Remarkable new findings about the sugar stores in neurons have unlocked an entire new method of treating Alzheimer's disease and other cognitive decline, and it goes a long way to explaining why there's a growing body of evidence linking GLP-1 weight loss drugs to protection from dementia.

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Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body & Mind

Tags: Buck Institute, Dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Brain, Neuroscience, GLP-1 receptor agonists, Glucose, neurons

A fungus that is thought to have claimed the lives of several excavators working on King Tutankhamun's burial site has had a serious image makeover, thanks to scientists discovering that it holds powerful cancer-fighting properties. It now opens the door to new and effective treatments for leukemia.

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Category: Cancer, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind

Tags: University of Pennsylvania, Leukemia, Fungus, Drug development, Cancer, Disease

One of the most livable, high-functioning Australian hybrid caravans we've seen in years, the new Iconn E4 XK from Lifestyle Campers offers enough space for a family of five combined with a deluxe feature set. Its entire side wall is a massive gourmet kitchen that'll support a small army of overland chefs, and its floor plan is a spacious, flexible space that adapts to each individual buyer. Best of all, the 22.6-foot (6.9-m) hypercamper is already touring the Australian Outback and is on its way to the US.

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Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Caravan, trailers, Trailer, Off-road, Off-grid, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, RV

How do you relocate an entire 8,270-ton, 43,380-sq-ft (4,030 sq m), 100-year-old Shikumen brick building complex so you can build a multi-level subterranean shopping center, parking lot and subway connections under it? With robots, of course.

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Category: Architecture, Technology

Tags: Robotic construction, China, Artificial Intelligence, Construction

Honey produced by some species of Australian stingless bees possesses impressive bacteria- and fungi-killing properties, according to new research. With problems of antimicrobial resistance, the golden syrup has the potential to be used alongside or in place of existing antibiotics.

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Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind

Tags: Honey, Bees, Antimicrobial, University of Sydney

Electric-hybrid aircraft have taken another step from the exotic to the practical with VoltAero unveiling the production model of its Cassio 330 five-seat regional passenger aircraft that combines quiet efficiency with the most spacious cabin in its class.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: Hybrid, Aircraft

As construction continues on Bentley's car-elevating skyscraper in Miami, Florida, the British luxury automaker has taken the wraps off its penthouse suite and put it up for sale. The plush residence goes big on comfort and amenities – though has a price tag to match.

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Category: Architecture, Technology

Tags: Bentley, Miami, Building and Construction, Skyscrapers, Luxury

Here's a rather novel way to keep trash out of landfills: engineering biologists at the University of Edinburgh have developed a way to turn the common plastic used for disposable bottles into the popular painkiller paracetamol. All it takes is a bit of bacteria and time to ferment the treated waste.

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Category: Materials, Science

Tags: Bacteria, Painkillers, University of Edinburgh

The first robot I remember is Rosie from The Jetsons, soon followed by the urbane C-3PO and his faithful sidekick R2-D2 in The Empire Strikes Back. But my first disembodied AI was Joshua, the computer in WarGames who tried to start a nuclear war – until it learned about mutually assured destruction and chose to play chess instead.

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Category: AI & Humanoids, Technology

Tags: LLM (Large Language Model), Robots, Soft Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence, Human Enhancement, Future Robot, Features

Dutch e-mobility outfit Urban Arrow has announced the US launch of its latest front-loader cargo ebike, one that the company says is a viable alternative to the family's second car for the school run or weekly shop.

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Category: Bicycles, Transport

Tags: cargo bike, ebikes, Pedal-assisted, Bosch

The evolutionary ladder is meant to be climbed one rung at a time with an organism shedding some traits and gaining others on the way up. However, in a very surprising twist, some tomatoes on the Galapagos islands are inching back down the ladder.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Plants, Evolution, UC Riverside, Genetics

An electric motorcycle bearing a Honda badge is bound to attract serious attention – and lately, the rumor mill has been buzzing. Has Honda finally launched its first fully functional electric motorcycle? You might’ve seen headlines suggesting as much, but there’s more to the story than meets the eye.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Honda, Honda Motorcycles, China, Electric Motorcycles, cafe racer

Nope, we're not talking about a Tesla Robotaxi we’re talking about. This is the self-driving ID. Buzz, a fully autonomous van created and engineered by Volkswagen’s mobility-focused sub-brand, MOIA. Unlike retrofitted cars, the ID. Buzz has been built from the ground up specifically for mobility services.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Volkswagen, Van, Electric Vehicles, Mobility, Autonomous Vehicles, Self-Driving, Taxi, Tesla, Waymo

After years of watching highway-touring RVs and off-road expedition vehicles get more and more expensive to the point of rivaling a lifetime's worth of luxury resort vacations, the past few years have seen a concerted effort to roll back pricing and unnecessary features. Joining some of the barebones teardrop-size trailers that have led the trend, the new M1 Lite camping topper maintains some of the best attributes of Tune Outdoors' popular M1 topper while shaving off unnecessary bulk and expense to create a smart, fast and light Toyota Tacoma-ready truck camping solution with eyes on the backcountry.

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Category: Pickup Campers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Camping, Off-road, RV, Outdoors and Camping, Pickup, Truck, Overland Expo

InMotion sent me its flagship long-distance scooter made for big-n-tall folk – such as myself – for a review, and I have to say, after my first ride, I'm actually kind of shocked. While I haven't ridden a whole slew of makes and models, I do have well over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of scooting about in recent times.

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Category: Urban Transport, Transport

Tags: Segway, Scooter, Electric Vehicles, Electric

In what seems like HAL 9000 come to malevolent life, a recent study appeared to demonstrate that AI is perfectly willing to indulge in blackmail, or worse, as much as 89% of the time if it doesn't get its way or thinks it's being switched off. Or does it?

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Category: Computers, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, LLM (Large Language Model)

After more than two decades of planning and building, the world's largest digital camera at the heart of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile has snapped its first imagery – from test observations spanning a 10-hour window.

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Category: Space, Science

Tags: Telescope, Observatory, SLAC, Cameras, Astrophotography, Astronomy, Imaging

ESA has found a way to make its own solar eclipses more or less on demand and all it took was a pair of robotic spacecraft flying in a formation precise to within a millimeter of each other thousands of miles from Earth. Simple.

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Category: Space, Science

Tags: ESA, Sun, ECLIPSE

The Fairphone Gen 6 is here, and in addition to being repairable at home, it packs a neat little trick. A bright lime green physical slider instantly activates a dumbphone mode so you can focus on more important things than doomscrolling.

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Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Phone, Fairphone, smartphones, Repair, Modular, sustainable design

United Kingdom-based Enola Gaye has nearly 30 years of experience selling a multi-colored array of smoke and paint grenades for use in sports like paintball and airsoft, as well as for celebrations and special effects. The company has spun off a survival branch that applies smoke grenade-inspired design to products like the Ultimate Match, a powerful, weather-resistant firestarter that shoots out a mini inferno to spark flammable material into a warming fire. Simply pull the pin and get 'er burning.

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Category: Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Outdoors and Camping, Camping, Survival, Emergency, Backpacking