Crash

Older adults who are new to migraines are more than three times as likely to crash their motor vehicle in the first year after diagnosis than others. The findings highlight a new road risk for seniors who may benefit from counseling about safe driving.

The mystery of flight MAF370, which vanished over the Indian Ocean with all hands, has baffled the world for nine years, but now a geoscientist at the University of South Florida may have found a surprising way to locate the wreck using barnacles.

The Hövding airbag collar that we first covered in 2010 when it was originally shown off to the world by its inventors, industrial designers Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin, has now officially gone on sale.

Sierra Nevada Corporation carried out the first gliding approach and landing test of their Dream Chaser spacecraft last Saturday. While tests of gliding and landing maneuvers went flawlessly, the left landing gear did not deploy, causing the test spacecraft to flip on landing.

Recent tests by Swedish insurance company Folksam suggest that, when it comes to direct impact tests, the Hövding airbag collar beats the competition hands down.

The Hövding (Chieftain) is an airbag collar called that inflates to enclose the head of a cyclist in the event of an accident.