Editor Uno

Rolls-Royce presents the future of tug bridge controls : Rolls-Royce created this concept under FIMECC (Finnish Metals and Engineering Competence Cluster) user experience and usability program, UXUS.

By 2025, the first batch of autonomous vehicles will be driving through your neighborhood.
But what about cargo ships?
They’ll still have humans at the helm–at least most of the time–and this is the augmented reality bridge they’ll use to traverse the high seas.

The introduction of the aluminum body 2015 F-150 is an aggressive move by Ford in the automotive lightweighting battle.

DEARBORN, Mich. -- Ford will begin production of its aluminum body F-150 pickup today at the Ford Rouge Center just outside of Detroit.

The new pickup truck, which was unveiled during the 2014 North American International Auto Show in January, will be available at dealerships in the U.S. next month.

The introduction of the 2015 F-150 -- a pickup with a high-strength steel fra…

China's first jumbo jet, the C919, is scheduled to take its first flight in 2015.

SHANGHAI - China is seeking suppliers to develop its own wide-body passenger plane over the next decade, industry executives said, expanding its ambitions and rivalry withBoeing (IW 500/13) (BA) and Airbus (IW 1000/47).

The proposed aircraft -- tentatively called the C929 -- would be state-backed Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC)'s largest, according to suppliers that have held discussions with the firm.…

Synthetische Kraftstoffe

Forscher arbeiten an Verfahren, um Benzin und Diesel synthetisch aus Kohlendioxid herzustellen. Eine vor wenigen Tagen in Betrieb genommene Pilotanlage in Dresden zeigt, wie es geht.

Das Herz der Sunfire-Anlage: Hier spaltet sich bei 800 Grad der Dampf in Wasserstoff und Sauerstoff

Die Erdölvorräte sind endlich, der menschliche Erfindungsgeist offenbar nicht. Technisch ist es möglich, Kohlenwasserstoffe – also unter anderem Benzin, Diesel, Kerosin und auch Fette – aus …

If you’re the kind of person that tends to notice these things, a fair weather weekend stroll in any Chinese city or town lacks a distinct sound: the buzzing of light propeller aircraft in the sky. Outside the commercial and military realms, aviation is strictly limited, and private citizens who just want to take to the air have few options. That’s problematic, since booming growth in the country’s airline industry has generated a need for pilots, and it’s easier to recruit when you’ve got a po…

Wasserabweisende Sprays für Kleidung versuchen den Effekt von Lotusblättern zu imitieren. Solche Beschichtungen nutzen sich aber schnell ab, sie verpuffen bei höhreren Temperaturen und gegen Öl sind sie sowieso nutzlos. Forscher der Universität Kalifornien haben nun eine 3D-Struktur entworfen und getestet, die verschiedenste Oberflächen zum flüssigkeitsabweisenden Supermaterial macht.

Wer ganz genau hinschaut, Elektronenmikroskop-genau, erkennt auf der Oberfläche von Lotusblättern kleine Hügel …

The Wall Street Journal has uncovered Sony's clandestine involvement in a smartwatch project. Under the name Fashion Entertainment (FES), the company has thrown an electronic paper watch into the wearable product scrum.

All credit to Sony, the watch itself is very slick looking. It overcomes many of the problems existing smartwatches on the market present -- namely that they are overly bulky and have naff battery lives. Electronic paper, which is famously used in ebook readers to provide them …

Danish architecture studio EFFEKT has triumphed in a competition to design a street sports facility in and around a crumbling train engine roundhouse in Esbjerg, south-west Denmark.

EFFEKT will transform the former locomotive maintenance shed, arranged around a circular turntable, with a new youth and community centre centred around skateboarding – one of Europe's fastest-growing sports.

Named Streetmekka Esbjerg, it is one of three facilities proposed in Denmark by non-profit organisation Re…

Researchers studying honey bees have found that genes switch off as memories are being formed, allowing for new connections between nerve cells. Memory management in the bee brain is controlled by small genetic elements called microRNAs that help regulate gene expression. These microRNAs could directly target the key developmental gene “actin,” which controls the ability of nerve cells to connect with other nerve cells.

"The nervous system behind memory formation is fundamentally no differen…

Die Automobilindustrie erlebt eine Umbruchphase: Kraftstoffe werden teurer, Ressourcen knapper. Gleichzeitig nimmt die Mobilität in den Schwellenländern zu. Das Thema Klimaschutz spielt eine zentrale Rolle. Wir müssen Technologien entwickeln, die effizient und nachhaltig sind.

