Transporter

Map of the Congo Basin (A) with the Ruki sub-basin highlighted in red. Detailed map of the Ruki Basin with sampling location at Mbandaka shown in panel (B). Land-cover data sourced from ESA CCI-LC 2021 data. Credit: Limnology and Oceanography (2023). DOI: 10.1002/lno.12436 The Congo Basin of central Africa is well known for its network of rivers that drain a variety of landscapes, from dense tropical forests to more arid and…

In a few months, one of the most infamous episodes of Star Trek ever made will turn 28, a title that manages to whip Trekkies up into a frenzy worthy of a courtroom drama in just a single portmanteau: “Tuvix.” Perhaps one of the most stinging indictments of Voyager’s episodic nature, there’s good reasons it’s still so hotly debated—even by its own stars.io9 Q Star Trek Phone MessageSpeaking on a recent livestream to benefit the Hollywood Food Coalition (via TrekMovie), Voyager regulars Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris),…

By St. Jude Children's Research Hospital December 20, 2023Researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have elucidated the structures of VMAT2, a transporter crucial in neuronal communication, revealing how it interacts with drugs used to treat disorders like Tourette syndrome. This groundbreaking work offers insights into neurotransmitter transport, advancing the field of neuropharmacology.Neurons communicate through chemical signals known as neurotransmitters. Researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research…

I’m going to shoot straight with you: I don’t fully understand Volkswagen’s commercial van lineup — it is dizzyingly complicated. Today, VW announced the next generation of its commercial Transporter family will introduce an all-electric option in panel van, Kombi (dual purpose), dropside, and Caravelle (passenger) layouts. This is all well and good, and it sounds like these vans will all be based on a shared electric drivetrain platform with the Ford E-Transit Custom family. That means a 74kWh…

Remember back before smartphones existed, when you had to buy a separate cell phone, camera, music player, calculator and calendar? Well, the Utility Personal Transporter may one day do for electric vehicles what smartphones did for gadgets.Currently in functional prototype form, the Utility Personal Transporter (UPT) is being developed by Canadian electric mobility company Envo Drive Systems. In a nutshell, it's a four-wheel-drive electric platform that can be adapted to serve multiple purposes.Envo unveiled the vehicle…

NASA’s Crawler Transporter 2 was originally designed to carry Saturn V rockets during the Apollo program nearly 60 years ago. The aging giant recently got a much-needed upgrade for supporting the Artemis SLS megarocket, beating its twin vehicle for a world record.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonOn Wednesday, Guinness World Records presented NASA teams at the Kennedy Space Center with a certificate confirming that, at a whopping 6.65 million pounds (3 million kilograms), Crawler Transporter 2 is the world’s…

Screenshot: ParamountThere’s a lot of Star Trek, and a lot of it is very watchable—especially in the iconic sophomore series The Next Generation, which helped truly catapult the franchise into the pop culture stratosphere. Asking a Trek neophyte to dive into over five days of TV is a daunting task, however. So why not just give them an  appetizer of everything?This incredible mash-up of all 178 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation by Sentinel of Something condenses the seven seasons of boldly going done by Captain…

Image: ParamountEver since Star Trek Beyond came out in 2016, Paramount’s had some trouble getting a fourth entry to the reboot film series off the ground. Before and after the film was announced to everyone’s surprise (including the actors!), creative teams for Star Trek 4 have been attached and dropped from the film numerous times. The most recent of these departures was director Matt Shakman back in August after he got pulled in to direct Fantastic Four for Marvel.Prior to Shakman, this all started with SJ Clarkson…

Image: ParamountSequels are always a challenging endeavor, in Star Trek or otherwise. But there’s something about Star Trek cinematically that makes it really difficult—the franchise rarely ever escaped the cursed of the odd-numbered sequel, and so it’s fitting that Lower Decks approaches its own first attempt at a direct sequel with a sense of trepidation... and mostly makes it work.“Crisis Point II: Paradoxus” is, as the name implies, a direct sequel to the movie-riffing delights of “Crisis Point,”the late-game Lower…