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Among other things, tea has already been shown to reduce depression, reduce the risk of diabetes, and possibly even extend its drinkers' lifespans. New research now indicates that tea also removes toxic heavy metals from the water in which it's being brewed.
Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: Northwestern University, Tea, Pollution
BMW has been slowly dropping breadcrumbs about its upcoming Neue Klasse range of electric vehicles (EV) over the last several weeks, and the latest teaser reveals nifty range-extending battery tech.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: BMW, Electric Vehicles, Battery, Battery+Electric+Vehicle
After winning over a hundred thousand iPhone users who wanted to attach a BlackBerry-style keyboard to their handsets, Clicks is now making its physical keyboard cases for a small selection of Android devices. Up first: Google's Pixel 9 and 9 Pro.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Android, Google Pixel, Samsung Galaxy, Keyboard, smartphones, Accessories, Motorola RAZR
While it's great that many types of paper can now be recycled, textile waste is still mostly just dumped or burned (with a few experimental exceptions). A new technique could change that by combining the two materials, using discarded cotton clothing to boost the strength of packaging paper.
Category: Environment, Science
Internal combustion engines have long received flack for how wasteful they are. And while you can't argue about how inefficient they may be, the truth is that internal combustion has led the way for modern transportation since time immemorial.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Exhaust, Pollution, Thermoelectricity, Energy, Ice
A 2022 study of more than 36,000 high-quality MRI brain scans found drinking four units of alcohol a day – two beers, or two glasses of wine – can cause structural damage and brain volume loss equivalent to 10 years of aging. The findings proved to be the tip of the iceberg for researchers looking at how alcohol affects our brain.
Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: Alcohol, University of Pennsylvania, Brain, Aging
You may not know what a springtail is but man, those little things can jump! Scientists have now copied the creatures' jumping mechanism in a small robot that could one day explore places that people can't go.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Tags: Harvard, Biomimicry
Kia's got a bunch of new EVs in the pipeline, and I'm especially jazzed about this EV4 sedan. It's set to arrive stateside later this year, and boasts seriously solid range to give the Tesla Model 3 a run for its money.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Kia, Electric Vehicles, Sedan
After a couple of successful Kickstarters for versions of its book-sized smart telescope, DwarfLab opted to jump straight into production for the Dwarf III. We've recently been out stargazing and wildlife watching with this latest dual-lens budget-friendly sky watcher.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Telescope, Astronomy, Astrophotography, Amateur astronomy, Reviews
Following the release of Microsoft's latest quantum computing chip last week, Amazon has unveiled its first one today, after four years in the making.
Category: Quantum Computing, Science
Tags: Amazon, Quantum, Processing, Chips, Computers
Excavations have found that the brain of what seems to be a human male contained dark glass formed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The effect can't be explained by lava temperatures alone, but rather a different event from the cataclysm.
Category: Science
If you don’t know what a Koraidon is, well, you’re probably not alone. And you're also probably not into Pokémon. Koraidon is a dragon-type Legendary Pokémon that appears in the 2022 game Pokémon Scarlet.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Concept Motorcycles, Honda, Honda Motorcycles, Nintendo, Self-balancing, Japan, Crazy
Energy company Helion is inching closer to its goal of firing up the world's first fusion reactor to produce usable electricity. It's currently considering a property in the city of Malaga, Washington, to set up a 50-MW facility and power Microsoft's data centers.
Category: Energy, Technology
Tags: Helion Energy, Nuclear Fusion, Nuclear, Clean Energy
Even though they're in the animal kingdom's order of Carnivora – carnivorous species – Giant pandas spend up to 16 hours a day on their backsides eating bamboo. But contrary to the many jokes about the intelligence of these black and white bears, scientists have found that it's not because they're too dumb to know better. It's actually far more fascinating – and gives us insights into how what we eat impacts our genes.
Tags: China, Animal science, Diet, Nutrition, Bamboo, Plants, Genetics, RNA, molecular biology
Figure is leveling up its humanoid robot business far more rapidly than any other robotics company I can think of right now. CEO Brett Adcock just announced it plans to begin alpha testing its robots in the home sometime in 2025 – that's two years ahead of schedule.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Looking like something out of a science fiction thriller, Diehl Defence is showing off its CICADA eMissile, which is the centerpiece of the company's Sky Sphere system for defending against Class 1 and 2 small drones with minimal collateral damage.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: drones
Earlier this month we looked at the Flying Whales airship, a hugely ambitious project if ever there was one. A small but critical piece of that floating puzzle, the Evolito axial flux motor – or all 32 of them – will be responsible for powering the big, bloated behemoth forward.
Tags: Electric Motors, Airships, Electric Aircraft
Scientists in China have found a new potential drug target for weight loss. Blocking a protein called CD44 has been shown to protect against obesity in mice on a high-fat diet, specifically by suppressing the formation of white fat cells.
Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind
Tags: Obesity, Diabetes, Weight, Weight Loss, Ozempic, China, Health, Fat cells
The most innovative flip blade of 2025 may not be a knife; it may just be an axe. Columbia River Knife & Tool (CRKT) has bravely taken one of its most unique folding knife designs and adapted it into a sleek, compact axe that packs safely without a sheath and flips into full-on chopping mode in milliseconds. It's the new Provoke X pocket axe, and it's coming to forests, campgrounds and prepper bunkers near you.
Tags: Folding, crkt, Axes, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Survival, Knife, Tactical
If a robot is going to excel at traversing multiple types of terrain, it shouldn't have an unadaptable "Jack of all trades, master of none" body shape. That's where the GOAT robot comes in, as it automatically changes shape depending on the landscape.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Tags: EPFL, Transformable, Shape-shifting