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As temperatures around the world shift dramatically, wildlife are often being forced to relocate to find suitable habitats – and scientists are working hard to try and understand how many species might struggle with trying to find a new home.  Animals going to higher ground face two issues: colder temperatures, and thinner, less oxygen-rich air (so it's harder to breathe). In a new study, a group of Anna's hummingbirds (Calypte anna) were taken on a trip some 1,200 meters (4,000 feet) above their normal…

File photo Hankook Tire & Technology Company opened its latest hi-tech tyre testing facility, called the TechnoRing, in Taean County on South Korea’s east coast, which it claimed was the largest proving ground of its kind in Asia. The country’s largest tyre manufacturer said the new test centre, built at cost of KRW230bn (US$181m), boasted the longest test track in the region comprising 13 individual…

DARPA has launched a new "Liberty Lifter" program to design, build and test a highly-efficient wing-in-ground effect aircraft for transporting "very large, heavy loads" over long distances without runways. Prototypes could fly as early as 2027. The wing-in-ground effect has seen a bit of a mini revival over the last few years. There are a few players trying to get ground effect vehicles (GEVs) into commercial circulation – notably Singapore's Wigetworks, with its Airfish-8 and Boston's Regent, which has drawn in…

The mission, that is Folks are being charmed all over again by both LEGO and Star Wars collectively, as many have collectively been taken in by a combination of nostalgia and LEGO formula mechanical evolutions in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. The High Ground Skywalker Saga mission has been patched, among a few other bugs that folks have been encountering recently. In all, three missions have been fixed, all of which were either game-breaking or progress-halting bugs (two locked story completion, and one messed…

Although electric scooters are becoming extremely popular, the things are still just a little too unstable for some people. The Afreda S6 was designed with such folks in mind, as it features two front wheels that independently tilt into turns – plus it can be folded up when not in use.First of all, if the scooter looks a bit familiar, that may be because the previous model was manufactured for various other companies, which sold it under their own names. Now, the original designer/manufacturer has registered its own…

Bohemia Interactive revealed the future of the Arma franchise today. Powered by the new Enfusion Engine, the Czech developer has started work on Arma 4, the next mainline title in the series. That isn’t the next Arma title releasing, though, as Bohemia Interactive also announced and launched Arma Reforger into early access on PC and Xbox Series X today. Arma Reforger is a military sim set in a reimagined version of 1980s Everon, a fictional country from Arma: Cold War Assault based on Czechoslovakia. It’s…

Android is unsurprisingly the most popular mobile operating system in the world, as it’s available on a huge variety of devices. However, data from StockApps shows that iOS has been taking Android’s market share in recent years – although Google’s platform still dominates the market. As of July 2018, Android dominated 77.32% of the global mobile operating system market share. However, four years later, that number has dropped to 69.74%. At the same time, global iOS adoption rose from 19.4% to 25.49% over the same…

The startups and investors that have sent hopes soaring for “flying cars” could be in for a rough landing, in more ways than one.Hundreds of companies, new ones and legacy aviation players alike, are working on such vehicles—also called air taxis or eVTOLs (short for electric vertical take off and landing). Five such startups have gone public in the past 12 months. They are trying to shape a near future in which taking a flying cab is an economically viable alternative to taking a terrestrial one. The biggest stumbling…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has set a record on the Red Planet. Thanks to its self-driving function, the rover has covered the greatest distance in a single Martian day, or sol, by any rover on the planet. Perseverance, which was launched on July 30, 2020, and landed on Mars on February 18, 2021, recently covered a record 245.76m in one Martian day, which is slightly longer than one day on Earth. The aim of the Perseverance rover and its accompanying helicopter Ingenuity is to find signs of ancient life on the…

The chief executives of major US passenger and cargo carriers on Monday warned of an impending "catastrophic" aviation crisis in less than 36 hours, when AT&T and Verizon are set to deploy new 5G service.The airlines warned the new C-Band 5G service set to begin on Wednesday could render a significant number of widebody aircraft unusable, "could potentially strand tens of thousands of Americans overseas" and cause "chaos" for US flights."Unless our major hubs are cleared to fly, the vast majority of the traveling and…