Soft corals emerge as source of highly potent anti-cancer compound

A 25-year search for another source of a promising anti-cancer chemical produced by a rare coral species has now started to bear fruit, with the discovery other readily available corals produce the chemical in abundance.

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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft safely touches down in New Mexico

Boeing's Starliner passenger spacecraft has successfully returned to Earth. At 5:49 pm CDT, the uncrewed capsule landed at the US Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico at the end of a six-day mission to the International Space Station.

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Isuzu drops light, versatile Arctic Basecamp camper truck

Isuzu UK used this year's CV Show to introduce the D-Max Arctic Trucks AT35 Basecamp, a highly maneuverable light camper pickup ready to bushwhack through dense forest and burrow through canyons that would stop larger trucks in their tracks.

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Latest version of Elios caged drone gets LiDAR for 3D mapping

Mapping the inside of cramped, difficult-to-reach areas can be helpful to people such as plant operators, but drones flown in such places could easily crash. The LiDAR- and cage-equipped Elios 3 quadcopter was designed with that challenge in mind.

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Huawei announces several data storage advancements, including a new data-centric concept

The company proposes a new method of data storage, as well as some upgrades to its storage platforms. Image: Roman Babakin, Getty Images Chinese telecommunications company Huawei has proposed a…

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