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By now, you've no doubt heard that modern living is filling our bodies with microplastics. But an alarming study now shows just how much of the non-degradable particles are in our brains, and how much higher they are in dementia patients.
Category: Brain Health, Body & Mind
Tags: Microplastic, Brain, Plastics, Plastic, Plastic waste, Water Bottle, University of New Mexico
Since 2012, UK-based Power Roll has been working on a way to print low-cost solar film to generate clean energy from sunlight. It's now one crucial step closer to manufacturing its lightweight, apply-anywhere film, with a new design for its perovskite solar cells that should make make production cheap and scalable.
Category: Energy, Technology
Tags: Solar Cell, Solar Power, Perovskite, Flexible
A new look into the private lives of chimpanzees has found that the primates settle disagreements with close friends by rubbing genitals together, a behavior previously that's commonly seen in their closely related bonobos. This study sheds light on where human sexual behavior originated, some six million years ago.
Tags: Sex, Chimpanzees, Durham University
Gaming is the world’s largest entertainment genre (with roughly seven times the annual revenue of either music OR movies), and video game prices at auction are at unprecedented levels – but only sealed video games get those prices and with video game antiquity so recent, and the heyday of video game arcades now in the rearview mirror, many historically significant machines are being ignored and undervalued.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: RR Auction, Atari, Pong, Games
Designed to rip 90% of a backpacker's load off their back and hips and drop it onto wheels, the X-Trek from French gear company Tactical 13 is a versatile hiking and wilderness expedition tool. It stays light and lithe by using hiking poles as part of its frame, quickly transforming into a backpack for when flat, smooth hikes turn into steep, rocky scrambles. Enjoy a more comfortable trek while bringing along provisions you'd otherwise leave behind – like stream-cooled après beverages.
Tags: Trailer, trailers, Cargo, Hiking, Backpacking, Backpacks, Outdoors and Camping, Lightweight
People with bipolar disorder who followed a ketogenic diet for at least six weeks found that their symptoms improved, a new study has found. While the study was small and preliminary, its findings open the door to a new treatment direction for the sometimes difficult-to-treat condition.
Category: Mental Health, Brain Health, Body & Mind
Tags: Bipolar Disorder, Ketogenic diet, metabolism, University of Edinburgh
Remember the AC Cobra? Yup, the iconic car that pays homage to the iconic Shelby Cobra of the 1960s. It’s set to make its North American debut in the form of the new Swedish-made Cobra GT Roadster, at the ModaMiami auto show later this month.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Although there are now a number of multitools that sport tiny adjustable wrenches, the TiSpanner was the first to do so. It's now available in a larger and beefier third-generation incarnation, aptly named the TiSpanner 3.0.
Tags: Multitools, Wrench, Titanium, Kickstarter
The world's top DLP projector brand has launched a dual-laser 4K projector that's aimed at installation pros as well as home cinema enthusiasts. The HCPro-4400 is designed to dominate with "unmatched clarity and vibrant color precision."
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Optoma, 4K UHD, Projectors, home theater, Laser
The quest to resurrect the woolly mammoth on Earth has taken another, well, small step with the creation of the Colossal Woolly Mouse. The lab-engineered rodents have seven genes that have been tweaked by scientists, giving them "core traits" of the grand extinct beasts.
Category: Science
Tags: Wooly mammoth, Genetics, Genetic engineering, Animals, Conservation, Extinction, Environment, CRISPR
Leading 3D-printing firm Icon has revealed plans to build a dozen new residences in Austin, Texas. The homes will feature an eye-catching mix of cutting-edge 3D printing and traditional building techniques, and will have two levels.
Category: Architecture, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, 3D Printing, House, Home
Italy has produced many of the fastest race car drivers on the planet, and now also the fastest car-driving AI. Self-driving software engineered by a team at the country's largest science and tech university has set a new record for the quickest speed achieved in an autonomous car – a blistering 197.7 mph (318 km/h).
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Land+Speed+Records, Autonomous Vehicles, Self-Driving, Maserati, World's Fastest
NASA has released a new image providing photographic evidence of Boom Supersonic's XB-1 prototype aircraft breaking the sound barrier. Captured on the second supersonic flight, it used a special imaging technique to record the historic event.
Tags: Boom, Aircraft, Supersonic, Imaging
Auction prices for original Apple iPhones have been surging since 2022 and the next big auction prize fight is set for 20 March, 2025 where we expect the US$190,000 record iPhone price to be challenged yet again. Here's why
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: iPhone, Apple, Apple-1 Computer, RR Auction
Airstream's Basecamp series already represents its best trailers for getting far off the beaten path, through the woods, over rivers and up mountain peaks. The all-new Basecamp Xe gives the series an extra leg up when escaping any sign of human-made earthen alteration, bringing on a high-powered all-electric camping architecture that powers all the primal necessities and modern conveniences with an upsized solar-charged battery bank.
Tags: Airstream, Caravan, electric-camper, Trailer, trailers, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Off-road, Off-grid
"Smart" is everywhere. From smart cars to smart refrigerators, new technology vows to make human life easier. And while motorcycle helmets have long been all about protection, Sena has just made its new range of helmets smart.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Helmets, Sena, Harman Kardon, Smart Helmet, Artificial Intelligence
Although it technically is possible to recycle Plexiglass, it's a complex and inefficient process, so it generally just isn't done. A simple new technique, however, is claimed to break the plastic down into all of its building blocks for near-complete recycling.
Tags: ETH Zurich, Plastics, Recycling, Polymer
New Jersey's Velotric has unleashed the second generation of its fat-tire adventure ebike to "power through challenging landscapes and city streets with equal ease." The Nomad 2 can also take more than 500 pounds along for the ride.
Tags: ebikes, Pedal-assisted, Off-road
A clinical trial to test the effectiveness of a new, plant-based oral drug to treat type 2 diabetes has produced some promising results. The drug significantly improved blood glucose control and boosted heart and liver health. Larger clinical studies are pending.
Category: Diabetes, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind
Tags: Type 2 diabetes, blood-glucose, Traditional medicine, clinical trials
The whole mobile world is heading to Barcelona this week for Mobile World Congress 2025, and of the raft of Xiaomi gadgets on display is a magnetic attachment aimed at giving its smartphones a photographic boost.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Xiaomi, smartphones, Cameras, Modular, Lens, Mobile World Congress 2025