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A bunch of materials called rare earth elements (REE) that are crucial for producing a vast range of tech products – from electric cars to smartphones to wind turbines – typically require destructive mining and processing practices to get them out of the ground. A team of scientists in China might have just found another source for them that's easier to reach: ferns.
Tags: Plants, Metals, Chinese Academy of Sciences
As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic milestone. In late 2026, it will become the first spacecraft to travel so far that a radio signal from Earth takes 24 hours, or one light day, to reach it.
Tags: NASA, Voyager, Spacecraft, Solar System
Our fat tissue could be used to make our bones regrow, with scientists successfully using adipose cells to repair spinal compression fractures. It could change how breaks are treated and improve bone strength in diseases such as osteoporosis.
Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Osaka Metropolitan University, Osteoporosis, Spinal, Fractures, Age-Related, Aging, Stem Cells, Bones
When the Next-Gen Iron humanoid was unveiled to the public earlier this month, strutting fluidly down the runway before a gobsmacked audience, it made headlines – but not for the reasons its creators at Xpeng had hoped. The robot moved so uncannily like a human that people were convinced there was someone inside controling it.
Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology
Tags: Xpeng, Humanoid, Robots, Artificial Intelligence, Robotic construction, Solid-state
What if you could draw energy from the night sky without effort? That's the question that researchers at the University of California, Davis are trying to answer with a new engine that generates power simply by sitting under the clear starry heavens.
Category: Energy, Technology
When talking to tiny house owners, one of the major pain points with embracing a life on wheels is storage – or the lack of it. Decathlon Tiny Homes' New Chapter model tackles this issue with a storage-packed interior layout that's well-suited to full-time small living.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Micro-House, Tiny Footprint, House, Home
Helmet tech has been advancing rather quickly of late. We’ve seen helmets that promise 100% blind-spot elimination, others that filter the air you breathe in, and even the likes of Sena and Cardo jumping in with their respective “smart” helmets.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Helmets, HUD, EICMA 2025, Smart Helmet, Sena, Cardo Systems, Augmented Reality
Scientists have discovered why males get dental disease more frequently and with greater severity than females, pinpointing the specific inflammation driving it. This could help treat gum and tooth decay in both sexes through different interventions.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: University of North Carolina, Dental, Tooth infection, Oral bacteria, Oral hygiene, Inflammation, Cytokines
Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell growth, development, and proper connectivity. This environment is carefully structured and carries signals that guide how cells behave and interact.
Category: Body and Mind
Tags: Brain, Tissue engineering, Model, Neuroscience
Just outside the dense urban fabric of Wuhan, China, a cluster of cabins has appeared amongst the tall dawn redwood forest. Dubbed Secret Camp, the project is part of the Merryda Wiki World retreat, featuring compact dwellings that sit quietly within the serene natural setting.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Eco-Friendly, Cabins, sustainable design, Tiny Footprint
Joby Aviation's latest iteration of its autonomous all-electric S4 air taxi VTOL aircraft has made its maiden flight. The new variant aimed at the defense market boasts a turbine-electric hybrid powertrain for greater range and endurance.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: Joby Aviation, Air Taxis, Flight Tests, Aircraft, Autonomous
What Toyota has done with the 2025 4Runner is evolutionary and well-considered. The new 4Runner sits on the TNGA-F body-on-frame architecture (shared with the Tacoma and Tundra), and that underpins much of what’s compelling (and contentious) about this generation. I drove both the Limited and the Trailhunter models to get to the bottom of it.
Category: Automotive, Transport
In a Phase 3 trial of more than 18,000 volunteers across three countries, an mRNA influenza vaccine from Pfizer has outperformed standard seasonal flu shots by 34.5%. It's yet another sign that this biotechnology is here to stay.
Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Baylor College of Medicine, Pfizer, mRNA vaccines, clinical trials, Influenza, Vaccines
Five is a very unusual number of cylinders for a motorcycle engine, and the most familiar examples graced track-only prototypes that brought world championships in two eras to Honda. If storied Italian brand MV Agusta wanted to focus public attention firmly on hopes for the future, announcing that a five-pot engine would propel a fresh range of bikes would be a neat way to do it.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Allow me to preface the title: Longshot Space wants to build a 6-mile-long (10-km) space cannon to shoot several-ton objects into low Earth orbit (LEO). The company has already built a working proof of concept.
Tags: SpinLaunch, Longshot, Kinetic orbital launchers, Orbit, Android Launchers, Compressed Air, Cannons, Interviews
Jeep is going all out to court thrillseekers with the 2026 Recon SUV. This chunky all-electric 4x4 packs a raft of features for making light work of craggy trails, along with plenty of power under the hood, and creature comforts to boot.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Jeep, Electric Vehicles, SUV, stellantis
MIT researchers have found a way to use the mechanical vibrations of sound waves to shake water molecules free from a storage medium. The breakthrough significantly speeds up the process of harvesting drinking water from thin air.
Category: Technology
Tags: Water, Atmosphere, Environment, MIT
When Verge debuted with its first hubless electric motorcycle in 2022, it created a new visual aesthetic for motorcycles. Now, almost 4 years later, the Finnish-Estonian company is still going strong, upgrading its best-selling electric motorcycle with a bunch of appreciable upgrades.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Hubless, Electric Motorcycles, EICMA 2025, Electric Vehicles, livewire, Zero Motorcycles
DJI's upping the ante for image quality out of its action cams with the new Osmo Action 6. It's the first of its kind to get a variable aperture, and it's got a larger sensor that should make for better photos and videos than its predecessor.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: DJI Innovations, Actioncam, Video
A team of biologists in Australia has developed a scanning device to accurately detect exactly how potent a cannabis plant is, well before it's harvested. And no, it's not for selecting the choicest buds to get blasted with.
Category: Science
Tags: University of Adelaide, Cannabis, scanning, Handheld