World’s fastest camera captures 70 trillion frames per second

All previous records absolutely pale in comparison to the new record holder for the world’s fastest camera, boasting a mind-boggling rate of 70 trillion frames per second. That’s fast enough to capture light waves in movement.

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World-first “impossible” rotating detonation engine fires up

A Florida team working with the US Air Force says that it's built and tested an experimental model of a rotating detonation rocket engine, which uses a spinning series of chaotic explosions inside a ring channel to create super-efficient thrust.

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Newly discovered parasitic fungus blocks malaria infecting mosquitoes

A newly discovered microbe identified in wild mosquito populations in Kenya has been found to protect the insects from malaria infection and could be recruited for malaria control strategies to limit transmission of the disease into human populations.

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Viruses gleaned from healthy feces fight obesity in mice

Scientists exploring new treatments for obesity have found that implanting virus particles gleaned from the feces of lean mice into mice on a high-fat diet curtailed weight gain and progression of a precursor of type 2 diabetes.

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Boeing presents first Loyal Wingman combat drone prototype to RAAF

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has received the first of three Loyal Wingman aircraft prototypes from Boeing. The unmanned combat drone is the first aircraft to be designed, engineered, and manufactured in Australia in over half a century.

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Controversial pedophile study finds drug may reduce risk of child sexual abuse

Four years after it was announced, the results of a controversial clinical trial have been published, finding a testosterone-reducing drug, originally developed for prostate cancer, lowered sexual interest in children for men with pedophilic disorder.

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EATI travels lightly as the go-anywhere titanium spork multi-tool

Titanium-obsessed Septum Studio has launched a few pieces of ultralight gear in the past, and now it's back with a new take on the spork. An entire place setting in a single lightweight utensil, the EATI makes it easy to dine on the move.

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Plastic camshaft module claimed to be lighter, greener than aluminum

If there's one way of getting automobiles to use less gas, it's by lowering their weight. With that in mind, European researchers have now created a plastic camshaft module, which they claim offers more advantages than simply being lightweight.

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World’s smallest microelectronic robot is propelled by “jet engines”

Although we've previously heard about various groups' tiny "microbots," a new one is actually claimed to be the world's smallest microelectronic robot. What's more, it moves by shooting out dual jets of bubbles.

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Potentially exploitable weakness found in bacteria’s outer armor

The cell wall of bacteria helps keep toxins such as antibiotics out. Now, researchers have discovered a key mechanism that bacteria use to build their cell walls, which could present a new target in the ongoing quest to develop new drugs.

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