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Hyundai Motor Group unveiled plans Monday for a $6 billion steel plant in Louisiana to provide the metal needed for its auto factories in Alabama and Georgia. The announcement came as part of a broader $21 billion investment into U.S. manufacturing facilities including EV factories. Unlike much of t...

Sexual selection may explain the start of art. As [Charles] Darwin put it in The Descent of Man: “The playing passages of bower-birds are tastefully ornamented with gaily-coloured objects; and this shews that they must receive some kind of pleasure from the sight of such things.” The satin and great...

The longest organic molecules yet found on Mars are very similar to those produced by life on Earth.

German bike maker Ponomarets has launched a gorgeous carbon road bike called the Eidolon. Riding with a lightweight motor and battery, and fashioned from carbon fiber and "high-end curated components," the ebike weighs in at under 10 kilos. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles, Transport Tags: ebikes...

Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution?

The most recent Half-Life game, Alyx, wasn't what anyone expected, but it remains one of the high points of the series and of VR as an experience.

"They have the potential to transform the power sector." Business owners ditch national grids in favor of unexpected alternative: 'You can change the world' first appeared on The Cool Down.

The machines can add joy to one’s life, but they’re not for everyone.

Creative director Jonathan Dumont explains how the need to 'be humble' helped Ubisoft Quebec bring feudal-era Japan to life in a whole new way.

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — plays a vital, overlooked role in the first steps of life. The post How Metabolism Can Shape Cells’ Destinies first appeared on Quanta Magazine

DesignMarjolein/Shutterstock Imagine a world where the oxygen you need changes dramatically between day and night. Your world shifts from being rich in oxygen (oxic) in the day, so you have energy to hunt for food, to suffocatingly oxygen-free (anoxic) at night, which slows you down. Now, picture ea...

Carbon isn’t an enemy to “combat” or “tackle,” the environmentalist Paul Hawken writes, but the animating force of life.

"The villagers’ lives will become more prosperous too." Plus, young Americans are happier, great news on HIV prevention drug, the world's longest underwater tunnel, sociogenomics, and Donald Trump versus market forces.

For the motocross-minded, the Bronco eBike is equal parts blast-from-the-past and harbinger of the future.

Map historian Daniel Steiner talked about how Spanish Conquistadors in the late 18th laid out the map for the city of Los Angeles.

Blue-on-white Delft tiles in paintings of Vermeer, and those in the 19th century who recreated period interiors, including Laura Alma-Tadema.

Photo credits: Robert-Jan Smits and Mirjam Storim European industries must become stronger if they are to cope with fierce global competition and other future challenges. The European Commission's Competitiveness Compass and the Read more here

By studying cellular enzymes that perform difficult reactions, MIT chemist Dan Suess hopes to find new solutions to global energy challenges.

The European Commission, today: Today, the European Commission adopted two decisions under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) specifying the measures that Apple has to take to comply with certain aspects of its interoperability obligation. [...] The first set of measures concerns nine iOS connectivity fe...

From the outside, Estudio Chuky looks like any of the unassuming warehouses that dot Carrer Camp Rodat, a street in Valencia’s Benaguasil industrial district. But step inside its tall steel doors, and you won’t find containers or trucks. Instead, there’s a 10-foot tall octopus hanging from the ceili...