A sharp, new twist on the classic moka pot, the Turbo Moka packs a unique design that deletes the line between function and flair. The series of gnarled ridges and channels that encircle its base are designed to increase surface area and better focus flames on efficiency-boosted heating. Long story short, your morning coffee will make it to your mug in half the time.

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Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle

Tags: Coffee, Product alternatives, Cookware, Kitchen, Cooking

The tons of discarded mussel shells generated by the seafood industry may be organic, but they're still very slow to biodegrade in landfills. They may soon find new life, however, sandblasting jeans in the textile industry.

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Category: Environment, Science

Tags: University of the Basque Country, MIT, Textile, Recycling, Waste

Wind turbines are essential to the global shift away from fossil fuels, but what happens when their blades reach the end of their service lifespan? Often, they end up in landfills, which obviously isn't ideal. With that problem in mind, an architect has come up with a clever idea: using the retired rotor blades as a building material.

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Category: Architecture, Technology

Tags: Building and Construction, Recycled, Wind turbine, Parking

Researchers have homed in on a single gut microbe that acts to prevent fat gain, even with a high-fat diet. The discovery adds to the booming science of finding ways to enlist the microbes that already live in our bodies to help us improve our health.

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Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: Microbes, Gut Bacteria, Gut health, Microbiome, Obesity, Weight Loss, University of Utah

For anyone who ever wanted to own an insane track bike producing a whopping 220 horses courtesy of a dual-rotary 690cc engine, you're in luck. An exclusive Crighton CR700W – one of only 25 that were ever made – is on sale … and it could be yours!

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Wankel, Racing, Superbike

El Segundo, California-headquartered startup Radiant Nuclear is making big moves in its mission to bring its 1-MW microreactors to market.

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Category: Energy, Technology

Tags: microreactor, Reactors, Small Modular Nuclear Reactor, Nuclear, Nuclear Fission

The use of blood-flow restriction (BFR) cuffs that "hack" your physiology to speed up strength and muscle gains when you do light workouts has been growing in popularity in recent years. However, researchers have now discovered that they come with a significant downside – especially the older you get.

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Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: Exercise, Blood Pressure, Murdoch University, Fitness, Walk, Balanced, Age-Related, Aging

If you’re a custom motorcycle builder and there’s one event where you fantasize about showcasing your build, it has to be Japan’s Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show. It’s the crème de la crème of custom shows, being the place you want to be if you want to spot some of the most insane bike builds.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Royal Enfield, Custom Bikes, Choppers, Japan, Twin-engine

RV designs like the retract-a-chassis Touchdown trailer from Dutch innovator Expandable are awe-inspiring in and of themselves. But they're even more so when built to task. One of Expandable's latest builds was created for the Shiver Offroad rally raid team, which will be competing for the Dakar crown in just a few weeks. The Shiver x Expandable 6x6 motorhome is an intensely rare combination of rally-supporting grit, off-grid autonomy and spacious luxury living.

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Category: RVs and Motorhomes, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Transformable, RV, Modular, Motorhomes, Motorhome, Off-road, Off-grid, Travel, Dakar Rally

Snowmobiles are an effective means of moving across the snow and ice, but for many tasks they're … well, they're more of a vehicle than you need. The Snowdog is a simpler alternative, and it's now available in an electric model known as the SnowdogX.

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Category: Snowmobiles, Toys, Outdoors

Tags: Snowmobiles, Winter, Electric Vehicles

Sending a rover into space to explore other celestial bodies comes with a dizzying array of challenges, and one of the most complex is ensuring the vehicle doesn't break down out there.

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Category: Space, Science

Tags: Space exploration, Moon, Rover, Wheel, KAIST

Although they're constantly improving, robots aren't necessarily known for their gentle touch. A new robotic system from MIT and Stanford takes a unique stab at changing that, with a robot that uses vine-like tendrils to do its lifting.

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Category: Robotics, Technology

Tags: MIT, Stanford University, Robot

A team of Australian bodyboarding ratbags has managed to capture staggering footage of an extraordinary oceanic phenomenon: a place where four 12-ft (3.7-m) waves regularly converge into an oval dip, with explosive results.

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Category: Marine, Transport

Tags: Video, Wave, Ocean, Crazy

A bacterium from the intestines of Japanese tree frogs has "exhibited remarkably potent" tumor-killing abilities when administered intravenously, outperforming current standard therapies and paving the way for an entirely new approach to treating cancer.

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Category: Cancer, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind

Tags: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Cancer, Tumor, Microbiome, Bacteria, Gut Bacteria, Cancer Tissue, Frogs

Ever fly Economy and felt like you were being tortured by the seat? It turns out that you're not being fussy, the seats really are horrible from an ergonomic point of view, which is why you're suffering. Oh, and that might be by design.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: Ergonomic, Aircraft, Seat, xxShowcase

Hangzhou is the latest city in China to take traffic control to a new level, rolling out a new AI-powered robot police officer to direct vehicles and pedestrians at a major intersection and issue polite warnings to law-breakers.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Robots, Police, Traffic, China, Artificial Intelligence, Humanoid

When nights stay warm, the body struggles to cool down, a key signal for drifting into deep sleep. Heat doesn't just shorten sleep; it disrupts its rhythm, sparks dehydration, and keeps the nervous system on alert.

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Category: Sleep, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: Sleep, Climate Crisis, Heating

There aren’t many cars with appeal as enduring as the original Honda NSX. Its beautiful, low-slung styling, the sheer dearth of examples you can find today, and its genuine ability to compete with European sports cars all contribute to its legend. Now, 35 years after the first-generation NSX came into being, the sports car is receiving a beautiful, and more importantly, purposeful, makeover.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Honda, Pininfarina, Supercars, MOD, Japanese, Custom

When you're camping, you're typically in need of a work surface, plus you're typically surrounded by trees. That's where the Kimberlite Tree Table comes in, as – that's right – it's a packable multi-use platform that you strap to a tree.

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Category: Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Kickstarter, Camping, Modular, Tree

Four years after Ford bravely electrified its best-selling vehicle, the F-150 Lightning pickup, it seemed ready to drop the model owing to slowing demand. Now, it turns out the company's got other plans. It's reengineering the flagship truck for 2026 as an extended range EV (EREV), with a gas generator in tow.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Electric truck, Electric Vehicles, Ford, Truck, Extended-range