One of the tiniest campers out there still able to sleep a couple inside its hard-walled body, the Super Shorty 7 (SS-7) from Oklahoma's Badac Adventure Company is a tough trailer that's ready to tour the world behind virtually any tow vehicle. It includes a rugged all-terrain squaredrop build that can be kept cheap, simple and ultralight or upgraded into a more feature-forward micro-abode with electricity and loads of cargo-carrying capability.

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Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: teardrop trailers, Caravan, Off-road, Trailer, trailers, RV, Outdoors and Camping, Camping

A new drug from California-based pharma company Amgen, which has concluded a phase II trial, shows promise as a powerful treatment for obesity. With just a once-monthly shot of 'MariTide,' participants in the study lost as much as 16% of their body weight over the course of a year.

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Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind

Tags: Obesity, Weight Loss, Weight, GLP-1 receptor agonists

Oslo-based Rever & Drage Architects has recently completed a whimsical yet practical tiny retreat that hovers over its garden setting in Asker, Norway. Dubbed the Folly at Fair Hill, the 30-sqm (322-sq-ft) dwelling is inspired by the European concept of the folly, an often playful or artistic building without a clear purpose. It blends artistic expression with the natural landscape.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Architects, Norway, Tiny Footprint, Cabins

We've already seen antibacterial surfaces that kill microbes on contact, but scientists in the UK have recently gone a different and potentially more effective route. They've created maze-like surface patterns that keep bacteria from sticking around to establish problematic biofilm colonies.

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Category: Medical Devices, Medical Innovations, Body & Mind

Tags: University of Nottingham, Antibacterial, Surfaces

Water-based exercise not only improved muscle strength in people with chronic low back pain, but it also improved quality of life, according to a new study. Aquatic therapy could be a viable alternative for those who fear moving or exercising due to pain.

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Category: Chronic Pain, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind

Tags: Low back pain, Exercise, Muscle, Anxiety, Concordia University

Startup Valerion ended last year by claiming the crown for the most-funded projector campaign so far on Kickstarter with a bunch of affordable premium streaming projectors. We've been bathing in ultra-sharp 4K goodness recently as we tried out the VisionMaster Pro 2 model.

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Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Reviews, Projectors, Laser, 4K UHD, Google TV

Backcountry Tiny Homes knows a thing or two about maximizing living space, having been responsible for the incredibly small Acorn. Now the firm has used this experience to fit a two-bedroom model suitable for a small family into a length of just 26 ft (7.9 m).

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home

If you have a high level of interaction with patients, students, clients or the general public in your chosen work, you might be putting yourself at significant risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a large new study. And, if you also have a poor support network among your peers, it could worsen your odds.

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Category: Diabetes, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind

Tags: Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, Diabetes, Stress, Workplace, Health, Social Networking

A new immune-modulating treatment has shown promising results for treating moderate to severe eczema, delivering fast itch relief and clear skin for many patients in a clinical trial, without the common side effects associated with other therapies.

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Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind

Tags: Eczema, Atopic dermatitis, Immunotherapy, Inflammation, clinical trials

Along with the likes of Howl and Live Outdoor, Washington outdoor heating specialist Ignik Outdoors has been working to pull the wood out of the campfire for years. Now it's giving campers the option of removing open fire all together, without giving up the warmth and flickering glow of flame. Its whimsically named Skullet serves as something of a 360-degree gas fireplace for base camp while also working as a traditional stove burner that brings its own ingredient-mingling discada.

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Category: Outdoor Cooking, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Fire, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Cooking

The increase in dog ownership has seen an associated increase in dog-walking-related injuries, which can impose a substantial financial burden on the healthcare system, according to a new study. Helpfully, there are easy ways to avoid injury.

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Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind

Tags: Dogs, Walk, musculoskeletal, Injuries

If you were, like us, were under the impression that two-legged dinosaurs like those in the Velociraptor genus were pacy beasts that could zip across the ground at around 40 mph, a team of researchers has some bad news. A new study suggests they were much, much slower than previously thought.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Liverpool John Moores University, Dinosaurs, locomotion, Running, History, Birds, Animal science

People with an autoimmune disease have almost twice the risk of developing an affective disorder, which includes depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder, according to a new study. The findings provide more evidence of a link between inflammation and mental illness.

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Category: Mental Health, Brain Health, Body & Mind

Tags: Autoimmune, Inflammation, mental health, University of Edinburgh

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a way to 'supercharge' vaccines to the extent that just a single dose can provide strong protection from HIV.

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Category: Body & Mind

Tags: Vaccines, HIV, HIV and AIDS, MIT

For the last few years, Italian engineers have been working on a humanoid robot for emergency response applications. The iRonCub3 has jets on its back and fire-breathers on its arms, and has now achieved stable take-off and hover for the first time.

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Category: AI & Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Humanoid, Robots, Jet+Pack, Jets, Prototype, 2025 Updates

A new study has found that for older adults receiving in-home care, loneliness doesn’t increase the risk of death. The findings contradict much of the existing research into the link between loneliness and health.

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

Tags: elderly home care, Mortality, Risk factors, Loneliness, University of Waterloo

Though Shenzhen-based e-mobility outfit InMotion does have a bunch of two-wheeled transport solutions in its webshop, the company is probably best known for its championing of monowheel adventuring. Now a new flagship e-unicycle is ready to conquer the city.

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Category: Urban Transport, Transport

Tags: Electric Vehicles, Unicycle, Personal Mobility Vehicle, Monowheel

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been commissioned to design an entire new city in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The Khalid Bin Sultan City will transform the hot desert-like landscape with a large oasis-like park at its center.

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Category: Architecture, Technology

Tags: Building and Construction, UAE, Zaha Hadid, City

Exposure to common heavy metals has been linked to the prevalence of ADHD, according to a new study. It builds on existing research that has found that there's a strong association between certain metals like lead and copper and increased cases of both ADHD and how serious the condition's symptoms are.

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Category: ADHD & Autism, Brain Health, Body & Mind

Tags: ADHD, Pollution, Metals, Epigenetics, Genetics, Neurological, Neurodegenerative conditions, Brain, Neuroscience

Imperial Outdoors has its roots in ice fishing trailers built for stalwart fishermen facing some of the harshest winter conditions the United States can dole out. So it knows a few things about speccing out a mobile living pod for cold, bleak weather. With its all-new Outback Series, it puts that experience into a tow-anywhere off-road squaredrop built to thrive in four seasons' worth of weather and ground conditions.

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Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: teardrop trailers, Caravan, Off-road, Off-grid, Camping, Trailer, trailers