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Media Platforms Design TeamThe rumor mill that anticipates every Apple announcement is getting pretty good these days. As the gaggle of Cupertino-watchers predicted, Apple CEO Tim Cook got up onstage today and rolled out a new iPad with a Retina display and optional 4G LTE. Oh yeah, there was also a hardware and software upgrade to the Apple TV, giving it a very iOS-like interface and 1080p output. (But no Apple-branded TVs, though, which I’ve always believed would be a terrible idea anyway....

When someone gets a severe injury, the injury itself might not even be what’s causing them the most harm—it could likely be the post-traumatic bleeding. In fact, uncontrolled post-traumatic bleeding is the leading cause of potentially preventable death among trauma patients, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).That’s why Chinese researchers have developed what they call a “biological glue,” which they hope will one day be able to prevent hearts and arteries from bleeding uncontrollably....

Climate change is causing the oceans to warm at an alarming rate, but new research finds that not all the water in the oceans is actually getting warmer. According to new research, deep in the Pacific one region is actually getting colder. This decreasing temperature in the ocean depths is also caused by climate change, but not the modern kind we’re so familiar with. Instead, this cooling is caused by a minor ice age that happened hundreds of years ago....

Make/Model: Polaris Scrambler XP1000 S | Base Price: $15,000 | Engine: 952cc | Drive Type: AWD/2WD | Weight: 881 lb dry | Horsepower: 89Sport ATVs are an endangered species. Back in the glory days of 2008, just about every ATV company built a sport machine. But today’s ATV market is afflicted with an acute case of pragmatism, rife with blocky four-wheel-drives fitted with cargo racks and hitches. The implication seems to be that fun for its own sake is irresponsible—you use your utility quad to clear brush off the back 40; any entertainment is purely incidental....

Once upon a time, long before there were music downloads and MP3 players, even before there were compact discs (you do remember CDs, don’t you?), there were records. These vinyl platters had grooves with lots of tiny bumps in them. The records spun on a special turntable and the bumps vibrated a tiny stylus as—oh, never mind all that, I’m getting sidetracked. One trouble with records was that you couldn’t play them in your car while driving....

A mysterious fighter with a new, large missile suspended underneath could be a Russian anti-satellite weapon. The MiG-31 “Foxhound” interceptor was spotted last month at an aircraft test site near Moscow carrying a missile that could be used as an anti-satellite weapon or a means of quickly placing small satellites in orbit. According to Aviation Week & Space Technology, an experimental MiG-31 flew its first flight in September at the Zhukovsky aviation research center southeast of Moscow....

The sun is but one of billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and a small handful of those billions of stars are the sun’s siblings. Our host star formed in a nebula billions of years ago alongside dozens, or possibly hundreds of other stars. Since then, however, the stars that began their lives together have wandered apart, and it’s nearly impossible for scientists to determine which out of 150 billion stars are the ones that formed with our own....

After more than 50 years as a franchise, Star Trek is still everywhere. We’re getting new Trek TV shows, new (foul-mouthed) flicks, and of course, new generations of fans appreciating the classic series on streaming networks. But now, by sheer coincidence, scientists have found one of the franchise’s signature logos in a place where no one has gone before: Mars.Scientists at the University of Arizona manage the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera....

A Tesla Model 3 collided with a tow truck in Moscow this past weekend, but only minor injuries were reported.The car soon exploded, likely following the puncture of the Model 3’s lithium-ion battery.The explosion is the first recorded incident involving the newer Model 3.This past weekend, a Russian man named Alexey Tretyakov and his two children collided with a parked tow truck while driving down a highway in Moscow. Luckily, no lives were lost—Tretyakov reportedly is suffering from a broken leg—but the car wasn’t so lucky....

While electric vehicles are quickly proliferating throughout the world, most electric engines are still relegated to smaller vehicles. The serious work, some argue, is still done by gas guzzling diesel engines. But then there’s the Elekto Dumper—the world’s largest EV—which flouts the rule that EVs can’t handle serious work.Related StoryWhen a Motorcycle Racer Makes an E-BikeThe truck is used to haul lime and marlstone, which contains clay and silt, from the sides of mountains in Switzerland....

