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Meet the samurai jellyfish: A striking new species found off Japan

The Portuguese man-of-war, or Physalia, is a jelly-like creature that uses a special gas-filled balloon to float on the sea surface. Physalia inhabits the area where the ocean meets the atmosphere, in contrast to the majority of jellyfish that drift deeper. Its balloon serves as a sail, allowing it to glide with the wind and currents. Large groups may occasionally be carried to coastlines where they are rarely observed due to changing winds and ocean temperatures.

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Category: Biology, Science

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Are bananas the worst ingredient for smoothie nutrition?

Fruit smoothies have become a huge trend in healthy lifestyle world – and for good reason. They are a quick source of vitamins, fiber, and antioxidants, and they take just a few minutes to make! Bananas are the number-one ingredient for a good smoothie. Creamy and naturally sweet, they seem to pair well with pretty much every other fruit ... or do they?

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Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

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This one-bedroom tiny house was 3D-printed in just one week

3D-printed architecture has evolved from futuristic concept to everyday construction technique at lightning speed – and the pace shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon. A recent example of this progress comes in the form of a non-towable tiny house that was printed in just one week.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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Valve's new VR gaming headset packs a clever high-res graphics feature

Valve – which runs the Steam game store and made the legendary Half-Life series – already makes a VR headset for hardcore gamers who care to tether themselves to a beefy PC for an immersive experience. Its new headset, the Steam Frame, is designed to make VR gaming a lot more accessible to folks who want to easily jump into their favorite titles, with some clever tech hidden inside.

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Category: Virtual Reality, Consumer Tech, Technology

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Your diabetes medication could be sabotaging your hard work

Tens of millions of people with type 2 diabetes might actually be undermining their efforts to improve their health, with researchers demonstrating that the commonly prescribed metformin blocks the cardiovascular benefits normally gained through exercise.

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Category: Diabetes, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind

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Interstellar-inspired TARS3D may be first such robot that both walks and rolls

If you want to build an actual HAL 9000, all you need is an LED, some carpentry skills, and any laptop accessing a talking AI. If you want to build your own R2D2, you’ll have a tougher job assembling a range of materials, motors, and electronics. But what if you wanted to make your own working version of TARS, that bizarre, blocky robot from Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar that looks like a stainless steel ATM with metal posts for legs sprouting from its shoulders?

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Category: Robotics, Technology

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Review: Studio Max 1 – studio cans, or just studio namesake?

So I've had these headphones for almost two weeks now. When I got them, I chucked it onto the charger until it said it was fully charged. Since then, I've worn them every single day, 95% of the time in Bluetooth mode connected to everything from my phone to my laptop to my projector. Sometimes for an hour, sometimes most of the day. And I haven't charged 'em since.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

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360-degree motor pod thruster aims to revolutionize mass marine market

British electric drive specialist Helix builds some of the most power-dense electric motors in the world. Now it's working to springboard that compact, power-packed design into a marine drive ecosystem it believes will help change the face (or at least underbody) of everyday recreational and utility boating. The company's all-new Pod Cartridge brings the e-drive components necessary to make 360-degree pod drives a widely available solution capable of increasing efficiency and boosting maneuverability across a huge market of vessels.

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Category: Marine, Transport

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The wooden office treadmill: quiet, minimalistic, and fully manual

Sitting at a desk for at least eight hours a day is the reality for most remote workers today. But what if you could keep moving while working? That’s exactly the question that inspired Johannes Kettmann, a software developer from Berlin who knows firsthand the challenge of hitting those 10,000 steps per day while working a remote desk job. The result is the Office Walker, a minimalist walking pad designed for simplicity, silence, and long-lasting durability.

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Category: Fitness & Exercise, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

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Natural molecule reverses memory loss seen in Alzheimer's disease

Boosting levels of a certain molecule that declines with age was found to restore memory and brain function in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) models – not just by improving energy metabolism, as previously thought, but by fixing RNA splicing errors that disrupt hundreds of genes crucial to neuron health.

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Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body and Mind

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MIT's injectable brain chips could treat disease without surgery

A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been refining and combining several advanced technologies over the past six years to create a revolutionary platform to treat a vast array of neurological diseases and mental illnesses. It could not only prove more effective than traditional methods, but also negate the need for complex procedures that carry their own set of risks.

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Category: Brain Health, Body and Mind

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90% of us aren’t getting this essential nutrient linked to anxiety

Scientists have identified a significant link between low levels of choline and the prevalence of anxiety disorders, suggesting that upping intake of this essential nutrient found in a range of foods – from eggs to seeds – could potentially improve symptoms of these debilitating conditions.

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