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Indomitable VW 4x4 camper bus puts a double roof over the whole family

A year after making its world premiere, the ruggedest camper in Dethleffs' fleet gains some extra space up high, sleeping an entire family anywhere from the local camping resort to the most nonlocal of inhospitable wild lands. The pop-up Globebus Performance 4x4 is just a concept camper for now, but it looks smartly polished enough to make a production debut any time.

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Category: RVs and Motorhomes, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

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Stress and social factors change your gut and brain to drive weight gain

When scientists study obesity and weight-loss treatment, it's most often about genetics, lack of physical activity and poor eating habits. However, new findings show that stress, hardship, isolation and social inequality create the biological environment that underpins the condition that now affects around 40% of US adults.

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Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind

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Has Tesla given up on autonomous driving?

Full self-driving. Tesla’s astonishingly wild promise seems to have gone off the rails. It’s been nearly a decade since Tesla announced that all of its production vehicles would be capable of autonomous driving, with CEO Elon Musk repeatedly stating that it would happen by the end of each year since 2018.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

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"Green Lantern" bacteria light up invisible microplastic particles

One of the problems with microplastics pollution lies in the fact that the plastic particles can be so small, we don't even know they're present in water in the first place. A new type of engineered bacteria could help, by causing those microparticles to glow green.

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Category: Environment, Science

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Beer drinkers 35% more likely to become a magnet for mosquitoes

We don't fully understand why some people appear more attractive to mosquitoes – largely because it's complicated, a tangled web of physiological factors, geography and species. But a new study has found that for some people, the biting insects are partial to the taste of beer.

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Category: Biology, Science

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Sub-Zero-weight tiny camping pump boasts hands-free 1-min inflation

We didn't expect Flextail to let Nitecore's APO5C backcountry micro-inflator stand for too long without firing a counterstrike. And what a strike it is. The all-new Zero 2.0 takes Flextail's already highly popular, benchmark-setting Zero pump to the next level with a lighter build that weighs an even ounce, increased output and a swappable extreme-weather battery system. It's everything backcountry adventurers loved about the original Zero, just enhanced from end to end.

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Category: Gear, Outdoors

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