Mercedes AMG One gets its track-record paint sucked clean off

[New Atlas logo]( Automotive [Mercedes AMG One gets its track-record paint sucked clean off]( [On the plus side, the track won't need to use the sweeper truck at the end of the day to clean the track]( On a beautiful warm summer day in southern Germany, little-known McMurtry Automotive took its Speirling PURE car to the Hockenheim Racetrack with former Formula1 racing driver – not to mention current Goodwood Festival of Speed record holder – Max Chilton, in tow. [Read more]( Special Promotion for New Atlas Readers [Capture stunning footage with this 4K drone duo bundle, now $159.97]( Ninja Dragon, a brand renowned for redefining consumer drone capabilities, has combined two top drones into an exclusive package. For a limited time, you can save $40 on the Ninja Dragon Phantom Eagle PRO 4K with Blade K Drone Bundle. [Read more]( Aircraft [Liquid-hydrogen-powered eVTOL makes a dazzling world debut]( [Sirius Aviation AG has unveiled the design for its CEO Jet at the MOVE Expo in London]( Sirius Aviation, in partnership with BMW Designworks, has today offered the first look at the inside and out of its upcoming CEO Jet, a winged eVTOL with 28 ducted fans that's powered by hydrogen fuel cells for a range of 1,150 miles per trip. [Read more]( Medical [Prediabetes drug puts brakes on progression to type 2 diabetes]( [Clinical trials of a new prediabetes treatment have delivered promising results]( A once-a-day oral drug to treat prediabetes has produced very promising results in human trials, significantly reducing blood glucose levels. The novel drug could prevent or slow the progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes. [Read more]( Photography [Birdlife in the balance: Winners of the 2024 Audubon Photography Awards]( [Grand Prize Winner: Blackburnian warblers by Mathew Malwitz, Promised Land State Park, Pennsylvania, US]( Celebrating the wonderful, weird world of avian life, the Audubon Photography Awards once again celebrates the professional, amateur and junior nature enthusiasts who have captured special glimpses of birds being birds that most of us never witness. [Read more]( Health & Wellbeing [Hair loss prevented by blocking ancient biological mechanism]( [A healthy hair follicle (left), and one inhibited by a drug that triggered the ISR mechanism preventing hair growth]( A surprise result in a lab experiment has led to the discovery of an ancient biological stress pathway that triggers cells to stop making what's needed to grow hair. Blocking this process could protect follicles from this process and prevent hair loss. [Read more]( Space [EOS-X Space announces upcoming balloon flights to the edge of outer space]( [Flights on the EOS-X capsule may start as early as the end of 2025]( Paying passengers could be flying to the edge of space as soon as next year, but not with the company you might think. Spain's EOS-X Space has announced that it's nearing finalization of a capsule that will be hoisted heavenward by a giant balloon. [Read more]( Energy [Green hydrogen breakthrough swaps in water for iridium]( [Hydrogen holds the most promise when it is produced via green methods]( Hydrogen shows a lot of promise as a powerful, clean fuel source – as long as the process that creates it is also green. A new report shows how tough it might be to get to truly green hydrogen, while a new study removes a barrier to its creation. [Read more]( Bicycles [$1,100 low-step fat-tire ebike opens more routes to more riders]( [1,000-W peak motor, 60-mile battery and Shimano gears]( CyCrown is looking to get more folks riding with a low-step fat-tire ebike rolling a 1-kW motor for Class 3 riding in the city plus a 60-mile battery for heading into the wild. But perhaps the most attractive feature is the relatively low ticket price. [Read more]( Medical [Shockwave-shooting 'space hairdryer' regrows heart tissue in patients]( [Lead researcher Johannes Holfed holds the "space hairdryer" during a bypass operation]( It turns out that blasting people with shockwaves during open-heart surgery is a really good idea. That's what researchers found who used the technique to reactivate heart cells and improve the post-op lives of patients in a groundbreaking study. [Read more]( Biology [Never-before-seen dinosaur’s unique headgear earns it a godly name]( [Lokiceratops rangiformis is a distant cousin of the Triceratops]( A never-before-seen species of horned, herbivorous dinosaur, a predecessor of the Triceratops, has been unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah. And its showy, distinctive headgear has earned it a name reminiscent of a god. [Read more]( Military [Updated mobile missile system targets NATO rearming efforts]( [The GMARS]( Rheinmetall has taken the wraps off GMARS, the new Global Mobile Artillery Rocket System developed with Lockheed Martin. It could be the future of NATO land missile systems thanks to its advanced features and compatibility with current systems. [Read more]( Technology [Claude 3.5 AI doubles in speed, outperforms ChatGPT on multiple fronts]( [Anthropic Claude Sonnet 3.5 was used to make an 8-bit-looking side-scroller game in minutes]( With ChatGPT being used colloquially to represent nearly everything AI, lesser-known Chat AI models like Claude are sometimes overlooked. Today, Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 3.5 with some features you'll likely find not only impressive but incredibly useful. [Read more]( Good Thinking [Who needs north? GPS compass points to a place of your choice]( [The Truest North Compass is presently on Kickstarter]( While most compasses have a needle that points north, the Truest North Compass is different. Its main needle always points to a location of your choice, while its secondary needle shows the distance to that place. [Read more]( Health & Wellbeing [Deliberately-infected-human study shows why some of us don't get COVID]( [Participants in the study were screened to ensure that they wouldn't suffer severe consequences from deliberate infection with SARS-CoV-2]( A group of volunteers in the UK let scientists put the SARS-CoV-2 virus up their noses for research investigating why some of us naturally avoid getting COVID-19. This first-of-its-kind study opens the door to better vaccines and treatments. [Read more]( You are receiving this email because you signed up for our daily newsletter at [newatlas.com]( (or [gizmag.com]( before August 2016). [Update profile]( | [Unsubscribe]( Copyright New Atlas © 2022