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1 week ago | 
newatlas.com | Joe Salas
In Japanese mythology, dragons aren't the fire-breathing, treasure-hoarding monsters you'll find in Tolkien, Martin, et al. Instead, they're wise, serpentine creatures who control rain, fly through the clouds, and protect sacred areas.
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1 week ago | 
newatlas.com | Joe Salas
On May 21, 2025, New Atlas attended a demonstration at the Nabors facility in Houston, Texas, where Quaise Energy showcased a literal groundbreaking demo of its millimeter wave drilling technology, looking to prove its dream of revolutionizing geothermal energy extraction. Quaise was officially founded in 2018 as a spinout of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Joe Salas
1 hour agoTwo weeks before Election Day last year, Donald Trump dropped into western North Carolina, where the devastation from Tropical Storm Helene was still fresh and frustration with Washington was boiling over. If elected, Trump pledged, he would do better in future crises, learning the lessons of the …
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1 week ago | 
newatlas.com | Joe Salas
BMW Motorrad has dropped jaws at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d’Este with a spectacular new concept motorcycle – a glimpse at the future of the barnstorming M1000RR superbike on which Toprak Razgatlıoğlu stoppied his way to the 2024 WSBK championship title. Under an especially beautiful carbon fiber fairing lurks an inline four engine punching out over 230 hp (169 kW) of electronically refined hellfire. Multi-level traction control, wheelie control, engine brake management, power modes...
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2 weeks ago | 
newatlas.com | Joe Salas
Horizon Aircraft just made aviation history, becoming the first eVTOL to achieve a stable wing-borne flight transition using a fan-in-wing design with its "large-scale" Cavorite X7 demonstrator. The best part is that this particular aircraft is meant to be just that, a conventional aircraft – that just happens to be able to take off and land vertically like a helicopter. It works by having 14 fans embedded within the wings. Five per main wing with a pair in each forward canard.
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4 weeks ago | 
newatlas.com | Joe Salas
So this is a weird but ridiculously cool one. Anker Innovations – a well-known worldwide brand with a solid reputation in power banks, chargers, and cables – has a sub-brand called Eufy – and it's built the very first desktop-sized 3D texture printer for home projects. This isn't a typical 3D printer where you load up some PLA and fire out enough 3DBenchys to fill a bathtub.
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1 month ago | 
newatlas.com | Joe Salas
The word "flying car" immediately puts visions of "The World of Tomorrow" World's Fair in my head. Retro-looking flashy contraptions like the Ford Volante concept car. If you were to ask Dezső Molnár what his vision of a flying car looked like, he'd simply show you the one he's building now. It's been nearly a decade since New Atlas checked in with Dezső's then-concept Streetwing flying car.
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1 month ago | 
newatlas.com | Joe Salas
So, there are these videos going around of some guy riding around on what looks like a Star Wars speeder bike. In fact, just hours ago, a new video just popped up where he's wearing a Storm Trooper costume in the forest while he flies around. Just in time for May 4th excitement? Over the last few days since the video release, the internet seems mostly in this collective "WHOA! But...?" But nothing.
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1 month ago | 
newatlas.com | Joe Salas
It's happening: The robots are taking our jobs. No sick days, bathroom breaks, and no more curly hairs in your buns. Just cold, hard efficiency. More specifically, BurgerBot is a new fast-food joint where robots are doing all the work that humans aren't interested in, like burger assembly lines. In Los Gatos, California, one of the San Francisco Bay Area's more affluent areas, a shiny new fancy fast-food concept has just popped up inside of one of its trendy upscale brunch spots.
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1 month ago | 
newatlas.com | Joe Salas
Bugatti is known for going all in when it begins a project. The Tourbillon hypercar was no exception with its incredible ... well, everything. Bugatti went so far as to do away with its iconic quad-turbo W16 engine and built an entirely bespoke naturally aspirated 8.3-liter V16 fire-breather with the help of Cosworth. The hand-built Tourbillon V16 engine, first unveiled in June of 2024, is nothing short of spectacular. Its cross-plane crankshaft is 3-ft 3.4-in-long (almost 1 m) for starters.
