As older models grow in size with every new generation, this continual super-sizing creates vacuums in certain segments. Volkswagen’s Tiguan, now a big boy, leaves VW without a compact ute for urban commutes. Enter the T-Roc. Surprisingly little changed between the T-Roc concept and the production version. It still sports […]
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A step in the right directionFunctional and Applied Biomechanics Section, Rehabilitation Medicine Dept, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center By Timothy Revell If you are a child with the most common childhood physical disability, cerebral palsy, there is only a 50 per cent chance that you will still be able […]
Reach for the moon – but no rushMoon Express THE deadline for the Google Lunar X Prize has been pushed back once again, from the end of 2017 to 31 March 2018. The competition offers $30 million to the first privately funded venture to land a spacecraft on the moon. […]
Your Gmail photos could soon be held in cold storageGoogle By Matt Reynolds The best way to put your photos on ice is to freeze them. Extremely cold molecules could soon hold hundreds of times more data than existing hard drives. By controlling the magnetism of individual molecules, Nick Chilton […]
No time soonDavid Howells/Corbis via Getty Images By Leah Crane NASA wants you to know it is on a Journey to Mars. For the last few years, the space agency has done everything it can to work those three words into press releases, public statements and YouTube videos. Nearly all […]
We still don’t fully understand how the bacteria inside us affect our healthSteve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library IBM has announced plans to study the human microbiome and its role in autoimmune diseases. We still don’t fully understand how the bacteria inside us affect our health. IBM plans to find out more […]
The Ferrari California got a bad rap. As the least expensive Ferrari available, it was typically derided as a thing of pure style and no substance, meant only for people who want to brag about a badge. But the actual California, and the California T that came after, couldn’t be […]
How much lithium?Lucy Lambriex/Getty By New Scientist staff and Press Association Higher natural levels of lithium in drinking water may protect against Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, according to a study of more than 800,000 people in Denmark – but only at certain concentrations. Lars Vedel Kessing, of the […]