Commissioned to design a vacation home in an avocado field while leaving the field itself as intact as possible, Francisco Pardo Arquitecto decided on the radical approach of burying the home. The result is the Avocado House, which blends into the beautiful Mexican landscape so well that at a glance it's barely visible.Continue ReadingCategory: Architecture, LifestyleTags: Building and Constructi
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Buried Avocado House disappears into beautiful Mexican landscape
Posted by ArielTechGeek 1 hour 38 minutes ago (https://newatlas.com)
Luna Cycles sets trails on fire with 2,500-watt X2 Enduro ebike
Posted by ArielTechGeek 3 hours ago (https://newatlas.com)
Back in 2019, Luna Cycles unchained the ground-breaking X1 Enduro ebike, a 50-lb performance monster with up to 2,000 watts of power on tap, full suspension and up to 40 miles of per-charge range. Now the company has unveiled an improved model.Continue ReadingCategory: Bicycles, TransportTags: ebikes, Enduro, Off-road
LA Apple Store brings the outdoors inside with tree-lined retail space
Posted by ArielTechGeek 5 hours ago (https://newatlas.com)
Apple and Foster + Partners' longstanding collaboration continues with the completion and opening of their latest Apple Store. Located in The Grove shopping complex in Los Angeles, California, customers enter through huge glass doors to a tree-lined retail space with a mirrored ceiling.Continue ReadingCategory: Architecture, LifestyleTags: Building and Construction, Apple, Retail, Foster and Part
Spinal cord scaffold sends regenerating neurons in the right direction
Posted by ArielTechGeek 7 hours ago (https://newatlas.com)
Where some parts of the human body are able to heal relatively well following an injury, a damaged spinal cord is one that has a notoriously difficult time. But a new type of artificial scaffold is providing scientists with new cause for optimism. It features a novel design that encourages regenerating neurons to grow towards one another and bridge busted connections more efficiently, offering ne
Gut microbiome genetically edited in live mice for the first time
Posted by ArielTechGeek 9 hours ago (https://newatlas.com)
Scientists at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have successfully edited the genome of bacteria in the gut microbiome of living mice, for the first time. Bacteria-hunting viruses are loaded with the CRISPR gene-editing system, in a breakthrough that could help manipulate the ratio between different bacterial species to treat a range of health problems.Continue ReadingCategory: Med
Review: 2021 BMW X5 xDrive45e, the return of a pioneering plug-in hybrid
Posted by ArielTechGeek 11 hours ago (https://newatlas.com)
When BMW redesigned the X5 in 2019 it became larger and more accommodating while retaining its driver-centric nature and smart interior, but the hybrid model went missing from the lineup. This year sees the return of the plug-in hybrid, along with some efficiency upgrades ... and losses.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Plug-in Hybrid, Plug-In, BMW, PHEV, SUV, Reviews
Promising COVID-19 pill is less effective than initially reported
Posted by ArielTechGeek 13 hours ago (https://newatlas.com)
Ahead of a U.S Food and Drug Administration advisory panel meeting, drugmaker Merck has revealed final analysis data from a Phase 3 trial testing its oral antiviral pill against COVID-19. The new data reveals the treatment is significantly less effective than early indications.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & Wellbeing, LifestyleTags: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Virus, Antiviral, FDA
James Webb Space Telescope cleared for launch on December 22
Posted by ArielTechGeek 15 hours ago (https://newatlas.com)
After years of setbacks, the James Webb Space Telescope will finally launch next month. NASA has given the green light to begin fueling the observatory for launch, after engineering teams found no sign of damage from an incident last week.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: James Webb Space Telescope, NASA, Astronomy, Launch, Telescope, Space telescope
Parker Solar Probe sets new distance and speed records on solar slingshot
Posted by ArielTechGeek 1 day 7 hours ago (https://newatlas.com)
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has set a new pair of records after it survived its 10th close encounter with the Sun. On November 21, 2021 at 4:25 am EST (08:25 GMT), the robotic deep-space explorer came within 5.3 million miles (8.5 million km) of the Sun's surface and reached a speed of 363,660 mph (586,864 km/h), making it both the closest satellite to survive such a near pass of the Sun and the fa
The Biro, the invention that changed the writing game
Posted by ArielTechGeek 1 day 9 hours ago (https://newatlas.com)
In 1945, a new invention that had helped to win the Second World War went on sale in the United States and Britain. First seen as an expensive novelty, it soon went on to become not only a part of our everyday lives, but one that revolutionized how we communicate. This was the Biro, the first successful ballpoint pen – a deceptively simple writing instrument with a very big story behind it.Contin
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