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Nissan just revealed details on what to expect with its upcoming 2026 Leaf electric vehicle (EV), and it's quite a step up from the current model year.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Nissan, Nissan LEAF
Tiny houses are usually a compromise between livability and portability, but this model offers the best of both thanks to its clever design. Its loft roofs provide full standing height in its bedrooms when stationary, and fold down to allow for easier travel.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Micro-House, Tiny Footprint, House, Home, Building and Construction
Even without noses, octopuses are able to determine which food sources are good to eat and which have gone past their prime simply by touching them. The secret, says a new study, lies with surface microbiomes and some very sensitive suckers.
Tags: Octopus, molecular biology, Microbes, Microbiome, Harvard
Chevrolet has gone and packed more horses into its fiery new Corvette ZR1X than any production model in the lineup's 72-year history. With a mighty 1,250 hp, the electrified all-wheel drive monster can go from 0-60 mph (0-100 km/h) in under 2 seconds.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Hypercar, General Motors, Chevrolet, Corvette, Hybrid
A protein found in our cells has emerged as a secret weapon against biological aging, acting like a glue to repair damaged DNA and ward off neurological degeneration including that seen in motor neuron, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
Category: Aging Well, Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: Macquarie University, Age-Related, anti-aging, Brain, Cognitive functioning, Cells, Parkinson's Disease, Disease
If you like portable yet capable camp stoves, then you'll probably like the FireNest. Sporting an all-titanium body, it folds flat when not in use, and can be quickly assembled to let you sear, grill, boil, or just plain ol' cook over an open flame.
Category: Outdoors
Tags: Kickstarter, Titanium, Camping, Stoves, Folding, Modular
Variable Valve Timing isn’t a new concept in motorcycle engines. The likes of BMW and Yamaha have been using this setup in their motorcycles for a while now. Even Suzuki itself implemented it on the 2017 GSX-R1000 engine, borrowing the system from its GSX-RR MotoGP bike.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Psilocybin, the active compound in "magic mushrooms," has seen a surge in medical research over the past few years, particularly for its potential in treating psychiatric and neurological conditions like depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Category: Psychedelics, Medical Innovations, Body & Mind
Tags: Alcohol, Psychology, Psychedelic Medicine
In a perfect world, everything you try to clamp in a vise would have nice straight sides. The world isn't perfect, though, which is where the Tivise comes in. It's a modern-day fractal vise with jaws that adapt to the unique shape of whatever's placed inside of it.
Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle
Tags: Kickstarter, Tools, Titanium
More than a decade ago, a startup launched on Kickstarter to fund an automated guitar tuner called the Roadie. Now the company has returned to the platform with the smarter, faster, smoother and more powerful fourth generation.
Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Kickstarter, Tuner, Guitar, Automation
Teenage Engineering has put its unique stamp on budget and high-end audio gear over the years, but has also ventured outside of its box on occasion. The latest example of that is an electric moped/scooter called the epa-1, developed with fellow Swedes Vässla Micromobility.
Category: Urban Transport, Transport
Tags: Scooter, Moped, Modular, Electric Motorcycles, Electric Vehicles
Talk about thinking small: researchers at Harvard University have devised a new way to implant flexible bioelectronic devices in the embryos of frogs, mice, and lizards, enabling them to monitor brain activity as these creatures develop.
Tags: Cyborg, Brain, Brain activity, Harvard, Bioengineering
For the first time, researchers have identified a protein that represses the activity of energy-burning brown fat. The discovery opens the door to developing treatments for the extreme weight loss, muscle wasting, and malnutrition seen in some types of cancer.
Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind
Tags: Brown fat, Brown adipose tissue, Cancer, metabolism, University of Barcelona
The company best known for churning out affordable smartphones and other consumer electronics – that may or may not be reporting back to the CCP – just made the fastest electric sedan on the planet to lap the famed Nürburgring Nordschleife racetrack.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Xiaomi, Electric Vehicles, McMurtry Automotive, Rimac Automobili, Mercedes-AMG, Porsche, Nurburgring
It's not your underarm sweat that stinks, it's the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by bacteria as they break down the fatty acids in that sweat. A new device is claimed to prevent the stink without the use of deodorant, by killing those bacteria with plasma.
Category: Medical Devices, Medical Innovations, Body & Mind
Tags: Indiegogo, Hanyang University, Odor, Plasma
It turns out that donkeys are exceptionally good at repelling deer ticks. Now, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMA) have harnessed that ability to create a natural bug repellent that proved as effective as DEET at fighting the pests.
Category: Outdoors
Tags: Donkey, University of Massachusetts, Animals, Animal science, Tick, Parasites, Lyme disease
Mosquitoes have long been among humanity’s most formidable adversaries, plaguing us for thousands of years and causing more deaths than any other animal. With traditional control methods facing mounting resistance, researchers are seeking innovative ways to combat mosquito-borne disease.
Tags: Mosquito, Fungus, Malaria, Infections, University of Maryland, Pests
Back in 2014, French e-mobility company AEMotion set out to "combine the agility of a motorcycle with the safety profile of a four-wheeled vehicle." After much prototyping, its two-person tilting creation is up for pre-order ahead of production next year.
Category: Urban Transport, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Quadricycle, Tilting-Vehicle, city car
Some 14 years after we first reported on it – and following multiple challenges and false starts – the ambitious plan to create a self-filtering floating public pool in a New York City river is now finally under construction.
Category: Architecture, Technology
In 2025, around 24 million Americans are estimated to suffer from sleep apnea, and around 90% of these cases are undiagnosed. Now, a groundbreaking new study warns that this is going to rapidly increase as the planet warms.
Category: Sleep, Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: Flinders University, Sleep, Sleep deprivation, Heart attack, Stroke, Climate Crisis, Global Warming