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A roof paint that can cool your home and pull fresh water straight out of the air? It's within reach, as scientists scale up production of a new kind of paint-like coating that shields roofing from the sun's rays and harvests dew from its surface.
Tags: University of Sydney, Paint, Sustainable, Cooling, Building Facades, Climate Crisis, Environmentally-friendly
Why have just one technological breakthrough when you can have two at the same time? The Royal Navy has installed for the first time a quantum clock into its XV Excalibur robotic submarine for extended precise underwater navigation.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: Royal Navy, Submarine, Autonomous Vehicles, Quantum Physics
Starting cannabis use before the age of 15 may set the stage for future health struggles, according to a new study linking early cannabis use to higher odds of both mental and physical health problems in young adulthood.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Adolescents, Cannabis, mental health, Teens, McGill University
A finger is among the least practical places possible to strap a watch, and even watches themselves have become a fairly impractical redundancy in the smartphone age. And yet, we want the new Casio G-Shock Nano anyway. A lot. Following up on the 50th anniversary edition ring watch Casio introduced last year, the new Nano adds a beefier build with 200-m (660-ft) water resistance, shock resistance and a working miniaturized strap. This one is truly a G-Shock shrunken down to ring finger size.
Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology
It was late 2013 when I bought my first dash cam. I used to commute from Reno, Nevada, out to Salt Lake City, Utah and once or twice a week at night. It was 502 miles door to door, and I could do it in about 7.5 hours. Let me tell you, a lot of wild stuff happens on I-80 across the great barren expanses of Nevada in the middle of the night.
Category: Automotive, Transport
We're getting down to the business end of one of the best annual competitions, the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards. After nearly 10,000 entries, the finalists have been unveiled – and we've picked out some favorites.
Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Art, Photographers, Awards, Animals, Images
Blurring the line between biology and robotics, Chinese scientists are taking biomimicry to new depths with a small, low-energy bionic jellyfish that's so lifelike in form and movement it’s almost indistinguishable from the real thing.
Tags: drones, Biomimetic, Biomimicry, Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, Underwater drones, jellyfish, Robots
This light-filled tiny house combines compact dimensions with a focus on daylight and home comforts. Featuring an extra-wide interior, it squeezes in a well-proportioned kitchen, a downstairs bedroom, and a bathroom with a bathtub.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
I've been a plane aficionado for as long as I can remember. I'm not exactly a plane "nut," but I think I might know a bit more than the average person who isn't a pilot. Yet somehow, I'd never heard of this story until I stumbled across it at random.
Tags: World Records, Cessna, xxShowcase, Flight, Museum
A new study of exceptionally long-lived Rottweilers revealed that keeping their testes longer may help them age more gracefully, offering fresh clues for how hormones shape frailty and resilience in both dogs and humans.
Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Comparative medicine, Dogs, Aging, Healthy aging, Hormones
They may be better known for stir-fries than supercomputing, but shiitake mushrooms have now been harnessed to function as living processors, storing and recalling data like a semiconductor chip but with almost no environmental footprint.
Category: Computers, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Ohio State University, Mushrooms, Fungus, Semiconductors, Chips, Neural Network, RAM, Green+Technology, sustainable design, Natural compounds
You can now get astride an MV Agusta without totally breaking the bank – well, at least not by a whole lot more than you'd spend for other middleweight naked motorcycles, anyway.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: MV Agusta, Naked bike
A new study has looked into whether electric cars are really better for the environment than gas-powered cars. It turns out that this is indeed the case: after two years of use, EVs start reducing their total carbon footprint compared to gas cars.
Category: Environment, Science
Tags: Transport, Electric Vehicles, Greenhouse emissions, Emissions
Imagine pulling over for a coffee and gaining another 60 miles of range before your cup cools. That’s the kind of promise BBM Motorcycles is making with its new Hiro platform. The Spanish-built modular EV aims to blend rapid charging with everyday versatility — and in doing so, it might just rewrite the rules for small-to-mid electric motorcycles.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Catching up with the latest viral TikToks on your smartphone or getting lost in mobile gaming can be a strain on the eyes. E Ink alternatives are few and far between, and they can be pricey for what you get. Bigme has now launched more budget-friendly options.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: E-Ink, smartphones, Android, Productivity, 4G
I stood in the windy desert of Nevada watching one vehicle after the next launch out of the inflatable arch and into the sand ahead. Cheers and engine blips marked each exit from the Rebelle Rally base camp. These women were heading out into the unknown with nothing more than a map and a pencil to guide them. It was pretty badass.
Category: Automotive, Transport
How did a guitar that failed to grab its intended market – the market it was literally named after – end up becoming the instrument of choice across surf-rock, post-punk, new wave, power pop, shoegaze and more?
Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Fender, Guitar, Instrument, Retro, Features
For decades, the end-stage life of a subduction zone existed only in theory. Now, for the first time in geologic history, scientists are bearing witness to the Juan de Fuca Plate tearing apart and slowly losing its connection to the upper mantle. This is the first clear glimpse of what happens when one of Earth’s most powerful engines begins to wind down.
Category: Science
Tags: Geology, Earthquake, Earth
As its name suggests, the Weekender isn't really intended for full-time living. However, the compact tiny house offers a well-designed, light-filled interior that's well-suited to regular travel and short stays.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, Home, House
It's well known that deadly snakes strike very swiftly, and it is easy to infer that if you’re unlucky enough to be bitten, the moment of contact will be as simple as it is sudden: a lightning-quick penetration that precipitates an emergency. It may be unsettling therefore to view the results of very recent research that has captured, on ultra-slow motion video, the attack styles of 36 very venomous serpents.
Tags: Snakes, Monash University