The simple habit of getting in a daily walk has been shown to have numerous health benefits over the last few years. In a remarkable study, scientists found that taking just 5,000 steps a day can help slow Alzheimer’s disease-related decline. Sounds like an easy win, no?

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Category: Fitness & Exercise, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: Walk, Alzheimer's disease, Exercise, Seniors, University of Melbourne, Mass General Brigham

After two decades under construction, Egypt has officially thrown open the doors to the largest archeological museum in the world, spanning 94 football fields (5.4 million sq ft or 500,000 sq m) and built to house some 100,000 exhibits through millennia, from prehistoric times going as far back as 700,000 BCE, to the Roman era (394 CE).

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Category: History, Science

Tags: Museum, Egypt

An Australian company is preparing to roll out a series of giant, rotating ski barrels designed to make the experience of carving endless fresh snow available to city folk without a long drive. We talk to Snowtunnel co-founder and CEO Scott Kessler.

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Category: Ski and Snowboard, Toys, Outdoors

Tags: Ski, Skiing, ski gadgets, Snow, Sports, Interviews

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.

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Category: Materials, Science

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.

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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.

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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.

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Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Casio, Watch, Watches, MINI

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.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Camera, Traffic, Security, Travel, dashcam

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.

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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.

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Category: Marine, Transport

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.

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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.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Electric Motorcycles, Transport, Electric Vehicles

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.

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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.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Rallying, Racing

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?

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Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Fender, Guitar, Instrument, Retro, Features