Glazed office rises out of the ground with a dramatic tilting form

Rising out of the ground with a dramatic tilting overall form, the recently completed Turbosealtech New Incubator and Office building, by New Wave Architecture, serves as a light-filled office space and business incubator in Iran.

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Cake’s ultra-modular electric bush bike takes aim at poachers

Cake has gotten more serious about stopping African poachers. It has followed up its Kalk AP electric bush bike with an even more versatile, stealthy ebike, the Ösa AP. The new bike is part workbench, part cargo hauler and part off-grid power supply.

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Study suggests that most fishes communicate with sound

We generally don't think of fish as being a vocal bunch – after all, anglers don't typically use "fish calls" to lure them in. According to a new study, however, approximately two-thirds of all fish species probably use sound to communicate.

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InfraredTags embed “invisible” info within 3D-printed objects

Barcode stickers may provide valuable information on products, but they're rather unsightly, and they peel off over time. An experimental new alternative, however, is 3D-printed right into the item, and is invisible to the naked eye.

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The Boulder 2.5 offers a tiny house that’s actually tiny

A lot of so-called tiny houses we see nowadays are anything but, with huge towable apartments quite common. However, with its recently completed Boulder 2.5, Rocky Mountain Tiny Houses has created a tiny house that's actually worthy of the name.

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New technique illuminates micro-cracks in ordinary concrete

Although concrete can be altered in order to help tiny cracks show up before they become catastrophic, scientists have now discovered that regular concrete does the job pretty well itself. It just needs a coat of ordinary paint, and a light source.

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Two new studies join debate over presence of liquid water lake on Mars

Recent studies reported the discovery of lakes of liquid water below the polar ice caps on Mars, but others later refuted the find. Fueling the debate are two new independent studies, which have reached opposite conclusions.

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Zuri tilts to new propulsion system for its next-gen eVTOL air taxi

Czech eVTOL startup Zuri came to our attention last year when it began hover tests of a long-range, hybrid-powered lift and cruise style aircraft. Today, the company unveiled its second-gen design, with a totally different tilting propulsion system.

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Novel “artificial leaf” design ups the carbon capture rate by 100x

"Artificial leaf" systems could play a key role in the fight against climate change, and a team of engineers has just picked up the pace with a solution that captures carbon dioxide at 100 times the rate of current technologies.

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Gordon Murray channels 60s-era glamor with $1.84-million T.33 supercar

Gordon Murray has announced an "accessible" little brother for his extraordinary T.50 supercar. The new T.33 ditches some of the crazier details of the T.50, but retains that awe-inspiring Cosworth V12, even if its banshee shriek stops at 11,100 rpm.

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