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First road-going Volta Zero electric cargo truck prototypes in production

Volta Trucks has reached another milestone in its plans to get purpose-built 16-tonne electric haulers onto city streets. Production of the first road-going Volta Zero prototypes has begun at a bespoke facility in Coventry, UK.

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India’s Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine 77.8% effective, Lancet study finds

A new study in The Lancet is offering the first peer-reviewed and published data on the efficacy of Covaxin, a COVID-19 vaccine developed in India. The vaccine was 77.8 percent effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 in a Phase 3 clinical trial.

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Injection of “dancing molecules” gets paralyzed mice walking in 4 weeks

Spinal cord injuries are among the most debilitating. In a new breakthrough study, Northwestern University researchers have developed a gel containing “dancing molecules” that allowed paralyzed mice to walk again four weeks after a single injection.

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Experimental RNA therapy harnesses immune system to fight COVID-19

A new kind of COVID-19 treatment is designed to stimulate the body’s immune defenses and fight off a coronavirus infection at its earliest stages. In preclinical animal tests a synthetic RNA molecule helped mice effectively clear the virus.

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Marty McFly’s $500,000 Hoverboard and the most expensive movie weapon ever

2021 is proving as big year for both the science fiction genre and movie memorabilia. This week Marty McFly's Hoverboard from "Back To The Future Part II" sold for $501,200, while Captain Kirk's Phaser Rifle from "Star Trek" fetched $615,000.

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Going to Mars is hard: Lessons from Mariner 9

Fifty years ago this weekend, NASA's Mariner 9 probe went into orbit around Mars. This pioneering mission revolutionized our ideas about Mars and, with humans looking to head that way, is a timely reminder of just how utterly inhospitable a place it is.

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Bike-mounted Air device monitors air quality along cyclists’ routes

Because many cyclists ride all over town, they encounter a wide range of air quality – more so than could be monitored by stationary sensors. The bar-mounted Air was designed with that in mind, as it measures the air quality while its user pedals.

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Big-wheeled DirtySixer AllRoad Mark II fills a tall order

If you were taller than average, and had a bicycle made to fit your body size, regular 700C/29-inch wheels would be disproportionately small. That's where the DirtySixer AllRoad Mark II comes in, as it features huge 36-inch wheels.

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Three-wheeled electric cargo hauler with hot-swap batteries to debut in LA

Riding on the back of a US$400 million investment from Luxembourg's GEM Global Yield, startup Biliti Electric is looking to bring the GMW Taskman three-wheeled electric delivery vehicle to the US, debuting at AutoMobility LA on November 17.

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