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Joby Aviation's latest iteration of its autonomous all-electric S4 air taxi VTOL aircraft has made its maiden flight. The new variant aimed at the defense market boasts a turbine-electric hybrid powertrain for greater range and endurance.

What Toyota has done with the 2025 4Runner is evolutionary. The new 4Runner sits on the TNGA-F body-on-frame architecture, and that underpins much of what’s compelling about this generation. I drove both the Limited and the Trailhunter models.

In a Phase 3 trial of more than 18,000 volunteers across three countries, a novel mRNA influenza vaccine developed by Pfizer has outperformed standard seasonal flu shots by 34.5%. It's yet another sign that this biotechnology is here to stay.

The Italian motorcycle maker claims extraordinary rideability from a unique engine under development that marries a triple to a twin, signaling a further step into complexity and high performance.

Jeep is going all out to court thrillseekers with the 2026 Recon SUV. This chunky all-electric 4x4 packs a raft of features for making light work of craggy trails, along with plenty of power under the hood, and creature comforts to boot.

MIT researchers have found a way to use the mechanical vibrations of sound waves to shake water molecules free from a storage medium. The breakthrough significantly speeds up the process of harvesting drinking water from thin air.

Almost 4 years after Verge debuted with its first hubless electric motorcycle, the Finnish-Estonian company has upgraded its best-selling electric motorcycle with a bunch of appreciable upgrades. And it all starts with the donut motor.

DJI's upping the ante for image quality out of its action cams with the new Osmo Action 6. It's the first of its kind to get a variable aperture, and it's got a larger sensor that should make for better photos and videos than its predecessor.

Biologists in Australia have developed a scanning device to accurately detect how potent a cannabis plant is, well before it's harvested. And no, it's not for selecting the choicest buds to get blasted with.

It's a well-known fact that if you're trying to cool your mouth after eating spicy food, you should drink milk, not water. Bearing that fact in mind, scientists have developed an "artificial tongue" that measures food spiciness using a milk protein.