Collaborative tech lets drones work together to lift heavy loads

While aerial drones do show promise as a means of urban parcel delivery, their small size will limit them to carrying relatively light packages. An experimental new system, however, lets multiple drones team up to hoist heftier items.

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Five people and a cat can squeeze into this compact tiny house

French firm Baluchon always manages to fit a lot of living space into its tiny houses, but its latest model can somehow sleep an impressive five people – plus a cat – in a home measuring just 6 m (19.6 ft) in length.

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Barnes & Noble taps Lenovo for design of new Nook tablet

Barnes & Noble has joined forces with Lenovo to relaunch its 10.1-inch tablet, offering a "best of both worlds" reading experience, with access to millions of ebooks through the B&N app as well as everything you'd expect from a modern budget tablet.

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Ryuger goes to production with its outrageous Eidolon carbon ebike

The Ryuger Eidolon, out of Western Australia, is a super-aerodynamic carbon monocoque ebike that looks like a street racer but is actually a full-suspension commuter with some light off-road ambitions. And it's an absolute eye-popper.

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Glow of “cosmic web” filaments directly imaged for the first time

On a scale that’s hard to fathom, the universe is structured like a “cosmic web." Astronomers have now directly observed light from filaments in this web, by staring at a patch of sky with a deep-field telescope to detect faint dwarf galaxies.

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White button mushroom extract suppresses prostate cancer growth in mice

Scientists continue to search for increasingly powerful drugs to take on cancer cells and inhibit tumor growth, and nature continues to provide them with rich source of inspiration, with the latest example coming from white button mushrooms.

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Ultralight Watt Porsche 356-inspired electric coupe transcends time

Watt Electric Vehicle Company presents a light, nimble electric coupe that looks like a classic Porsche 356 A. It slides its skateboard chassis below a house-developed composite body styled after the 1956 Porsche and calls it the WEVC Coupe.

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Conductive hydrogel could find use in soft robotics and more

Ordinarily, if you want to build a device that's highly electrically conductive, you have to use rigid metals. Now, however, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have created a soft and flexible material that fits the bill.

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Prehistoric “eagle shark” combined traits of sharks and rays

The whale shark and the manta ray are perhaps two of the ocean's most fascinating large fishes. Well, scientists have now announced the discovery of a prehistoric ancestor of both, that looked like a cross between the two.

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Hisense promises cinema-like viewing with latest 4K UST projector

If you want big screen entertainment in your home but don't want a huge TV dominating a room, ultra-short-throw projectors offer a tidy alternative. The latest 4K UST projector to be released by China's Hisense is the L5F Laser Cinema.

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