ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING DESIGN

The A-frame Bunkhouse is designed for a good time, not a long time. The tiny house features an extra-wide layout that’s arranged on one floor and sleeps a family of up to four people in comfort on vacation. Continue Reading Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
FREIGHT SHIPPING AND PORTS

The maritime industry is under pressure to clean up its act, giving rise to everything from high-tech rigid wing sails to pioneering zero-emission designs like the Yara Birkeland all-electric autonomous cargo vessel. Continue Reading Category: Marine, Transport Tags: Shipping, Hybrid, Electric Boats, Diesel, Cargo, Climate Solutions: Shipping
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MECHATRONICS AND MOTION SYSTEMS

In Norse mythology, Sköll is the name of a giant wolf that chases the sun across the sky. I’m not sure if that’s what Stark Future was going for with the Varg SM Sköll, but well, that’s what the limited-edition electric supermoto is named. But more important than the name and its exclusivity is what Stark has done with the bike. Continue Reading Category: Motorcycles, Transport Tags: stark, Electric Motorcycles, Supermoto, Super-Black, Titanium
AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

A new kind of “super ice” that has its origins in a wild World War II plan to build ships from ice and wood pulp could give future engineers a novel toolkit for construction in polar or even alien environments. Continue Reading Category: Engineering Tags: Ice, Building and Construction, World War Two, Concrete, Genetic engineering
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DRONES AND UNCREWED SYSTEMS

General Atomics has unveiled its proposal for the next generation of Medium-Altitude, Long-Endurance (MALE) drones in the form of its Wildfire Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS). Designed as a lower-cost, high-volume counterpart to the venerable MQ-9 Reaper, the platform aims to restore combat mass in high-threat environments. Continue Reading Category: Military, Engineering Tags: US Air Force, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Reaper, drones
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