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A new breath-based sensor from researchers at Penn State could soon offer an easy, pain-free, quick way to diagnose diabetes. The sensor was created through a technique that basically toasts a polymer until it turns into porous graphene.
Category: Diabetes, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Diabetic, Diagnostic devices, Breath, Pennsylvania State University
While machines have mastered both sight and sound, the sense of taste has proved harder to digitize. We've seen the creation of highly specialized artificial tongues targeting sweetness, chocolate, beer, wine or whisky, but now researchers in Beijing have developed a more generalist graphene oxide “tongue” that doesn’t just detect chemicals, it learns them. During laboratory tests, the system identified sour, salty, bitter, and sweet with nearly 99% accuracy, demonstrating that taste can be captured in digital form.
Plant-based microbeads made from everyday ingredients like green tea and seaweed have helped mice shed weight by trapping fats in the gut, reports a new study published in Cell Biomaterials. Researchers see these microbeads as a potential “structured, drug-free therapy” to treat obesity, with fewer side effects than the current medications.
Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Weight, Weight Loss, Obesity
Amid ongoing debate about red meat’s role in human health, a new risk has emerged. Researchers have shown that a gut-bacterial byproduct of eating red meat and other animal products is linked to the development and progression of abdominal aortic aneurysms – particularly in older men.
Category: Heart Disease, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Cleveland Clinic, Cardiovascular disease, Age-Related, Gut Bacteria, Gut health, Blood, Blood Pressure
Sweden's historic Kiruna Church needed to be relocated due to an expanding iron ore mine in the area. Rather than demolishing it or trying to carefully disassemble it for the move, the decision was made to simply jack it up and wheel it across town.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Building and Construction, Church, Engineering, Kiruna, Sweden
We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving surgeries. That's all well and good. The space part is certainly cool, sure ... but it doesn't look like us. It doesn't feel human.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Tags: Dance, Humanoid, Tesla Robot, Figure, Aldebaran Robotics, Evolutionary robotics
We started the week off by previewing the Ford Nugget High Roof camper van, and we're closing it out with all the details about the adorable small (but high) van that now sits atop Ford's camper lineup. Designed with winter road tripping in mind, the new Ford Nugget High Roof is a versatile year-round mini-adventure machine. While priced above an equivalent long-wheelbase Nugget pop-top, the Nugget High Roof still rolls to market at under €85,500 (US$100,000).
Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Ford, Campervan, RV, dusseldorf-caravan-salon-2025, Camping, Westfalia-Automotive, Outdoors and Camping
A decades-old scientific controversy and a small bench-top apparatus at the University of British Columbia (UBC) could be the key to more efficient fusion reactors by increasing the chances of a nuclear reaction occurring.
Category: Energy, Technology
Tags: University of British Columbia, Nuclear Fusion, Nuclear
Waterskiing, knee boarding, and wake surfing (aka wakeboarding) are popular water-sports. They can be done on any body of water that is large enough to accommodate a relatively fast-moving boat. MasterCraft boats can do all three, but specialize in wake surfing.
Category: Outdoors
Tags: Boat, Boating, Water Sports, Reviews
As lightweight, power-dense axial-flux electric motor topology shows its ability to be a dominant force in the auto market, and flashes early signs of inherent superiority for the skies, it's also quietly making some inroads in the boating segment. The new Falcon series from Denmark's EPTechnologies (EPT) has debuted as one of the most powerful electric outboards on water, and it's well lighter than the competition thanks to its slim, axial-flux orientation. The Falcon is smart, too, using a free-rotating propeller to provide improved maneuverability and handling.
Astronomers have discovered a new celestial object, a compact radio beacon located in the galaxy NGS 4945, about 12 million light-years away. Its light is polarized at an almost impossible level that hints at a perfectly aligned magnetic field. The object has been nicknamed "Punctum"; it’s a signal so clean and precise that it stands out like a lighthouse beam cutting through fog.
The Cabana tiny house squeezes a lot of house into a length of just 20 ft (6 m). Despite its compact dimensions, it includes two bedrooms, plus a flexible room that can be used as an office or a third bedroom.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Now more than ever, it's important to get your news from sources you trust – not just from whatever the first hits are that come up in a Google search. That's why Google has launched a Preferred Sources function within its new News on Search feature … and you can use it with our site!
Category: Telecommunications, Technology
Tags: News, Internet, Google Home
Boston Dynamics probably has the most show-offy robots on the planet right now, and the company's latest video shows that its robodog, Spot, is no exception. Spoiler alert: he nails a septuple back flip that is wildly impressive.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Tags: Boston Dynamics, Robots
It's still a niche, but with projects like Wimberly Springs and Wolf Ranch, 3D-printed housing continues to grow in popularity in the USA. The latest example of this consists of two 3D-printed homes in Colorado that showcase the impressive speed and resilience of the burgeoning construction technology.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Building and Construction, 3D Printing, House, Home
Scientists have identified a protein that acts as a kind of traffic controller for fat inside cells, revealing a mechanism that could help explain how the body regulates energy storage and why things go wrong in metabolic disease. The discovery provides a new avenue for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes
Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: University of New South Wales, Fat cells, Protein, Obesity, Type 2 diabetes, Organelle, Metabolic syndrome, metabolism
German manufacturer SkyWind has just become the first company to receive full certification for its compact wind turbine, the NG. The small but mighty wind spinners are easy to install atop home rooftops to supplement grid power with clean energy.
Category: Energy, Technology
Tags: Wind Power, Wind turbine, Green+Energy, Wind-powered
Land Rover didn't always build luxurious, tech-laden Defenders. There was a time when the British carmaker purpose-designed these SUVs for African safaris. As a tribute to that history, Oshe Automotive has created a stunning retro-inspired custom Defender.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Land Rover, defender, Off-road, Pickup, Truck, SUV, Custom
When someone collapses from a heart attack, chances of survival fall 10% with every passing minute without defibrillation. Now, scientists from one of the most advanced healthcare hubs on the planet have come up with a novel way to reach cardiac arrest events faster – using food delivery riders as first responders.
Category: Heart Disease, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: National Taiwan University, Delivery drone, Emergencies, cardiac+arrest, Heart attack, Cardiovascular disease
For the last couple of years, French e-mobility company Cixi has been working on a three-wheeled vehicle called Vigoz that's based on its chainless pedaling system. A skeletal prototype has been tested to 100 km/h, and now the company has revealed the latest production design.
Category: Urban Transport, Transport
Tags: Trike, Recumbent, Cars, Electric Vehicles, Pedal-powered, Tilting-Vehicle, Three-Wheeler