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The US Military has decided American dominance in the eVTOL market is a matter of national security, and has now accredited four eVTOL aircraft with military airworthiness to accelerate development. The latest is Kitty Kawk's Heaviside.

Greenery covered buildings are all the rage lately, giving city folk a taste of nature. The Marina Tower from Foster + Partners will not only grow to be the "first green high-rise building in Greece" but also the country's tallest building.

One of the most valuable scientific documents in history changed hands this week, when an autographed Isaac Newton manuscript of revisions to the first edition of the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica sold at Christie's for £1,702,500.

Cancer becomes far more dangerous when it spreads through the body, known as metastasis. A newly identified protein stops cells getting into the bloodstream – and tumor cells can ignore it, which may reveal a new drug target for cancer treatment.

New research from the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging is demonstrating a new tool that can calculate a person’s immune system age, which could help predict frailty and disease before symptoms appear.

A new study designed to gauge the scale of pollution in the globe's urban areas has concluded that around half come from just 25 cities, with so-called megacities in China and Japan proving to be particularly potent emitters.

Supernovae usually appear suddenly in the sky, but now astronomers have spotted one in advance. The telltale sign is a star with a “teardrop” shape, as it gets stretched out by the gravitational pull of a companion.

There's a problem with photographic police lineups – they typically only include front-on photos of suspects, which may not match the angle at which a witness saw the criminal. A new system, in which witnesses can rotate the images, has been shown to be more reliable.

A landmark study is describing the successful results of a trial testing a targeted gene therapy for children with a rare genetic disease. The research demonstrates a novel method for delivering gene therapies to specific locations deep in the brain.

After raising over $2.5 million on Kickstarter last year for a personal holographic display called Portrait, the Looking Glass Factory has now announced the launch of the second generation of its 4K UHD and 8K models.

Two auto companies that keep tradition alive are pooling their talents to make a cutting-edge version of a Le Mans legend. Superperformance and Everrati are collaborating on a "future-proofed" all-electric Ford GT40 continuation car.

Investigating the relationship between diet, gut bacteria and systemic inflammation, Stanford University researchers found just a few weeks of following a diet rich in fermented foods can improve microbiome diversity and reduce inflammatory biomarkers.