America’s Department of Energy (DoE) has selected ten private firms to participate in its Reactor Pilot Programme, an…
Summary Twenty years after Michelin introduced the Tweel concept, airless tyres remain uncommon on passenger cars. The Slashdot post (linking to a Jalopnik piece) summarises why: prototypes so far transmit…
Levitating platform could ride sunlight into the ‘ignorosphere’ Content summary Researchers report a centimetre-scale, nano-engineered perforated sheet that can levitate when illuminated with light of intensity comparable to natural sunlight.…
Octopus motion in the ocean tracked by a deep-sea 3D camera Summary The EyeRIS light-field camera system captures near real-time 3D visual data of deep-sea animals, enabling reconstruction of structure…
Watch rappelling robots dive into a lava tube — for science Summary Researchers tested a team of three autonomous robots in a lava tube on Lanzarote, Spain, to demonstrate a…
