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For the first time, researchers have shown that tackling obstructive sleep apnea’s two root causes at once, using both oxygen and a jaw-forwarding device, can dramatically cut breathing interruptions during sleep.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Sleep, Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), Oxygen, Monash University, Harvard
A new study suggests that a father’s COVID-19 infection could do more than make him sick – it may leave marks on his sperm that pass anxiety to his offspring, revealing how viral infections can echo across generations.
Category: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Infections, Epigenetics, Anxiety, Brain, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
For us motorcycle nerds, the best time of the year is here. Long-awaited launches, exciting concepts, and ambitious two-wheelers adorn events like EICMA, the Tokyo Motor Show, and CIMA Motor, among others. This Honda comes from the lattermost as one of the most interesting scooters I’ve seen in a while.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Honda Motorcycles, Honda, Scooter, Adventure Bikes, Off-road, urban transport
Aerospace and defense company Inversion is showing off its solution to getting emergency supplies anywhere on Earth in under an hour. It's a constellation of the company's Arc orbital supply craft, fully stocked and ready to drop at a moment's notice.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: Spaceplane, Emergency, Spacecraft
People with severe chronic pain were far more likely to have elevated levels of eosinophils, a type of white blood cell, a new study found, hinting at an immune link to pain – but the rise in these inflammatory cells didn’t make treatments any less effective.
Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Chronic pain, The Immune System, White blood cells, Allergies, University of Arizona, Florida Atlantic University
Star Wars becomes more than a film franchise title as the British government moves to protect the country's satellites from laser attacks. The £500,000 (US$670,000) investment for new sensor systems is part of a broader strategic realignment.
Category: Military, Technology
Big Freedom Tiny Homes recently completed a new model that showcases how smart space-saving design can maximize limited available floorspace. Measuring a relatively compact length of 30 ft (9.14 m), the tiny house provides a home on wheels suitable for a small family.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Guangzhou, China-based aerial vehicle outfit eHang is throwing down the gauntlet in the air taxi space with the unveiling of its autonomous VT35 eVTOL. This long-range lift- and cruise-capable aircraft was shown off taking to the skies ahead of an official launch event today in Hefei, China, where the company has established a new R&D, testing, and manufacturing hub. You can see it in action below.
Tags: eVTOL, Air Taxis, Flying taxi, Ehang
The Robotin R2 is billed as the world’s first fully autonomous carpet-cleaning robot, combining deep vacuuming, automated washing and intelligent drying in one compact, low-maintenance modular system. And right now, you can get the unit for just US$799 – nearly half its expected retail price.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Kickstarter, Smart Home, Cleaning, Consumer Electronics, Artificial Intelligence, Vacuum cleaner
What naked mole-rats lack in the looks department they make up for it in longevity, living healthily for nearly four decades. Now scientists have uncovered just how they repair their DNA – and it has the potential to be harnessed for humans to do the same.
Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: molecular biology, DNA, Cells, anti-aging, Age-Related, Aging, Animal science
When breathing becomes a daily battle, even the simplest acts can feel exhausting. Now, a new study has found the key to easing chronic breathlessness caused by lung disease: singing.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Lung disease, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Inflammation, Singing, Monash University
One of the simplest truck camper designs we've seen, the Grumpy Bear Arctos Sport arrives looking like a toadstool chopped in half, or a teardrop trailer body on a pedestal. However you look at it, that simple form allows the camper to fit neatly in the pickup bed, without an over-cab alcove hanging off, giving buyers a transformable interior meant for sleeping, eating and relaxing through the evenings. It even has a standing height interior and a 4-season construction meant to stand up to Old Man Winter.
Category: Pickup Campers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: RV, Pickup, Truck, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
Following the launch of a compact low-speed ambulance in July, California's GEM has unveiled an electric utility truck that's designed to haul gear through the neighborhood before heading to wilder work sites.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Truck, utv, Compact, Off-road
A new class of weight-loss drug has shown it can significantly boost weight loss when paired with GLP-1 therapy – without adding side effects – in a mid-stage clinical trial, pointing to a powerful new combination approach to tackling obesity.
Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Obesity, Weight Loss, GLP-1 receptor agonists, clinical trials
Living up to its name, University of Washington spin-off company ZAP Energy's Century system is developing fusion power technology by blasting plasma with super-lightning-like pulses 12 times per minute, without relying on superconducting magnets or laser beams.
Category: Energy, Technology
Tags: Nuclear Fusion, Lightning
A first-of-its-kind study has found that recognizing – and actually using – personal strengths is linked with better wellbeing and fewer mental-health symptoms in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It also mapped which “ADHD strengths” are more commonly self-endorsed, adding nuance to a field that’s often framed around deficits.
Category: ADHD & Autism, Brain Health, Body and Mind
Tags: University of Bath, ADHD, Developmental conditions, Age-Related, mental health, Well-being, Chronic illness
You don’t become one of the world’s top motorcycle component manufacturers for nothing. For the past five years, Brembo has been working to improve the environmental impact of its manufacturing processes – and now, it's claiming a breakthrough.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Motorcycle, Braking, Recycled, Aluminum, Environmentally-friendly, Green+Technology
A large study has found that calcium supplements, long recommended for bone health, particularly in older women, don’t increase dementia risk, offering reassurance for the millions who take them to protect against osteoporosis.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Vitamins and minerals, Dementia, Dietary supplements, Alzheimer's disease, Edith Cowan University, Curtin University, University of Western Australia
The Japan Mobility Show – which brings together major automakers to show off their upcoming vehicles in Tokyo each year – is still a couple of weeks away. Thankfully, we don't have to wait until then to see what Yamaha's got cooking, because it's totally fire.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Yamaha, Concept Motorcycles, Three-Wheeler, Electric Motorcycles
Friendships, community ties and family bonds may apply the brakes to natural cell aging, providing a simple way to invest in health in older age. In a massive new study, scientists have found that social connections are tied to slower biological aging and less chronic inflammation.
Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Cornell University, anti-aging, Biological age, Age-Related, Chronic illness, Inflammation, Epigenetics