Mit ThyssenKrupp InCarplus will man den Kunden bei der Bewältigung dieser großen Herausforderungen unterstützen. ThyssenKrupp InCarplus leistet dabei einen starken Beitrag zu automobiler Effizienz. Mehr als 40 innovative L…

Discovery of a new group of bone cells could mean some children with facial deformities won’t have to wait until they grow up to have corrective surgery. The cartilage-making cells known as chondrocytes replicate themselves, make other bone cells, and drive bone growth.

"If we can find a way to make bones that continue to grow along with the child, maybe we would be able to put these pieces of growing bones back into children and make their faces look much better than they do," says Noriaki …

Why do humans drink milk? Archaeologists and geneticists have been puzzling over this question since they discovered that the mutations allowing adults to drink milk are under the strongest selection of any in the human genome.

Extraction of ancient milk proteins from human dental calculus. (Credit: Christina Warinner)

In most other people of the world, the lactose cannot be properly digested and can cause diarrhea or other symptoms of lactose intolerance resulting from the gases produced …

Essengehen ist wohl so alt wie die Menschheit, doch jetzt wird das uralte Ritual futuristisch. In Singapur fliegen ab kommenden Jahr Roboter-Kellner durch Restaurants und servieren das Essen.

Die Firma Infinium Robotics startet das Projekt Ende nächsten Jahres zunächst in einem der fünf Timbre Group’s Restaurants. Unternehmens-Chef Woon Junyang schätzt die Kosten dafür auf ungefähr „eine niedrige siebenstellige Summe“.

Die neuen Kellner sehen aus wie eine große Frisbee-Scheibe mit vier Propelle…

Lauren Singer verlebt einen ganz gewöhnlichen Alltag, sie steht morgens auf und trinkt ihren Kaffee, geht mit ihren Freundinnen in die Bar und versucht, im Großstadtdschungel ihre kreativen Ideen zu verwirklichen. Doch der Unterschied zu Nancy und Jenny von nebenan ist: Seit zwei Jahren produziert sie dabei keinen Müll mehr. Jetzt mögt ihr vielleicht denken, „das geht ja gar nicht“ oder „naja, das ist halt so eine moderne Joan Baez in weiten Röcken und mit unangenehmem Missionarsgebaren.“ Beide…

Sometimes, words just complicate things. What if our brains could communicate directly with each other, bypassing the need for language?

University of Washington researchers have successfully replicated a direct brain-to-brain connection between pairs of people as part of a scientific study following the team’s initial demonstration a year ago. In the newly published study, which involved six people, researchers were able to transmit the signals from one person’s brain over the Internet and use…

Vanderbilt University researchers in Nashville have isolated Ebola-fighting human antibodies – the first of its kind – that could lead to a new treatment. The Vanderbilt research team has been working for several years to come up with the strongest Ebola-fighting antibodies. Watch as VUCast goes inside the lab.

University of Copenhagen, Posted by Stine Rasmussen-U. Copenhagen on November 26, 2014

The mineral selenium, which naturally occurs in foods like broccoli and garlic, appears to slow down a process that allows cancers such as melanoma, prostate cancer, and leukemia to spread.

These types of cancer contain mechanisms that block the body’s ability to recognize and destroy them by causing the immune system to over-activate.

“You can say that the stimulating molecules over-activate the immune s…

ThyssenKrupp Elevator, ein Unternehmen mit rund 50 000 Mitarbeiter hat in Essen die nach eigenen Angaben größte Innovation in der Aufzugtechnik seit 160 Jahren vorgestellt. MULTI heißt das Konzept und vereint die Technik von Paternoster und Magnetschwebebahn Transrapid, setzt es auf eine neue Ebene. Elevator-Chef Andreas Schierenbeck erklärt: „Schon bald können Lifte auch diagonal und horizontal fahren können, mehrere Kabinen in einem Schacht – kontinuierlich-umlaufend und ohne Seile, sondern m…

"The idea was to see whether we could make enough fuel to launch rockets and not carry all the fuel and i…

Ein Blinder kann wieder sehen: Dank einem bionischen Auge – eine Kamera in einer Brille filmt und leitet die Daten an das Implantat weiter.

Die erste kommerzielle Implantation eines bionischen Auges bei einem Blinden ist Ende Oktober an der Jules Gonin Augenklinik der Universität Lausanne geglückt. Dabei sendet eine Kamera in einer Brille Bilder an einen tragbaren Computer. Dieser leitet die Signale an ein Implantat im Auge weiter, das über Elektroden verbleibende Netzhautzellen aktiviert.

Der…