In the quiet countryside of Zayas de Báscones, Spain, a subtle architectural form is beginning to take shape. Designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, a new winery is set to become more than a place to make wine. When completed, the Bodegas Dominio d’Echauz winery will serve as an archive, a laboratory, and a sanctuary dedicated to protecting and studying endangered grape varieties.

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Category: Architecture, Lifestyle

Tags: Wine, Sustainability, Vineyard, Thermal mass, Hemp

In an effort to reduce the use of precious land to build renewable energy storage facilities, the Fraunhofer Institute has been cooking up a wild but plausible idea: dropping concrete storage spheres down to the depths of our oceans.

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Category: Energy, Technology

Tags: Underwater, Battery

A couple of years ago, Yamaha launched a new sub-brand aimed at offering ebike riders a battery swap option. Now ENYRING has partnered with Swobbee to build swapping stations in two European cities.

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Category: Bicycles, Transport

Tags: Yamaha, ebikes, Battery Technology

A fleet of 100 electric driverless coal-mining trucks has been put into operation in Mongolia, coordinated by AI running on a 5G-A network. The project is expected to grow, bringing new safety and efficiency to China's coal-mining industry.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Mining, Coal, Truck, Autonomous Vehicles, Electric truck, China

We've seen fungi being used to create useful new materials for construction, fire-retardant building insulation, and even 3D-printed batteries.

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Category: Materials, Science

Tags: Fungus, Mushrooms, Plastic, Empa

Who needs windows when you can have superefficient transonic passenger flight? That seems to be the reasoning behind Otto Aviation's Phantom 3500 jet aircraft that dumps the portholes in favor of super-laminar flow to lose weight and burn less fuel.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: Otto Aviation, Aircraft, Transonic

When picturing a flock of flamingos, we often imagine long pink legs planted in a shallow lake and heads submerged as they filter feed. Though it looks peaceful, there’s a lot going on beneath the surface. These birds are manifesting storms of swirling tornadoes, using their webbed feet and angled L-shaped beak to help them capture prey.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Animals, Feeding, Water of Life

Doctors who dismiss or trivialize patients’ symptoms can cause long-lasting harm, according to a new study. This “medical gaslighting” can not only cause feelings of shame and anger but can also lead people to stop seeking medical help altogether.

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Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind

Tags: Medical conditions, Signs and symptoms, Health care, Medical professionals, Rutgers University

If you need an excuse to turn off the laptop over the weekend or rein in overtime, scientists have found that working extended hours actually changes parts of the brain linked to emotional regulation, working memory and solving problems. While we know the toll that "overwork" takes physically and mentally, the precise neurological impact has not been well understood.

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Category: Mental Health, Brain Health, Body & Mind

Tags: Brain, mental health, Cognitive functioning, Workplace, Memory, Health

UK company CompoCloset is already known for portable toilets with particularly clean, boxy, white designs. Its latest promises to be the cleanest operator yet. A mashup of separating and auto-sealing toilet designs, the new S1 seeks to provide the best individual processing options for both urine and feces. The company calls it the world's first separating/sealing toilet, and it looks like it could be just the ticket to the ultimate off-grid toileting experience.

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Category: Outdoors, Lifestyle

Tags: Toilet, Off-grid, Camping

If you should see an extremely cool little car rolling down the streets of Oslo, Berlin, Vienna or Brussels sometime soon, check to see if it's being pedaled. If it is, there's a good chance that it's a Frikar e-quadcycle, which is now available in four countries.

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Category: Urban Transport, Transport

Tags: Quadricycle, ebikes, Velomobile

Researchers in the Netherlands have created mechanical structures that strangely shrink – or more precisely, snap inward – instead of stretching outward when pulled.

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Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Structural Mechanics, Shape-shifting

A couple of months ago, New Jersey ebike maker Velotric unleashed a multi-terrain fat-tire adventure model with impressive cargo hauling and towing chops. Now there's an even more capable Nomad.

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Category: Bicycles, Transport

Tags: ebikes, Pedal-assisted, cargo bike, Adventure Bikes

You already know when you are feeling highly stressed, but low-grade background stress is harder to detect. A new dental flosser from researchers at Tufts University aims to make it easier by monitoring the chemistry of your saliva.

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Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind

Tags: Dental, Flossing, Tufts University, Cortisol, Stress

Sleeping long has a negative effect on brain performance, especially in people who are depressed, according to the findings of a new study. It suggests that sleep might be a modifiable risk factor for cognitive decline in people with depression.

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Category: Brain Health, Body & Mind

Tags: Sleep, Cognitive functioning, Depression, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

In a new study, researchers identified a molecule produced by a particular type of brain cell that reversed the cognitive decline seen in both healthy aging and dementia. It provides a deeper understanding of the aging process and a potential target for future treatments.

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

Tags: Brain, Healthy aging, Alzheimer's disease, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, University of Sao Paulo

The Hailie Smartinhaler, from med-tech company Adherium, improves asthma control by ensuring inhalers are used effectively and at the right time. It has been assisting American asthmatics since 2017; now its makers want it to be available to Aussie asthmatics, too.

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Category: Medical Devices, Medical Innovations, Body & Mind

Tags: Asthma, Asthma inhaler, Smartinhaler, Treatment

Life-sized papier-mâché birds are popping up in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park (GTNP) this spring, and they're quite a sight. By this we mean something you certainly wouldn't want to encounter while hiking at night. But there's more to these fake greater sage-grouse models than meets the eye.

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Category: Environment, Science

Tags: National Parks, Animal science, Craft, Conservation, Wildlife, Birds, Dance, Polaris Ranger

Get ready to bend knee to a new king: the all-new Project H2 from Kawasaki, soon to debut as the world's most powerful side-by-side (SxS). After years of letting Polaris and Can-Am wrestle each other off the throne, Kawasaki is punching its way into the high-powered UTV battle with a beastly new supercharged machine. It'll be something of a four-wheeled Ninja H2 meant to hard-right off-pavement onto dirt, rock and dust, with at least one horrified passenger on board.

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Category: Outdoors, Lifestyle

Tags: Kawasaki, Side-by-side, utv, Polaris, Can-Am, Off-road, ATV

As agriculture tries to clean up its act, the roar of the diesel engine is likely to become a thing of the past in the countryside. But electric farmers don't want to their battery-powered machinery idling for hours charging. The ONOX tractor's modular hotswap approach could help.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Prototype, Farming, Electric Vehicles, Agriculture, Modular