Month: April 2019

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These Ultra-Limited Aston Martin V12 Vantages Are Absurdly Cool

Attention, Aston Martin lovers: one of the British brand’s greatest and most exclusive supercars is making a comeback. 

A new company called R-Reforged is reviving the rare V12 Zagato—which was first introduced in 2011 and based on the Aston Martin V12 Vantage—to celebrate 60 years of collaborations between the luxury Italian coachbuilder and and English automotive marque.  

They’re officially called the Aston Martin V12 Zagato Heritage Twins because R-Reforged is building both coupe and speedster versions. Only 19 of each will be produced, for a total of 38 vehicles. 

All will be expertly assembled by Vynamic GmbH—the same Aston subsidiary that’s working on the 1,160-horsepower Valkyrie hypercar, as Top Gear notes.  

Specs and price have yet to be revealed, but they’ll obviously pack a beastly V12 engine, perhaps even the same 580-hp 6.0-liter found in the original V12 Zagato. 

It’s also promised that the pair will “combine the highest craftsmanship with the extraordinary design language of the 1950s and 1960s.” 

The Aston Martin V12 Zagato Heritage Twins are due out by year’s end. Head to R-Reforged’s website to inquire. 

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No safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy, suggest researchers

An international group of researchers has taken one of the first major steps in finding the biological changes in the brain that drive fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. New work using chaos theory to analyze brain signals shows the long-term effects. Researchers found that teenagers who were exposed to alcohol while in the womb showed altered brain connections that were consistent with impaired cognitive performance.
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New fallout from ‘the collision that changed the world’

When India slammed into Asia, the collision changed the configuration of the continents, the landscape, global climate and more. Now scientists have identified one more effect: the oxygen in the world’s oceans increased, altering the conditions for life. They created an unprecedented nitrogen record destined to become one of the fundamental datasets for biogeochemical history of Earth.
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A spoonful of peppermint helps the meal go down

When treated with peppermint oil, 63 percent of patients with disorders of the esophagus that cause difficulty swallowing and non-cardiac chest pain reported feeling much or slightly better, report researchers. Eighty-three percent of patients with spastic disorders of the esophagus reported feeling better. Peppermint is an attractive first-line treatment because it has few side effects and can be taken as needed by patients.