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Hyundai’s Genesis unveils the Mint, its vision for a teeny electric luxury car. The concept vehicle is designed to be a “city car” that can squeeze through the narrow alleys and dense traffic of packed urban centers. https://cnn.it/2GrFSDv

Deep inside Earth, scientists find weird blobs and mountains taller than Mount Everest

Posted by Xavier Rosseel in mapping

Apr 23
2019

The emerging picture of our planet’s innards is a “complete revolution.”

Scientists are mapping a remarkable landscape of blobs, plumes, and a metal ocean deep inside the Earth. Rost-9D / Getty Images/iStockphoto.

NASA’s “Hive” Drones Can Deploy Swarms of Tiny Robot Cicadas

Posted by Genevieve Klien in drones, robotics/AI

Apr 23
2019

For now, the swarms don’t fly as much as they fall with style.

CRISPR gene-editing creates wave of exotic model organisms

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical, genetics

Apr 23
2019

But the practical challenges of breeding and maintaining unconventional lab animals persist.

Solar power now comes in the form of a flower

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in solar power, sustainability

Apr 23
2019

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Forget rooftop panels. This is the next generation of solar power.

Woman wakes up from vegetative state after 28 years

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in neuroscience

Apr 23
2019

A woman has regained full consciousness after 28 years in a vegetative state. Munira Abdulla suffered a severe brain injury a car crash in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 1991 – when she was 32. “I never gave up on her because I always had a feeling that one day she will wake up,” her son Omar Webair.

‘Marsquake’: first tremor detected on Red Planet

Posted by Quinn Sena in space

Apr 23
2019

Scientists said Tuesday they might have detected the first known seismic tremor on Mars in a discovery that could shed light on the ancient origins of Earth’s neighbour.

A dome-shaped probe known as SEIS landed on the surface of Mars in December after hitching a ride on NASA’s InSight spacecraft.

Its instruments measure surface vibrations caused by weather but are also capable of detecting movement from deep within the planet—so called “marsquakes”—or those caused by meteorite impacts.