Daily Mail: Terrafugia—a private company located in Woburn, Massachusetts—has developed a “roadable aircraft,” which can take off from an airport runway and fly like a plane or can be driven on the road like a car. The wings extend and retract at the push of a button from inside the cockpit, and only the most basic pilot’s license is required to operate it, as well as a valid driver’s license. However, one has time to save up the $194 000 asking price, because the vehicle won’t be available until the end of 2011. A flying car, a jet-powered AMC Matador, appeared in the 1974 James Bond movie The Man with The Golden Gun.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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