Lime unveiled its fourth-generation electric scooter with a swappable battery and enhanced safety features. The company also announced it was “cash flow positive” in the third quarter of 2020 — a sign that the scooter sharing giant is getting closer to becoming profitable for the first time.
2021 Nissan Sentra Gets $100 More Expensive, Adds Standard Features
The attractive compact sedan adds Apple CarPlay/Android Auto capability as standard at a starting price just over $20,000.
Asana adds new integrations to help connect distributed teams
Asana has unveiled integrations with Atlassian Jira, Microsoft Teams, Slack and Zoom to help improve productivity and reduce the duplication of work.
Cadillac Lyriq electric SUV pulled forward for early 2022 US arrival
General Motors plans to phase internal combustion engines out of its Cadillac lineup by the end of the decade.
Arecibo radio telescope, an icon of astronomy, is lost
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will decommission Arecibo Observatory‘s massive radio dish after damage has made the facility too dangerous to repair, the agency announced today (Nov. 19).
Law firm claims stake in tape strips used to lift moon dust off Apollo 11 sample bag
A Kansas City law firm has filed suit over what it claims is its financial stake in five small strips of possibly-moon-dust-stained carbon tape, extending an already complicated — and, at times, convoluted — legal saga that has surrounded a white zippered pouch that was used on the first moon […]
‘Exceptional’ cancer patients yield clues to better drug treatments
While even the best cancer drugs don’t buy much time for most people whose cancer has spread, there are rare exceptions: The patients whose multiple tumors melt away and who remain healthy years later. Researchers have long dismissed these “exceptional responders” as unexplainable outliers. Now, an effort to systematically study […]
Twisted graphene could power a new generation of superconducting electronics
In 2018, a group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) pulled off a dazzling materials science magic trick. They stacked two microscopic cards of graphene—sheets of carbon one atom thick—and twisted one ever so slightly. Applying an electric field transformed the stack from a conductor to an […]