It sounds a bit like an environmental dream: a factory that sucks carbon dioxide from the air itself (cheaply, too), and converts it into fuel that can be used for cars and planes. But it’s an actual project developed by scientists from Harvard University and Carbon Engineering, a Bill Gates funded company. If the new process is successfully implemented at scale, it could mean a more “optimistic” future for climate change....

Few vehicles are so perfect for so many Americans as the full-size pickup. That’s why these big haulers have perennially been our nation’s best-selling vehicles. But now the creators of this quintessentially American icon — Ford, General Motors and Dodge — need to watch their rearview mirrors. Serious contenders from Nissan and Toyota have entered this last preserve of American market dominance with trucks of their own — trucks engineered and built here in the U....

The work at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland is usually focused on the future. But a slab of sandstone found on Goddard’s ground have given insight into the world of 100 million years ago. Not just a fossil, the Goddard slab shows the rare sight of mammals and dinosaurs interacting.The story of the Goddard slab begins with a helpful husband with a passion for his hobby. Ray Stanford is an amateur paleontologist, but when he was dropping his wife Shelia off at her job at NASA Goddard one day in 2012, he wasn’t looking to find anything....

Algae? Fungi? Some other type of plant? The Ediacaran organisms, ancient life forms that were common on in the Earth’s oceans half a billion years ago, have puzzled scientists for decades. Now two paleontologists feel confident that the ancient species were something completely different: animals that were unlike any seen on Earth today. Scientists have discovered nearly 200 different types of Ediacarans within ancient rocks around the globe since the first discovery in the 1940s....

Britain’s largest auto insurer, Direct Line, has been offering Tesla owners a sweet-sounding deal for the last few months: Enable Autopilot, the semi-autonomous driver-assist system, and get five percent off your yearly insurance premium. When the insurer announced the inducement in December, Tesla owners nearly broke the internet, as they rushed to crow, assuming they too were in line for a similar financial windfall. They were wrong.One problem is that this discount isn’t coming to America, for reasons we’ll explain....

Media Platforms Design TeamIt’s a psychological thriller in the sky: Non-Stop stars Liam Neeson as an air marshal trying to stop a mysterious villain from killing people on board his flight—but who soon finds himself becoming the prime suspect. In the behind-the-scenes clip below, check out Neeson training for high-intensity action shots in the cramped quarters of an airliner.Non-Stop comes out on Blu-Ray on June 10, and PopMech will be giving away 10 Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Download combo packs to mark the occasion....

A massive sting operation in Europe that took four months and involved 57 countries ended with the seizure of more than 10,000 metric tons of food and over a million liters, or 264,000 gallons, of drink that had been adulterated or was substandard and hazardous. Known as Operation Opson V, the sting was carried out as a joint effort between the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and the European Police Office (Europol)....

Ethan Chappel, an a space enthusiast, caught a meteor crashing into Jupiter live. While such events are occur regularly, catching one as an amateur is pretty cool.NASA is sending a spacecraft to investigate Jupiter-influenced asteroids in 2021.An amateur astronomer captured what appears to have been a meteor exploding into Jupiter. Ethan Chappel, who captured the incident while taking photos for his Chappel Astro project, is awaiting further scientific confirmation of the collision....

A new anti-ice coating, inspired by fish, combines three major ice-fighting jobs into one gel.Such a coating could help prevent frozen cars, airplane wings, water pipes, and much more.The same fish proteins have helped scientists preserve specimens at freezing temperatures.Scientists in California and China have collaborated on an anti-ice coating inspired by Antarctic fish. In February in the northern hemisphere, it doesn’t take a lot of imagination to understand how useful this could be—but the more important applications include things like de-icing airplanes and preventing engines from freezing up....

I back up to the loading dock at Habitat for Humanity and begin wrestling the stainless-steel sink out of the car. “We don’t take sinks,” says the guy at the door. “But if you throw it in the scrap-metal bin, we’ll still get money for it.” He gestures toward a dumpster, out to the right of the loading dock. I climb back into the Infiniti QX60 I’m test-driving and start the engine....